Sai Combat
Sai Combat is a 1986 fighting video game published by Mirrorsoft for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
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Sai Combat
- Date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Mirrorsoft
- Language
- English
- Genre
- fighting game
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Sai Combat is a 1986 fighting video game published by Mirrorsoft for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
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• Title — Sai Combat • Developer — David T Clark • Publisher — Mirrorsoft • Platforms — Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum • Released — 1986 • Genre — Fighting • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer
Gameplay
Gameplay
Sai Combat is a one-on-one fighting game. The sais in the game don't refer to the stabbing weapons but rather long wooden poles. The player has to defeat eight opponents before becoming the Sai Master. In order to win a fight, the opponent has to be knocked down three times. The game includes a two-player multiplayer mode.
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Reception
Aktueller Software Markt called it the best fighting game on the Spectrum. Amtix called it "[a] competent fighting game that's worth looking at". The reviewers compared the game to The Way of the Tiger and The Way of the Exploding Fist. Computer and Video Games said the game is "good fun" and "graphically excellent". Crash said the game is better than International Karate but not as good The Way of the Exploding Fist.
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* • Sai Combat at Spectrum Computing
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- 1.Mirrorsoft. Sai Combat. Game Cassette (ZX Spectrum). 1986.
- 2.Newsfield Publications Ltd. Reviews - Sai Combat. Amtix. 10. 21. August 1986.
- 3.Kleimann, Manfred. Action Games - Sensationelle Geschichte!. Aktueller Software Markt. Tronic-Verlag. 5/86. 7. June-July 1986.
- 4.Newsfield Publications Ltd. Reviews - Sai Combat. Crash. 28. 122. May 1986.
- 5.Future plc. Software Reviews - Sai Combat. Computer and Video Games. 56. 24. June 1986.
- 6.Future plc. Software Reviews - Sai Combat. Computer and Video Games. 58. 26. August 1986.
- 7.Gilbert, John. Software - Sai Combat. Sinclair User. EMAP. 50. 40. May 1986.
- 8.Game review, Computer & Video Games issue 56, June 1986, page 44
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