Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (1986) is a cartoony boxing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System designed, developed, and published by Nintendo. The game featured a boxer named "Little Mac" working his way up the professional boxing circuits, facing a series of colorful, fictional boxers up until a fight with the world champion, Mike Tyson.
The opponents in sequence are:
- Glass Joe
- Von Kaiser
- Piston Honda
- Don Flamenco
- King Hippo
- Great Tiger
- Bald Bull
- Piston Honda
- Soda Popinski
- Bald Bull
- Don Flamenco
- Mr. Sandman
- Super Macho Man
- Mike Tyson / Mr. Dream
Gameplay
The game requires good reflexes in reaction to the computer-controlled boxers' moves, as the more advanced boxers give very little indication of their coming moves. Unlike many games of the mid-1980s, Punch-Out!! incorporated enough randomness to be a challenge to even experienced players. Still, many have mastered Punch-Out!! by learning the computer-controlled boxers' tendencies.
Other versions
After its license with Tyson expired, Nintendo re-released the game as Punch-Out!!, replacing the Tyson character with "Mr. Dream", whose appearance differed but fought in the same fashion as the Tyson character.
This game was inspired by the 1984 arcade game Punch-Out!!, also by Nintendo. The arcade version doesn't use Tyson's image or name.
