Panza Kick Boxing

STORY / GAMEPLAY
The game features both single and multi player mode. The single player mode also offers a career game. You start off with a kick boxer having some random - low - physical capacities, namely strength, resistance and reflex. You can train your boxer to improve these stats. You will improve your resistance by skipping-rope, strength by weightlifting and finally your reflexes by kicking moving targets. However, when using keyboard controls, the training sessions are very difficult. Training and boxing opponents makes you stronger and enables you to challenge better boxers. The moving list is huge and count 120 moves/positions available, all digitized by the famous triple world champion Andre Panza! There the usual low-kicks, high-kicks, punches, back-fists and a lot more to use. Ultimately, you can challenge the best boxer, André Panza himself. The referee is a little annoying as he grunts whenever a decision is called and this sound does become very annoying after a while.
Panza Kick Boxing was the best kick boxing simulation around, and worth every penny back in the days.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
Panza Kick Boxing features 1.5MB of graphics files! The PC version runs only on VGA, EGA and CGA graphics, offering really nice visuals, though the color palette even in VGA mode are limited to 16. The graphics are vivid with smoothly animated sprites. As with all versions, what is really impressive is the number of available moves for each fighter, all of which are nicely animated! According to the developers, it took two years work to digitize all the blows, falls, foils and to recreate more than 120 combat positions, with the assistance of Andre Panza himself! Pretty impressive that is.
The game supports only AdLib sound card, offering a nice main menu tune, but apparently the sampled sound effects are played via the PC speaker (as no SoundBlaster is supported).