The Sega mark III' Hokuto no ken cartridges artwork
Hokuto no Ken is one of the minigames in Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. It is a side-scrolling single-plane beat 'em up game released for the Master System in 1986 based on the manga and anime series Fist of the North Star (known as Hokuto no Ken in Japan).
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The player takes control of Kenshiro who sets out to rescue his fiancée Yuria from his brother Raoh. The game is composed of six left-to-right side-scrolling stages in which Kenshiro faces different types of underlings (depending on the stage), facing the occasional sub-boss at midpoints of certain stages. Keeping true to the original source material, underlings violently explode upon being punched or kicked. At the end of each stage, Ken must confront the stage's boss, each being susceptible to only one type of attack. The player must exploit their opponent's weakness and use it to finish the boss off.
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- When originally released internationally in 1986, the game's content was altered to remove all elements based on the Fist of the North Star license, and was instead released under the name "Black Belt". The game later received a 3D remake for PlayStation 2 in 2004, released only in Japan. The version in Lost Paradise is based on the Japanese version of the original.
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