Publisher: Xing Entertainment
Developer: Daft
Release Date: 9/30/1999
Date Played: 3/8/2018
Region: Japan
Time Played: 20 minutes
What’d you think?: I don’t know exactly what K-1 is. It seems like some sort of mixed martial art league, but it might be karate-specific. This game apparently has all the big names (from the late 90s) of the sport — and it’s also got only 3 input buttons — punch, kick, and special, plus the arrows to move you around. The fighting is shallow, the content is niche, but I think it was fun? There was a really in-depth AI editor, and the option to do COM vs COM matches so if you had a fantasy K-1 fight in mind, you could make a very sloppy approximation of that vision come true here.
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMiSrUzmdag
