Fond memories of this game from when I was around 7 or 8. I'll never forget the first time I almost beat it.... I was literally a hit away from defeating the final boss, and I wanted my dad to be there to see it but he was outside in the backyard. I went to quickly hit pause, and accidentally hit the power button instead 🤦‍♂️😭 Absolutely devastating for a kid that age 😂

Ahh Christmas morning 1987 tuning in the tv to finally see this game running, what a magical moment.

Wow..brings back so many memories when my brother and I used to sit in our room and play this game. Ahhh..the 80s..how I missed those times.

I loved this game so much as a kid, that it inspired me to achieve a Black Belt in Karate, but I gave it back once they told me Black Belts couldn't actually make people explode into 100 pieces.

Easily one of the most underrrated games of the 8 bit era.

My favorite Mastersystem game of all time!!!

The OST for the bosses is so damn good... holy shit

My favourite game as a kid lmao, so many memories flooding back watching this

In the next FIST OF THE NORTH STAR game, Riki should be an unlock-able outfit. EPIC

This game is ingrained into my memory, such a challenge to beat back then and I would have never guessed it was actually Fist of the North Star. Always loved this one!

I love how you can still tell it was originally a Hokuto no Ken game from how the enemies all explode on death

Like how Rita cheats with a hidden health bar... Then Wang quits before he’s defeated.

Absolutely loved this game as a kid what always stood out for me was the boss scene music! Still my favourite video games music to this day.

Every one reading this is cool.

Quando o 8-Bits atinge a perfeição ! Muitos falam de Sonic e Phantasy Star, mas os melhores jogos de Todos os Tempos do Master System são R-Type e o Black Belt aqui no vídeo. O Jogos de Verão (California Games) e o Out Run também merecem menção honrosa

Litterally first game I ever played when I was 6 years old. Good lord this brings back memories.

I use to play this game every day when I had the Sega Mater System as a kid. I played it so much, the threw up off the enemies falling apart when you hit them. I love this game.

I love the boss music in this game.

best sound track of master system 8 bits ever!!

If I remember correctly, there's an Easter egg bonus at the ending of the title screen. When you're reading the end story text, before the music ends, you have to continuously hold both the 1+2 buttons while going counterclockwise on the directional pad to unlock the bonus levels. The bonus is that you get to fight all 6 bosses again.

Until I found this game just now, all I could remember about this was the boss fight song. I’m talking 30 years of the song randomly popping into my head for no reason!

This was originally a Fist of the north star game. And to that I have only one thing to say. YOU WA SHOCK.

Black Belt on the Sega Master System was very difficult to complete as a kid. I got to the 2nd to last boss, but was defeated and never managed to get back there. So it's great to finally see the game's ending. Thanks.

I love how the reskinned graphics make Spade look like a chef.

Oni was such a pain.

I loved this game as a kid but it used to always kick my ass. Glad I finally got to beat it for once.

yet more gaming goodness from Team Cubex/LP, this time courtesy of JagOfTroy! Riki: "You...are already..." SEGA U.S. legal excecs: "don'tcha DARE finish that sentence! you want Tetsuo Hara suing our asses left & right?"

This was my jammmm as a kid! Spent soooo much time playing this.

this game marked a great era and became little know along the years but unforgettable by martial arts enthusiasts like me Black Belt is an electronic fighting / action game for Master System 1986, American version of a game based on the Hokuto no Ken manga. In this game the main character, the karate fighter Riki (replacing the protagonist of the original, Kenshiro) should advance in 5 different stages, fighting a gang of bandits and facing at the end of each phase a master. At the end of the game, you challenge the last master, Wang (Raoh), and then you win, save your girlfriend Kyoko (Yuria) who was captured by the bandit gang. For those who played at the time was unforgettable this game that was one of the precursors of "Street Fighter" and "Mortal Kombat." in the middle of the stages were sub-chiefs, who were enemies a little stronger than normal but weaker than bosses, ranging from 1 to 4 per phase. deserves never to be forgotten

loved this when I was a tiny child haha I was also watching fist of the north star and never knew this was a game based on it even with the exploding bad guys 😂

This game brings back so much memories I remember it took me ages to defeat Rita.

