Punch-Out!! (NES)

This article is about the 1987 NES game. For other video games of the same name, see Punch-Out!! (arcade game) and Punch-Out!! (Wii).

Punch-Out!!
Front packaging of the re-release
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D3
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Genyo Takeda
Producer(s)Minoru Arakawa
Designer(s)Kazuo Yoneyama
Mayumi Hirota
Programmer(s)Masato Hatakeyama
Artist(s)Makoto Wada
Composer(s)Yukio Kaneoka
Akito Nakatsuka
Kenji Yamamoto[1]
SeriesPunch-Out!!
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
  • Gold Version
    • JP: September 18, 1987
  • Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
    • NA: October 1987
    • JP: November 21, 1987
    • EU: December 15, 1987
  • Punch-Out!!
    • NA: August 1990
    • EU: 1990
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player
Arcade systemPlayChoice-10

Punch-Out!!,[a] originally titled Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!,[b] is a 1987 boxing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Part of the Punch-Out!! series, it is an adaptation of the arcade video games Punch-Out!! (1984) and Super Punch-Out!! (1984). Differences from the arcades include the addition of undisputed world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson as the final boss. It received critical acclaim, and is retrospectively considered one of the greatest video games of all time.[2]

  1. ^ Yamamoto, Kenji; Sakamoto, Yoshio (n.d.). "Developer Interview, Volume 3" (Interview). Interviewed by Akinori Sao. Kyoto, Japan: Nintendo. Archived from the original on September 25, 2017. Retrieved May 11, 2020. Yamamoto: 'First, I worked on the sound for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!'
  2. ^ "We rank the 100 greatest videogames". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on April 8, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2020.


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