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Black Belt
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Japanese players knew this game as Hokuto no Ken. Sega built it for the Mark III around the Fist of the North Star manga, and when it came West the license was stripped out, the hero renamed Riki and the graphics redrawn to match. The result is Black Belt, a 1986 martial arts brawler with an unusual secret history and an early credit for programmer Yuji Naka, years before he helped create Sonic the Hedgehog.
The action is simple and immediate. Riki walks a single plane of side-scrolling street, punching, kicking and launching flying kicks as fighters come at him from both directions. Most enemies go down to one well-timed strike, so the rhythm is all about spacing and timing: face the right way, hit at the right moment, keep moving forward.
Where Black Belt gets memorable is the end of each stage. Instead of a boss simply walking on screen, the game cuts to a one-on-one duel, a close-up face-off that plays like an early, stripped-down versus fighter dropped into the middle of a beat 'em up. Arriving a year before Street Fighter reached arcades, that was an exciting change of pace, and the duels grow tougher as Riki works his way toward the final confrontation.
The Hokuto no Ken connection did not end here, either. Sega later gave its Mega Drive Hokuto no Ken game the same treatment, and it reached Western players as Last Battle. Black Belt is where that odd little lineage began, and it is a fun look at Sega's early action design with a bit of Yuji Naka's work hiding under the renamed hero.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1986
- Publisher
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- Genre
- Point-and-click, Beat 'em up, Adventure, Arcade
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
Black Belt is a side-scrolling single-plane beat 'em up game released for the Master System in 1986. It is a localization of the Japanese Mark III game, Hokuto no Ken, based on the manga and anime series of the same name (which would later be published as Fist of the North Star in English). The export version was released without the Hokuto no Ken license, forcing graphic alterations to the game. Black Belt was one of programmer Yuji Naka's early games prior to his involvement in Sonic the Hedgehog.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayBlack Belt on Master System
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Master System
Black Belt
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Master System
Black Belt
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