Lets get a few things out of the way before we continue - this is Kickboxing, not Karate, and yes that is a SNES game box. I couldn\'t find a Genesis one. Oh,and the release date was actually 1993. Let\'s ignore that, shall we?Moving on, Best of the Best Championship Karate, the natural evolution of Andre\' Panza\'s Kickboxing for Turbografx 16, and Amiga. It was released for a wide variety of systems, but never truly embraced. The game had nice graphics digitized from motion capture of Andre\' Panza himself, nice sound effects and inoffensive if sparse music.\n\nIt has it\'s bad points. Most often talked about is it\'s unique control system, but many people don\'t realize it was adapted to work with two buttons only. Based on this it succeeds fairly well at delivering precision though the input does tend to be a bit sticky feeling. There is only one single player mode, but it has various training regimens, the ability to customize your look and assign attacks from a pool of 55 available moves in any configuration you see fit, it even has a few surprises along the way. The opponents you face vary in stats and the moves they favor, and act intelligently enough to give you a decent challenge. The multiplayer is basically the same as single, but given the material I couldn\'t guess what other options could have been added.\n\nThe game features an innovative fighting system with various reactions and damages based where and when a hit occurs, an interesting counter system and even has super attacks. The system may be intimidating for a new player, but allows for both comebacks and lightening quick knockouts.\n\nIt could use better controls and bells and whistles, but there was no finer full contact mixed martialarts simulation for the time. andre, bang, best, big, blitz, brain, criminally, electro, game, games, karate, kickboxing, Loricel, overlooked, panza, video