Champion Kendou translates the strikes and blocks of kendo — fencing with bamboo swords — into a one-on-one fighting game, a subject rarely explored given how much karate and boxing dominated the fighting genre. It's a rarity within the fighting-game catalog for how specific its discipline is; today it interests those looking for less-traveled variants of the genre in early Japanese video games.
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