Best of the Best: Championship Karate[a]is a 1992kick boxingvideo game initially developed by Futura and published by French companyLoriciel. The game featuresblack beltkick boxing masters whose object is to win the kick boxing championship by defeating an array of kick boxing masters in a series of fighting matches. TheSega Genesisversion is one of the few games to offer support for theSega Activatormotion controller.
Best of the Bestis an updated version ofPanza Kick Boxingwhich was released in 1990 in Europe for various computers as well as theTurboGrafx-16.
Martial artist and actorRon Yuanstated in a 1994 interview that "I know a lot of pure gamers will disagree, but the best SNES fighting game from a purely technical martial arts point of view isBest of the Best. It didn't get much notoriety, but my friends and I know martial arts, and they go nuts whenever we play."[1]