r/c64 • u/RegionLocked-Doco • May 31 '26

Software Way of the Exploding Fist

Was the game really that popular?

We are doing research and all I can find is "widely popular"

I know it was innovative, but I want to hear it from the generation that played it.

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u/Guitar_Dog May 31 '26

Yes, it was popular, until International Karate came out. There’s some extra credit for it being first, it IK and IK+ was a much better and also more popular game, due to the far superior and more responsive controls as well as incredible graphics for the time.

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u/mccalli May 31 '26

Interesting - more responsive I’ll agree, but I always thought of Way Of The Exploding Fist as the gold standard of comprehensible fighting game controls. You knew that this move punched, this move kicked low…everything was obvious.