Ahh, Karateka. A game that many of us bloggers here at QJ.NET remember fondly. Jordan Mechner, the same dude who created the aforementioned game and Prince of Persia (a new one is in development for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3), revealed at this year's San Diego Comic-con that he is currently working on a follow-up to game.

According to Mechner, "there actually is a plan to bring back Karateka. It's a project I'm going to be involved in. I can safely say it's not going to be in the way you expect." Interesting. We can't wait to see what he comes up with this time around (and it had better be good lest he disappoint a lot of gamers who still remember how awesome the first game was).

He also spoke about how the guys over at Broderbond Software were able to pull off the Easter egg where you placed in the floppy disk upside down to be able to play the game upside down. Apparently, the programmer who was handling copy protection of the game was able to figure out how to do that by "messing with the bit table."

As to how they were able to convince the publisher to burn the game on both sides of the disk, he gave out an interesting response. So before we go, here's what he had to say:

We went do the president of Broderbund to propose this, and we didn't think they'd go for it, because it would require an assembly line change to actually burn the game onto both sides of the disk, which adds however many cents. So we went in, and he said, 'Sure. Do it.'