Playing Super Punch Out on my SNES emulator, I realized something the other day. The game is good; a nice remake of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!, but they left out some characters. Sure, they still have Bald Bull (quite arguably the celebrity of the genre) and Mr. Sandman, but no Piston Honda! This guy was cool, he was the beefiest Japanese guy I ever saw. Instead, they have some other Japanese boxer in the World circuit, Heike Kagero. This is the fruitiest boxer I have ever seen; the guy is reed-thin, has long white hair, MAKEUP, makes effeminite ‘ooh!’ sounds, its just disturbing. When you see his profilie, he says something along the lines of ‘Oh please be gentle! hoo hoo hoo!’. That is scary. The guy’s face is scary. He looks like a witch.
Another thing, I know this game is less leaning toward realism in its gameplay, but they sort of went overboard just to make it over the top. In the original, the boxers didn’t do anything illegal (I think it would be funny to see a real boxer KO his opponent by making 3 hops across the ring and giving an uppercut). In Super Punch Out, you have a Bruce Lee-type guy that is doing jump kicks, and an old Chinese guy (Imagine Happosai only 4 feet tall and with Cologne’s staff) with a STAFF which he uses to whack you in the face. There’s a Mexican wrestler boxer who spits in your face and headbutts you, plus several boxers who use elbows. I think the worst is the clown who throws juggling balls at you. I mean what the hell. Since when do they let overweight Italian clowns into the ring only to hang by the ropes and fling stuff at the other guy?!
Maybe in the next version of Punch out they should put in a Mike Tyson lookalike who bites your ears and punches the ref :rolleyes:
It was always fun to play Punch OUt with “Eye of the Tiger” playing in the background. Then I would pretend I was Rocky and Soda Popinski was Ivan Drago from Rocky IV
Well, the original arcade Punch Out! had fairly realistic boxers using somewhat realistic techniques, while the follow-up arcade game Super Punch Out got a bit sillier with bear hugs, kung-fu kicks, teleportation, spinning clotheslines, etc… I guess they wanted to keep the same sort of progression for the home console series.
[sub]if the OP is a satirical take on another post, consider me whoooooshed. Seems odd that something this innocuous would be in the pit.[/sub]
That Hollywood guy would always catch me with his stupid tornado punch. I would always dodge them, and then that last one would CRACK me right down to the canvas. That said, that had to be one of the best games ever created.
That Hollywood guy would always catch me with his stupid tornado punch. I would always dodge them, and then that last one would CRACK me right down to the canvas. That said, that had to be one of the best games ever created.
That Hollywood guy would always catch me with his stupid tornado punch. I would always dodge them, and then that last one would CRACK me right down to the canvas. That said, that had to be one of the best games ever created.
I remember playing the Nintendo version of Punch Out. Unfortunately, I was never really any good at it, but it was great seeing my sibs go up to the higher rounds. (as well as seeing what the wrestlers would say after they finished their rounds)
I don’t know if this should really be in the pit. It seems so civilized. I have my nintendo hooked up right now and I love the old school 8 bit action. I even have the powerpad but I can’t use it because my neighbors downstairs complain when I play EGGSPLODE.
Uh, scar your childhood memories of Punch Out here. But be forewarned, it contains content of, well, nude pixels. If that offends you/isn’t allowed, then don’t click/edit my post and take it out. It’s pretty darn funny though.
C’mon guys, I think it’s pretty clear the OP was referring to Nintendo’s videogame roots, and I for one completely agree. Enough of this namby-pamby console stuff, what we need is a good boxing game-and-watch.
