Standard Edition
StandardIn the box
- NES cartridge
- Box with cover art
- Instruction booklet
NES
About the Nintendo Entertainment System
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Punch-Out!!, originally titled Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, is a 1987 boxing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Part of the Punch-Out!!
FightingSport
- Update patch
- No patch
- Time to beat
- about 3.1 hours
- Plays offline
- Yes
Overview
Nintendo of America's founder and former president Minoru Arakawa attended a boxing match during the Heavyweight unification series that featured its future champion Mike Tyson. Arakawa became so astonished with the athlete's "power and skill" that he was inspired to use his likeness and the tournament itself in the upcoming game. Tyson was rumored to have been paid $50,000 for a three-year period for his likeness. This transaction was something of a risk for Nintendo, as it occurred before Tyson won the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship from Trevor Berbick on November 22, 1986, which greatly increased the profit for the game. Nintendo would release the Mike Tyson version of Punch-Out!! in Japan soon after its North American release.
Punch-Out!! features Little Mac, a young boxer fighting his way up through ranks of the World Video Boxing Association. After facing a series of colorful fictional opponents in three circuits and winning the championship in each, Little Mac enters a final "Dream Fight" against a highly skilled boxer. In the gold prize version, the final boss is Super Macho Man, who was also the final opponent in Super Punch-Out!!. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! features Mike Tyson, the real-life undisputed World Heavyweight boxing Champion at the time. After the license to use Tyson's likeness expired in 1990, he was replaced by the fictional Mr. Dream in later releases of the game.
Official trailer
Gameplay video. Watch on YouTube
Gameplay
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (NES) Playthrough, NintendoComplete. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Fighting, Sport
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D3
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Series
- Punch-Out!!
- Platforms
- Arcade, Nintendo Entertainment System
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Local multiplayer
- No
- Online multiplayer
- No
- Co op
- No
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Nintendo Entertainment System | North America | 1987-10-18 |
| Nintendo Entertainment System | Europe / PAL | 1987-12-15 |
Editions
Punch-Out!! (Mr. Dream reissue)
In the box
- NES cartridge
- Box with cover art
- Instruction booklet
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Famicom)
In the box
- Famicom cartridge
- Box with cover art
Space and patches
Update patchNo patch
DLC
No DLC. NES games had no downloadable content.
Playable today
Playable offline todayYes
Single player only, with no online features. The cartridge runs on any NES.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ever released on disc | Yes, on NES cartridge |
| Ever released in the store | No Never sold digitally. Every digital re-release is the 1990 Punch-Out!!, with Mr. Dream in place of Mike Tyson. |
| In the store to buy today | No Never sold digitally. |
| Can be downloaded again if you already bought it | Does not exist Never sold digitally. |
| Disc runs with no patch | Yes |
| Disc runs with the final patch | Does not exist No patch was ever released. |
| Has online features | No |
| Online servers running today | Does not exist |
| Playable offline today: campaign | Yes |
| Playable offline today: local multiplayer | Does not exist Single player only. |
| Playable offline today: online multiplayer | Does not exist No online play. |
| Playable offline today: DLC | Does not exist No DLC. |
Online
Plays offlineYes
Reception
- Critics
Outlet Score Scale ACE 920 1000 Computer and Video Games 94 100 Mean Machines 8 10
Staff and cast
- Staff
Role Name Developer Nintendo R&D3 Publisher Nintendo Director Genyo Takeda Producer Minoru Arakawa Designers Kazuo Yoneyama, Mayumi Hirota Programmer Masato Hatakeyama Artist Makoto Wada Composers Yukio Kaneoka, Akito Nakatsuka, Kenji Yamamoto
Notes for collectors
- Little Mac boxes his way up the circuit to a dream fight with Mike Tyson.
- More than two million copies sold in North America by 1988.
- When Nintendo's licence with Mike Tyson ran out, the game was reissued in 1990 as Punch-Out!! with a new final boxer, Mr. Dream.
- Every later re-release, from the Virtual Console to Nintendo Switch Online, uses the Mr. Dream version, so only the original cartridge has Mike Tyson.
Credits
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D3
- Director
- Genyo Takeda
- Released
- 1987-10-18
- Age rating
- Not rated (pre-ESRB, before 1994)
- Region
- US
- Time to beat
- about 3.1 hours
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