Champion Boxing

Champion Boxing (チャンピオンボクシング, "Boxing Champion") is a 1984 boxing sports video game developed and published by Sega for the SG-1000,^[5] and later ported to the arcades,^[6] only in Japan and Europe. It was Sega-AM2 founder and leader Yu Suzuki's debut creation, as well as that of Rieko Kodama.^[2] In 1985, a successor of Champion Boxing titled Champion Pro Wrestling was released in the arcades, and ported to the SG-1000 and the MSX home computer the same year. However, this is a professional wrestling game instead of a boxing game.

Champion Boxing
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Sega
Publisher(s)	Sega
Designer(s)	Yoji Ishii[1]
Programmer(s)	Yu Suzuki[2]
Artist(s)	Rieko Kodama
Platform(s)	SG-1000, Arcade,[2] MSX
Release	SG-1000 JP: October 1984[3] EU: 1985 Arcade JP: November 1984[4] NA: 1984
Genre(s)	Sports, fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Development

Yu Suzuki described Champion Boxing as a minor project with very little staff, and said that because of this it allowed him to learn the process of games development with very little pressure.^[7] Because the game was understaffed for designers, Suzuki actually contributed some of the drawings for the various punching animations.^[7]

According to Suzuki, the game was developed for the SG-1000 first, and then the arcade version was created by simply installing an SG-1000 in an arcade cabinet.^[7]

Pengo makes a cameo after a KO.