For those wondering who the bosses are supposed to be: Ryu: Shin Hawk: The Colonel Gonta: The Devil (New Sprite) Rita: Souther Wang: Raoh

Man, the memories. I remember being stuck on Oni forever. Back when there was no Internet and you had to struggle to figure that stuff out yourself.

The rapid fire punches after defeating the boss plus the outro music are 80's karate/ninja movie epic

I think can possibly say this is where Street Fighter came from. But without a doubt this is one one best games on Sega.

I’m now 41 and I still remember playing this as a 6 year old.

It's been over 35 years since I played this game. I recall such elation finally beating the game.I think it took me like 3 weeks playing to figure out how to beat all those bosses and sub bosses. So hard. And so fun. Then I played the game with my action figures which was even more fun. I recall using Quick Kick and Tomax as my stand ins for Riki. I alternated them. Gi-Joe action figures made such great stand ins so many non Gi-Joe related characters. I even took them apart to make hybrids that looked more like whatever character. Then I got home-economically creative making capes and costumes out of left over cloth and clothes I found lying around the house. Duct tape, electrical tape, and amything else to dress up and costume action figures. The 80's were the best time. And I was realistic about everything. Very often the good guy/guy's didn't win. Sometimes all but one of the good guy's got killed and the bad guy's got away with their crimes. And sometimes the good guy kills too many bsd guy's and becomes evil. And occasionally an evil guy finds his evil baddies went too far and killed Mutt's puppy Junkyard..... And Storm Shadow looks into the distance and realizes "I'm fighting with the wrong people. And decides I must fight Evil Cobra by myself agaisnt all odds to protect animals. I had a good childhood.

I played it before knowing it was the western version of hokuto no Ken for Sega mark 3.. And I didnt understand why beaten enemies become pieces, the strange death of bosses, the last one standing with rising one hand.. After a while I watched the anime, red the manga and realized that this game was hokuto no Ken.. Great game..

As a kid I didn't understand why the last boss raised his fist until waaay later upon watching and finding out this is fist of the north star lol.

My favorite master system game in the action category.. music is so dope, game play is spot on, and exploding dudes.. F yeah

I remember my Sega Master System came with Hang-On and Safari Hunt built into the console. But this was the first cartridge I ever had for it. A friend gave it to me.

I’m in my early 40’s, drinking bourbon past midnight on a work night, searching old SMS clips to take me back to simpler times. Just like Uncle Rico, I’d buy a mail order time machine to take me back, all the way back to 1987. I had my whole life ahead of me. Now to see what Opa-Opa and Space Harrier have been up to…

I used to rock this game out as a kid! Love this game!

Master System foi meu primeiro video game lá em 1996. Amava jogar esse jogo e tbm o Sonic que vinha na memória. Eu chamava esse jogo de "karate". Era dificil demais. Eu e meu primo aprendemos na raça a vencer cada boss. Amei cada minuto que pude jogar ele. Só lembranças maravilhosas.

Used to get in the zone with some of these great games, anybody remember a master card game called Transbot or Ghost House?

Dang Kenshiro/Riki can moonwalk excellently such is the way of Hokuto Shin Ken.

One of my most beloved games when i was a kid. beat this so many times.

Black Belt is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING

This game was so much better than NES Kung Fu. Much more game play, better music, more challenging, better graphics, and the boss levels were much more engaging and fun. Go Sega on this black belt game!

I really like how the enemies break appart after they take a damage hit.

I've played this game when I was about 10. It was so magical and I had a lot of fun at this time...

another classic from my childhood

This man's kicks cause others to explode, he must be stopped.

Even back then I was like "This seems suspiciously like something else."

This was my first game of Sega Master System. It came along with the console

i enjoy in my childhood, now im my 40 music sound like yesterday, what a nostalgic, i travel to past!!

