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Mike Tyson's Punch-Out a.k.a. Punch-Out! Featuring Mr. Dream!!

Developer(s)	Nintendo R&D3
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Distributor(s)	Nintendo
Released	1987
Genre	Sports game
Mode(s)	Single player
Ratings	ESRB: E (Everyone) (Wii)[1]
Platform(s)	Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo Gamecube, Virtual Console (see article)
Media	Cartridge
Input methods	Control pad

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (マイクタイソン・パンチアウト!!, Maiku Taison Panchi-Auto!!^?, Mike Tyson Punch-Out!!) is a cartoonish boxing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System designed, developed, and published by Nintendo. Originally released in 1987, it is a sequel to the arcade game Punch-Out!!. The game features a boxer named Little Mac working his way up the professional boxing circuits, facing a series of colorful, fictional boxers, leading to a final fight with real-life boxer, and then-World Heavyweight Champion, Mike Tyson.

1 Development
2 Gameplay
3 Opponents
4 Other versions
- 4.1 Wii Virtual Console
5 Trivia
6 References
7 External links

Development

Genyo Takeda, who produced the arcade versions of Punch-Out!!, directed the NES versions. Because the NES was not as powerful as the arcade hardware, Takeda and his crew realized that it would be too difficult to make the NES port look exactly like the arcade versions. Instead of making the playable boxer wire-framed or transparent to see an opponent, they decided to shrink a new playable boxer, named Little Mac, so that players could see their opponents over Little Mac's head. Other things they added to the NES version that the arcade versions lacked was a plot, a background music track played during fights, and Nintendo's mascot, Mario, as the referee due to the cartridge ROM not being large enough to store the voice samples of the announcer from the arcade versions.

Gameplay

The first match in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! against Glass Joe.

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. Punch-Out!! incorporates enough variety to be a challenge to even the most experienced of players. Still, many have mastered Punch-Out!! by learning the computer-controlled boxers' consistent patterns. Little Mac has a limited repertoire compared to many of his opponents. His punches are limited to left and right jabs, left and right body blows, and a powerful uppercut. The uppercut can only be used once the player earns a star, which can often be accomplished by counter-punching the opponent directly before or after certain attacks are launched. On the defensive side, the player can also dodge left or right, duck, and block attacks. Little Mac also has a heart meter, which decreases by three upon being struck by an opponent and one upon blocking an attack or an opponent blocking the player's attack. When the heart meter decreases to zero, Little Mac temporarily turns pink and appears exhausted; leaving the player unable to attack, but still able to defend. At this point, the player regains a few hearts and Little Mac reverts to his original palette, but only if Mac is able to successfully avoid his opponent's attacks. Mac will remain exhausted until he has successfully defended against an opponent's move. Doc Louis serves as Little Mac's faithful trainer and corner man who will gives advice between rounds on how to defeat Mac's opponent.

Opponents

The opponents the player has to face in the four boxing circuits are:

Minor Circuit

Glass Joe (Paris, France) - The easiest boxer in the game. He has lost 99 matches and has only won once. A similar character, Gabby Jay, is in the SNES game Super Punch-Out!!.
Von Kaiser (Berlin, Germany) - A former boxing instructor in the German military academy.
Piston Honda (Tokyo, Japan) - Japan's national boxing hero fighting for his village. Somewhat of a camera lover.

Major Circuit

Don Flamenco (Madrid, Spain) - A vain Spaniard who enters the ring with a rose in his teeth.
King Hippo (Hippo Island) - The largest of the WVBA contenders, Hippo's only weakness is his enormous, bandaged stomach. Once knocked down, he is never able to get up. He also appears in the Captain N cartoon series.
Great Tiger (Bombay, India) - A great magician who wears a turban; he has mystical punches.
Bald Bull (Istanbul, Turkey) - One of the series' most popular characters, known for his signature technique, the Bull Charge. Rumor has it, the game designers modeled his looks after Charles Barkley (then of the Philadelphia 76ers).

