Best of the Best: Championship Karate
Best of the Best: Championship Karate (also known as Super Kick Boxing and The Kick Boxing) is a kick boxing game that features black belt kick boxing masters. The object is to win the kick boxing championship by defeating an array of kick boxing masters in a series of fighting matches. The Sega Genesis version is one of the few games to offer support for the Sega Activator motion controller.
| Best of the Best: Championship Karate | |
|---|---|
 NES version cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Loriciels Movie Software (NES) |
| Publisher(s) | Electro Brain |
| Designer(s) | Pascal Jarry |
| Programmer(s) | Pascal Jarry Tony Huguenotte (Game Boy) Carlo Perconti (NES) Nicolas Massonnat (SNES) |
| Artist(s) | Marco De Flores Christophe Perrotin Isabelle Maury |
| Composer(s) | Michel Winogradoff |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, NES, SNES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive |
| Release | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
The game was originally released in 1990 in Europe as André Panza Kick Boxing for various computers as well as the TurboGrafx-16.
Martial artist/actor Ron Yuan stated in a 1994 interview that "I know a lot of pure gamers will disagree, but the best SNES fighting game from a purely technical martial arts point of view is Best of the Best. It didn't get much notoriety, but my friends and I know martial arts, and they go nuts whenever we play."[1]