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In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', Little Mac appears as a regular Trophy and an Assist Trophy. He sports a more textured look and performs punches and uppercuts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/items/assist/assist10.html|title=Little Mac|publisher=Smash Bros. Dojo!!|date=2007-10-18}}</ref> In the same game, the music from the [[Manhattan]] skyline scene in ''Punch-Out!!'' can be heard in the song titled "Famicom Medley." In the [[Wii]] game titled ''[[Captain Rainbow]]'', Little Mac appears as a supporting character. |
In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', Little Mac appears as a regular Trophy and an Assist Trophy. He sports a more textured look and performs punches and uppercuts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/items/assist/assist10.html|title=Little Mac|publisher=Smash Bros. Dojo!!|date=2007-10-18}}</ref> In the same game, the music from the [[Manhattan]] skyline scene in ''Punch-Out!!'' can be heard in the song titled "Famicom Medley." In the [[Wii]] game titled ''[[Captain Rainbow]]'', Little Mac appears as a supporting character. |
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Soon after the release of ''Punch-Out!!'', [[Beam Software]] began developing an official sequel starring Mike Tyson with manager [[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]]. Originally titled ''Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch'', the game was supposed to take the series into [[outer space]] where Tyson would participate in an intergalactic boxing tournament against various space aliens. |
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Nintendo saw the game and disliked it, refusing to publish it due to lack of quality. Eventually, [[American Softworks Corp.]] published the title, and the game was released on the NES as ''[[Power Punch II]]'', despite the fact that it was the first ''Power Punch'' title. |
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| Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D3[1] |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Designer(s) | Genyo Takeda[1] Makoto Wada[1] |
| Composer(s) | Yukio Kaneoka Kenji Yamamoto |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayChoice-10, Virtual Console |
| Release | October 1987
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| Genre(s) | Sports, Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Punch-Out!!, originally released in North America as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, is a boxing sports fighting video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) developed and published by Nintendo in 1987. It is a port of both the Punch-Out!! and Super Punch-Out!! arcade games (mostly the latter) with some variations. It has consistently been ranked among the best games released for the NES platform.[citation needed] Mario makes an appearance as the game's referee.
Development
Genyo Takeda, who added to the NES version that the arcade versions lacked were a rough plot, a background music track played during fights, animated cutscenes and a password system for saving progress.
Around the time the [[Punch-Out!! (video as it occurred before Tyson won the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship from Trevor Berbick on November 22, 1986.[2]
Gameplay
[[File When Little Mac loc c c -Out!! are each used twice, just changing the head image, colors, and the unique special moves performed.
Other versions
Gold Version
.htm|title=賞品版パンチアウトPunch-Out!! (arcade game)|Super Punch-Out!!]] arcade game. When Mike Tyso's Punch-Out!! sold well in North America, Nintendo later released the Mike Tyson version in Japan.[3]
Punch-Out!!
After Nintendo's license to use Mike Tyson as a special Punch-Out!! character expired, Nintendo replaced Tyson with a fictional character called Mr. Dream and re-released the game in North America as simply Punch-Out!! in August 1990 in limited quantities.[4] This version was released on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in Japan on February 1, 2012, in Europe on March 1, 2012 and in North America on March 8, 2012.
Other releases
Along with several NES titles by Nintendo, Punch-Out!! was later ported to several other platforms in Nintendo media. In Animal Crossing for the Nintendo GameCube, it was one of the rarer unlockable NES games one could acquire within the game. It was also released through the Wii's Virtual Console service on March 30, 2007 to the European and Australian regions, April 3, 2007 in Japan, and in North America on April 16, 2007. During that release, 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 other versions of it.[5] The Japanese Famicom version was released for the 3DS Virtual Console on February 1, 2012, making the first Famicom game that was not part of the Ambassador program. Nintendo later re-released the Game & Watch game, Boxing, retitled as Punch-Out!! to promote Punch-Out!!'s release.
Reception
| Publication | Score |
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| Allgame |   [6] |
| The Video Game Critic | A+ [7] |
Punch-Out!! has been well received by critics. A Gamespot reader poll ranked it as the 6th greatest NES game. It was rated the 17th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list.[8] In August 2008, Nintendo Power listed it as the sixth best Nintendo Entertainment System video game, praising it for putting arcade-style fun over realism.[9] Author Steve L. Kent called it the second major game of 1987.[2] Author Nathan Lockard cited the graphics, violence, controls, and the variety for it being a "true classic" and one of the best NES games.[10] Punch-Out!! sold in excess of 2 million copies.[11]
Other appearances
Punch-Out!! was featured in the comic books of Valiant's Nintendo Comics System. Three stories are based around Little Mac, Doc Louis, and other boxers from the NES version, and Mac briefly appears in the comic that introduces the story of Captain N: The Game Master. Mac doesn't appear in the Captain N stories himself; however, King Hippo is featured as a villain. Also, in the opening sequence of the Captain N TV series, the protagonist Kevin Keene was seen playing Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! before being forced into a vortex that formed in his television's screen.[12]
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Little Mac appears as a regular Trophy and an Assist Trophy. He sports a more textured look and performs punches and uppercuts.[13] In the same game, the music from the Manhattan skyline scene in Punch-Out!! can be heard in the song titled "Famicom Medley." In the Wii game titled Captain Rainbow, Little Mac appears as a supporting character.
Power Punch II
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Soon after the release of Punch-Out!!, Beam Software began developing an official sequel starring Mike Tyson with manager Don King. Originally titled Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch, the game was supposed to take the series into outer space where Tyson would participate in an intergalactic boxing tournament against various space aliens.
The game's production ran into immediate trouble, however, following Tyson's incarceration for the rape of Desiree Washington. Beam changed the Tyson character's name to Mark Tyler and modified King but did little to change Tyson's in-game character sprite.
Nintendo saw the game and disliked it, refusing to publish it due to lack of quality. Eventually, American Softworks Corp. published the title, and the game was released on the NES as Power Punch II, despite the fact that it was the first Power Punch title.
- ^ a b c "Investigating a Glove Interface". Iwata Asks: Punch-Out!!. Nintendo of America, Inc. 13 September 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ^ a b The ultimate history of video games ... - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!". Famicom World. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
- ^ "Bulletin Board – Nintendo Classics Reissued!". Nintendo Power (18): 96. November–December 1990.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Kohler, Chris (2007-04-26). "Punch-Out and Crippling HDTV Lag". Wired News. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
- ^ Hoffman, Joshua. "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! – Overview". Allgame. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "The Video Game Critic's NES Reviews". videogamecritic.net. uknown. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "NP Top 200", Nintendo Power, vol. 200, pp. 58–66, February 2006
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - ^ "Nintendo Power - The 20th Anniversary Issue!". Nintendo Power. 231 (231). San Francisco, California: Future US. August 2008: 71.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help);|format=requires|url=(help); Cite journal requires|journal=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ The good, the bad, and the bogus ... - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ Game over: how Nintendo zapped an ... - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ "The Unofficial Captain N Home Page". Ldloveszh.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ "Little Mac". Smash Bros. Dojo!!. 2007-10-18.