World Circuit

Piston Honda - Former Minor Circuit champion. Trained vigorously since losing his title.
Soda Popinski (Moscow, U.S.S.R.) - Russian boxer who is fond of drinking soda. Formerly known as Vodka Drunkenski.
Bald Bull - Former Major Circuit champion, sporting a significantly improved constitution as he requires a star to be knocked down.
Don Flamenco - Champion of Spain. Utilizes a completely different fighting style.
Mr. Sandman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Former World Champion. Excellent all-around boxer.
Super Macho Man (Hollywood, California) - WVBA World Champion. A self-absorbed muscleman.

The Dream Fight

Mike Tyson (Catskill, New York)/ Mr. Dream - an extremeley difficult opponent. Featuring a devastating uppercut known as Dynamite Uppercuts.

Another World Circuit

Other versions

In 1990, towards the end of the NES's run, the game was re-released as Punch-Out!!, with the Tyson character replaced by Mr. Dream. Mr. Dream fought in the same fashion as Tyson, but had cosmetic changes to his face and skin color. Contrary to popular belief, Tyson was removed not because of his 1991 rape conviction, which happened a year after the changeover, but because of a contract dispute with Nintendo and his title loss to Buster Douglas. During the release of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! in the United States, Nintendo released it in a gold-colored Famicom cartridge simply titled Punch-Out!! in Japan, without Mike Tyson or Mr. Dream in it, as a prize for the Golf US Course Famicom Tournament. This version's final boxer is Super Macho Man. This game was inspired by the 1984 arcade game Punch-Out!!, also by Nintendo, as is its sequel Super Punch-Out!!. The arcade version does not use Tyson's image or name, but many of the other characters are taken from one of the two arcade games. Glass Joe, Bald Bull, and Mr. Sandman are from Punch-Out!!, while Great Tiger, Soda Popinski (aka Vodka Drunkenski), and Super Macho Man are from Super Punch-Out!!. Furthermore, Piston Honda is nearly identical to Punch-Out!!'s Piston Hurricane without visual alterations, while Bear Hugger was replaced by King Hippo, due to Bear Hugger's appearance being too detailed to convert to the NES version. In Animal Crossing, one of the unlockable NES games is Punch-Out!! (Mr. Dream version). It is one of the rarer NES games available. One of the microgames in WarioWare: Smooth Moves for the Wii involves the player taking on the role of Mario as the referee and counting down Glass Joe, Von Kaiser, and Bald Bull. In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, all of Jimmy's boss stages (not only his original stage, but also the two remixes halfway into the game) features boxing matches with various people based on the original Punch-Out!!. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Little Mac appears as an Assist Trophy. He sports a more textured look, and performs punches and uppercuts. [2]

Wii Virtual Console

This game was released on the Wii Virtual Console on March 30, 2007 to the European and Australian regions, April 3, 2007 in Japan, and in North America on April 16, 2007. Only the Punch-Out!! version (with Mr. Dream) is available. Reports have surfaced stating that when the game is played in progressive scan, the Virtual Console version of Punch-Out!! suffers from a lag in controls, which significantly raises the difficulty level compared to the NES version. [3]

Trivia

Soda Popinski's laugh was later used for Ganon's laugh at the game over screen of the American version of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. A similar laugh was also used in the NES version of Kung-Fu Master.
This game is the only NES cartridge to use the MMC 2 chip. It was designed to handle the greater amount of graphics used on the screen without the need for the game itself to manually switch them. The games developer, Nintendo's R&D3 team, also designed and engineered the MMC chips for NES cartridges, therefore they customized a chip for the purposes of this game.
Great Tiger's teleportation sound effect is the same sound effect from Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, when Link uses magic.
In the game, if you're doing a bad job, you get the following advice from Doc Louis: "Join the Nintendo fun club today, Mac!". If you joined the club you actually could get cheat codes and helpful tips on how to beat your opponents.
Rapper MURS has spoofed Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! for his 2007 music video Murray's Revenge (which is also the name of the video game that he's playing). During the video he plays the game on the Nintendo Entertainment System which freezes midway during the video and enters a cheat code (which is his birthday 003 016 1978) to access the parodied Mike Tyson (which is named Mic Tyson). MURS also parodies the character fighters in the video as well.
In Sam & Max: Ice Station Santa, there is an arcade game sequence that pays homage to Punch-Out!! The music is clearly based off of the main theme, and the second opponent is a rat by the name of "Bald Bullrat", clearly referring to Bald Bull.