Karnov

Karnov
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Data East Quicksilver Software (IBM PC) Mr. Micro Ltd./Software Studios (C64) Software Studios (Amstrad, Spectrum) Data East/SAS Sakata (NES) Technology Works (Mac)
Publisher(s)	Data East Data East (IBM PC, C64, NES, Mac) Electric Dreams (Amstrad, Spectrum) Namco (Famicom)
Platform(s)	NES, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, IBM PC, Classic Mac OS
Release	Arcade 1987 NES JP: December 18, 1987 NA: January 1988
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Up to 2 players, alternating turns

Karnov (カルノフ, Karunofu) is a platform game released in arcades in 1987.^[1] A Nintendo Entertainment System port followed. Players take control of the title character Jinborov Karnovski, or "Karnov" for short. Karnov is a strongman popularly illustrated as being from an unspecified part of the Soviet Union's Central Asian republics as shown on the arcade flyer and again in Karnov's Revenge.

As a character created by Data East, Karnov was reintroduced in several other games from the company, including Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja in which he is a boss in the first level. Karnov later appeared in the 1993 fighting game Fighter's History, in which Karnov is the final boss, and as a playable character in its sequel, Karnov's Revenge, also known as Fighter's History Dynamite.