Play Panza Kick Boxing Online

Panza Kick Boxing on MS-DOS is one of those weirdly fascinating early fighting games where you can tell the devs were trying something different. The rotoscoped animations give the fighters this janky-but-cool realism—like watching an old martial arts film where every punch actually connects. You pick 13 moves out of 35 to build your fighter’s moveset, which sounds simple until you realize half the kicks look identical and you’re just guessing which one’s actually useful.

The sequel, Super Kick Boxing (or whatever it’s called in Japan), tweaks things with more moves and a shady underground fight mode called "Kumite." Fun fact: André Panza, the kickboxing champ who originally sponsored this, got completely cut out of the Japanese version. Guess they figured no one would notice. The training modes are oddly brutal, and the AI loves to spam the same combo until you want to throw your keyboard. Still, there’s something charming about how awkwardly ambitious it all is. If you’re into retro fighting games with janky personality, this one’s a weird little time capsule.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".