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| Punch-Out!! | |
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| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Creator(s) | Genyo Takeda Makoto Wada[1] |
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| First release | Punch-Out!! February 17, 1984 |
| Latest release | Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! October 27, 2009 |
Punch-Out!![a] is a boxing video game series created by Genyo Takeda and Makoto Wada, and published by Nintendo. The player controls a boxer named Little Mac, who aims to become the World Video Boxing Association (W.V.B.A.) champion.
The original Punch-Out!! arcade game was first released in 1984,[2] and was quickly followed by a sequel, titled Super Punch-Out!!. The series received its first home console entry in 1987, with Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In 1994, Super Punch-Out!! was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. While not a direct port, it features gameplay more similar to the arcade games, rather than its NES predecessor.
Following a period of dormancy, the series was rebooted with Punch-Out!!, first released in 2009 for the Wii, along with a Club Nintendo-exclusive prequel, Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!. The series has received critical and commercial acclaim, with the NES game selling three million copies alone.[3]
Spin-offs were also released, namely Punch-Out!! / Boxing (Game & Watch) in 1984, and Arm Wrestling in 1985.
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- ^ "The Evolution of Punch-Out!!". stoneagegamer.com. Archived from the original on 2024-04-05. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
- ^ "Nintendo has Singlehandedly has revived the video game industry". Albuquerque Journal. October 16, 1989. p. 13. Archived from the original on February 7, 2023. Retrieved September 22, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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