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4.50 average rating based on 8 ratings
Yes, I know that saying that an almos 40 years old game is the most important game of the same year that Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur's Gate came out can be a little controversial, but I'm not joking. This is an almost perfect package, a full study of what makes Karateka such an important game and ALL the context we need to understand its development and the state of the industry when it came out.
You can read my full article in spanish here. It's not a review per se so no score.

I NEED more games like this. The industry needs them. Let's hope this Gold Master Series will be a long lived one.
This is amazing. It manages to squeeze a gripping narrative from the act of parsing old docs, it’s really good in telling its story, it lets you play with prototypes and put your hands on stuff that is usually not accessible, it contains well emulated classics and also adds two very good modern remakes, that let you play in a more welcoming way games from forty years ago. It’s full of great ideas and unexpected ways of deconstructing an old game. I hope they will make dozens of these, if only because it seems like it could be a very versatile approach, with very different ways of doing a similar thing. Ah, also, playing this after having read Replay, Jordan Mechner's autobiographical graphic novel, was sooo good. A great companion piece.
I really like this historical "docugame", which has the same format as the excellent Atari 50. I will buy any of these Digital Eclipse documentary games. I do think that in the future they could apply some higher production values to the video interviews with folks -- the Zoom recordings can be kinda hokey. I think that the "form" and their workflow and techniques for creating these is still getting hammered out, so I presume that they will only get better as they (if they) make more of these. I'd like to see them maybe partner with NoClip for the video portions.