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Punch-Out!!, known originally as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (マイクタイソン・パンチアウト!!, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!?), and later re-released as Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream is a boxing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed and published by Nintendo in 1987. It is a semi-port of both the Punch-Out!! and Super Punch-Out!! arcade games (mostly inclined towards the latter) with some variations. The game had a poorly received spiritual successor in Power Punch II and a worthier sequel in Super Punch-Out!!. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! is considered among the greatest Nintendo games of all time.

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 completely simulate the arcade versions. Instead of making the playable boxer wire-framed or transparent to see an opponent, they decided to shrink the playable boxer, so that players could see his opponents over his head easier. And while the playable boxer didn't have an official name, he was called "Little Mac", because of him being small. Nintendo's mascot, Mario, was also added as the referee to cheer up Mario fans. Also, developers decided to give Mario speech balloons instead of the voice samples of the referee from the arcade versions to save space in the cartridge ROM. Other things added to the NES version that the arcade versions lacked was a plot, a background music track played during fights, animation sequences and a password system.



For those who have yet to play this.. get this game now and play it. This game is fantastic. I have yet to find one person to say that this game sucks. And YES, there is a difference between the Mike Tyson version and the Mr Dream version. And NO... he does not bite your ear off in the game