Traditional motion recreation Karateka is being was a playable documentary

Final 12 months, Digital Eclipse launched Atari 50, a sprawling, interactive tour by way of Atari’s lengthy historical past. I described it as “a cross between an interactive documentary and a digital museum exhibition,” and it actually set a brand new bar for retro recreation collections. Now, the studio is tackling one other undertaking: Karateka, the sport Jordan Mechner made earlier than the enduring Prince of Persia.

Referred to as The Making of Karateka, the brand new undertaking sounds very similar to Atari 50, solely centered on a particular recreation. It consists of “pixel-perfect variations” of the unique Karateka releases and early prototypes you may truly play, together with a bunch of design paperwork and documentary-style video options. There’s even a brand-new remastered model of the motion recreation. “What they’ve constructed round my 1984 kicking-punching debut is a lot greater than a recreation remaster, I’m nonetheless attempting to wrap my thoughts round it,” Mechner wrote on his private weblog.

The studio additionally says that the sport is simply the primary in a brand new assortment it’s calling the “Gold Grasp Collection.” Mainly, the concept is to offer plenty of influential video games the Atari 50 therapy.

“The Gold Grasp Collection is one thing we’ve been planning for a very long time right here at Digital Eclipse – independently-produced tasks that commemorate key designers, studios, and video games that modified the world,” Digital Eclipse’s Chris Kohler wrote in a publish asserting the sequence. “Our mission is to raise these video games, presenting them of their absolute best gentle whereas placing them of their correct historic context, an strategy we’ve dubbed the ‘interactive documentary.’”

Given how impactful Karateka was for motion video games, it’s an excellent place to start out. The Making of Karateka doesn’t presently have a launch date, but it surely’s slated to launch this 12 months on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and the Nintendo Change.