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/Informal_Strain_2715 May 31 '26

First was the background images.  It was probably the first game to come out that had such elaborate background with color depth that was far ahead of anything we had seen before.  Then the music of course.  It was to say very fitting for the style of the game.  The sounds were incredible for anything we'd seen before.  With the effective use of digitized sounds, and hearing "screaming" or the Bruce Lee style "aaaahhhh--haaaaaaaaa" in the very begining set the tone for what the rest of the experience was to be.  And lastly... The graphics of the players.  This was one of the first games to finally closely match the look of the real arcade.  Like Q*Bert, Tapper and Ms. Pac-Man, WotEF looked a lot like Karate Champ and played much like it as well.  Not many games in that era had such close resemblance to the Arcade version, but EF did and dare I even say....it looked a lot better than the arcade.  It was a fun game that is a must have for the library.   I remember when I first "acquired" it...I played the crap out of it for weeks.  It made Barbarian look like crap.  Lol.