Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! retrospective: Tech knock-out | NES Works #062
1,644Nintendo's final release for 1987 is one for the ages: A conversion of minor arcade hit Punch-Out!! So how do you port a cutting-edge arcade game to a console that launched a year before the coin-op machine without losing its essence? If you're Nintendo, you create a fancy new microchip specifically for the task; you radically overhaul the game to emphasize precision and readability; and you enlist the support of the most popular athlete in the world. It's a combo that's hard to top—and the results were so strong that it still holds up even without the endorsement of Mike Tyson.
Special thanks once again to Steve Lin and the Video Game History Foundation (http://www.gamehistory.org) this episode!
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