Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Video Game of the Week: The Karate Kid (LJN)
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Since I missed out on the Nintendo era (had a Colecovision and then no video games until I got my first computer in 1998!) I can't speak to this game from personal experience but I do know LJN has a reputation of making absolutely dreadful games. A close friend of mine was a Nintendo fanatic as a kid and says she still has nightmares about the movie tie-in games she played - all published by LJN!
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