Heavyweight Champ

Heavyweight Champ
Arcade flyer for the 1987 game
Developer(s)Sega
Platform(s)Arcade
ReleaseOctober 1976 (original)[1]
September 1987 (remake)[2]
Genre(s)Sports
This article is about the video game. For heavyweight champions in real life, see List of heavyweight boxing champions.

Heavyweight Champ[a] is a series of boxing video games from Sega. The original arcade video game was released in 1976. The game uses black-and-white graphics and critics have since identified it as the first video game to feature hand-to-hand fighting.[3][4][5] It was a commercial success in Japan, where it was the third highest-grossing arcade video game of 1976.[6] However, it is now considered a lost video game.[7]

Sega released a remake to arcades in 1987, changing the side perspective of the original game to a third-person viewpoint from behind the boxer. Both games feature unique controls that simulate throwing actual punches.[3] The 1987 remake was Japan's fifth highest-grossing arcade video game of 1988 and received positive reviews from critics.

  1. ^ "1973-76". Sega Arcade History. Famitsu DC (in Japanese). Enterbrain. 2002. pp. 30–2.
  2. ^ "Heavyweight Champ arcade video game pcb by SEGA Enterprises, Ltd. (1987)". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b Spencer, Spanner, The Tao of Beat-'em-ups, EuroGamer, Feb 6 2008, Accessed Feb 23, 2009
  4. ^ Ashcraft, Brian, (2008) Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers, (Kodansha International), p. 94
  5. ^ Nadia Oxford, 20 Years of Street Fighter, 1UP.com, 12/11/2007
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference GM65 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Heavyweight Champ". Ultimate History of Video games. Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2017.


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