Punch-Out!!
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Punch-Out!![lower-alpha 1] is a video game series of boxing created by Nintendo's general manager Genyo Takeda, and his partner Makoto Wada. It was originally created, because Nintendo had too many TV screens lying around in their warehouse, due to buying an abundance of them after the success of the Donkey Kong (1981 video game).[2] Genyo Takeda was consulted as to what to make, and he suggested a boxing game.[3] Thus Punch-Out!! was born.
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Genre(s) | Sports, Fighting, Puzzle |
Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D3 (1984-1998) Next Level Games (2009) Nvidia Lightspeed Studios (2019) |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Creator(s) | Genyo Takeda Makoto Wada[1] |
Platform(s) | Arcade, Game & Watch, NES, Super NES, Wii, Wii U, Nvidia Shield |
First release | Punch-Out!! February 17, 1984 |
Latest release | Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! October 27, 2009 |
The first game was Punch-Out!! made in 1983 in Japan as an arcade unit. The game was then released in the US in February 1984,[4] which was followed by a sequel, titled Super Punch-Out!! (1984). The series was released on home consoles soon after, starting with Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! on the NES in 1987 (with a re-release of the game in 1990, which removed Mike Tyson, due to the license for his likeness expiring, and his loss of the heavyweight title to Buster Douglas, made Nintendo choose to not renew the contract,[5] and was instead replaced by the fictional Mr. Dream for the final opponent, who was just a palette swap) and Super Punch-Out!! on the Super NES in 1994.
A reboot of the series entitled Punch-Out!!, was released in May 2009 on the Wii, along with a Club Nintendo exclusive WiiWare prequel Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! in October 2009. The series also had a spin-off called Arm Wrestling, which was released only in North American arcades, and was Nintendo's last arcade game they independently developed and released.