I love how the bad guys look less like menacing street thugs and more like fussy, power-walking grandpas waddling over to their grandkids to slap them upside the head for touching their tv remotes. "Oooooh, I'm gonna getcha!"

I used to play this game when I was like 6-8yo... The furthest I ever got was the Rita Boss at the end of stage 5, around the 18:00 mark of this video... I tried so hard to beat this game, but I never knew until now how close I came... This was a really tough game for a little kid.

Man...a typical 8 bit game. Some childhood memories

It was such a special thing to make it to the end of the round and see an end boss that youve never seen before. Then you had to spend countless times trying to figure out how to beat them.

The music is everything

I couldn't ever beat Oni. His defense and attack pattern was pretty tight. And as a dumb kid, I never sorted it out. The one playing in this video lays it out pretty clearly.

One of two games that introduced me to the Master System console, the other being the classic Space Harrier! Damn you Oni at the time, not knowing his cheesy punching trick and the unlimited lives one too!

Esse foi meu primeiro videogame e Black Belt foi o segundo jogo que eu fiz final na minha vida,eita saudade daquele tempo eu me lembro que quando fechei ele fiquei pulando na rua de alegria

I see this, it almost makes me want to cry... what a time we live in... games used to be supplemented by our imagination... today, people complain because the games aren't at 60fps with ray tracing... not to mention this wonderful soundtrack.

I'm still in awe at how kenshiro turned into riki...

I loved this game as a kid. Wish they would re issue it or reboot it

Black Belt is Legendary with Excellent action .💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

4:14 Bruce Lee incarnation right here :D -btw, this is like a Super Data East Kung Fu like game! very nice! never heard of it!

This was SEGA's answer to Nintendo's "Kung-Fu". I loved playing this game at my friend's house back in the day, considering I had "Kung-Fu", so it was a blast.

"I have to save Julia from the rival karate school" - Ben

One of my childhood games right here. I remember this shit being HARD as hell. Classic gaming without a doubt. They need to release a Sega Master System mini IMMEDIATELY.

Riki is one of Ryuken's failed students from before the nukes hit and the same one from the Kunio-kun series. This is canon to me now.

I had no idea this was Kenshiro back in like 88. Of course I was nowhere near old enough to have been exposed to FoTNS then either. Came back in my adulthood and found this gem. This was badass to know I was kicking Shin's ass back then.

He made all of the boss fights harder than they had to be but that Oni fight was brilliant! There is a boss rush easter egg at the end of this game.

One of the best songs ever for a boss fight

This game was way better than what was on Nintendo

I mastered this game when I was a kid. It’s legendary.

this is "hokuto no ken" for europe,this versión is a remake.

Yes yes... bring back those days

Such an awesome game! Great play and sound.. always loved how the enemies exploded!

I like how realistic it is because it says you brought just temporarily peace to the world haha.

Paralax in the ground. Awesome for an 8 bit mid 80s game.

My bros and me played this game for years trying to beat it. Took awhile but enjoyed this game immensely as kids. I think we still have it somewhere. I am surprised no one has tried to make a sequel since it was purely inspired by the 70s/80s kung fu movies. I am sure the game Sifu could be considered an updated version of this.

This is kenshiro before he got his badass hokuto shinken powers

Bro, the feelings that this brings me are indescribable. Whole s***!

Que de bons souvenirs, ça semble être hier, merci

Esse fez parte da minha infância !!! Top 👏👏👏👏👏

That game was awesome. I used to played

I think this must be the first game that had FATALITIES after killing the bosses.

This era was magical in my life.

Love it when i kick a mofo and they break into pieces 😂

Its cool that Yuji Naka programed this, the same guy that did Sonic on the megadrive.

It tock me 6 months as a kid to know how to high jump, it was hardcore

this and choplifter are the only games i remember playing. my grandma had one in the 80's.

The boss fights made this game for me

I had this game mastered when I was 8 years old great memories

Rita has a nice portrait of Lionel Richie up on her wall. Good for her.

I feel a litle nostalgic watching that gameplay and listening to that sound.

Finally found this. First video game I ever played.