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NES Works #062: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Patreon)

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2020-02-05 15:00:09
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2024-04
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Well, one thing is for sure with this episode: I'm in no danger of setting blindfolded perfect play speed records for this game. But hey, I'm about providing retrospective insight and context, not blistering finger skills. And thank goodness for that.

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Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! retrospective: Technological knock-out | NES Works #062

Nintendo's final release for 1987 is one for the ages: A conversion of minor arcade hit Punch-Out!! So how do you port a cutting-edge arcade game to a console that launched a year before the coin-op machine without losing its essence? If you're Nintendo, you create a fancy new microchip specifically for the task; you radically overhaul the game to emphasize precision and readability; and you enlist the support of the most popular athlete in the world. It's a combo that's hard to top—and the results were so strong that it still holds up even without the endorsement of Mike Tyson. Special thanks once again to Steve Lin and the Video Game History Foundation (http://www.gamehistory.org) this episode! Video Works is funded through Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/gamespite) — support the show and get access to every episode up to two weeks in advance of its YouTube debut! And be sure to check out the Retronauts podcast (http://www.retronauts.com), where I (and many others!) tackle a much wider array of classic gaming topics each week.

Comments

Kyle Olson

This may sound like nitpicking, but there's a statement "And he retired as an almost undisputed champ" at 2:41. This just isn't true at all, and "undisputed champ" has meaning in boxing terms. From the outside it may have seemed different, but by 2005 the only people calling him champ were people who didn't follow boxing. In the 1980's he was a force of nature, unifying all the belts in 1986-1987 and becoming the less official but sort of more important "lineal" heavyweight champion in 1988 to make him "undisputed". He lost the "undisputed" title on Feb 11 1990 against Buster Douglas. He would pick up a couple of Championship Belts that had less meaning in 1996, but these were mostly just guys fed to him to make his fights with Hollyfield seem more important. Losing these in 1996-1997, he would never be close to credible as a champion again. The match with Lennox Lewis for the title was already a bit of a joke in 2002 from a credibility state, and after this loss he had one win against a collapsing fighter, another where he got knocked out, and a fight which he admits he took only because he needed the cash and gave on the fight and boxing in general after the sixth round, refusing to answer the bell. Anyway, I don't want to take away from the whole piece of work of this video which is pretty good, it's just something to think about.

Sven Mascarenhas

Was expecting some sort of MMC2 pun in the opening. Disappointed.