CLASSIC GAMES REVISITED - Mike Tyson's Punch Out!! (Nintendo NES) Review

Before Iron Mike bit any ears or was accused of rape, Nintendo put him in the starring role of one of their better loved titles. How does the game hold up 20-some years later? Find out here!

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[Lachlant1984]

I've played the PAL version of this on the Wii and the music is a semitone lower than it is in this review, I assume this is due to the NTSC to PAL conversion.

[dommiesan]

I wouldn't think that would cause a sound issue - the PAL NTSC thing has to do with scanlines and frame rate and stuff like that on the TV screen. I would think the slight sound difference would have more to do with the NES emulator that the Wii is running. It could be that the emulator didn't quite get the sound chip right or that the CPU speed they set was slightly off just enough to hear a sound difference.

[Roodwurm]

@dommiesan. It most definitely causes a sound issue. PAL conversions back in the day were almost always downgraded, since no effort went into them. Bigger borders, lower frame rate, slower game speed and indeed slower music and sound effects were the result. This continued till the early N64 days, before the internet made EU gamers more massively aware of these differences and outcries on a larger scale forced publishers to actually optimise games. Before that, savvy gamers were importing.

[tyjohnston87]

Never played the Nintendo version, but I spent hours and hours plugging quarters into the arcade Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out. Loved those games. Maybe it's time I bought an old NES and this game.

[squirm13]

I only played this on an emulator not the best way, it does look pretty hard, though, especially at the end.

[thegameison100]

the key is to dodge his tornado punch, it varies with one, three, five, or seven respectively, you can tko him in round 1 if done right or you can ko him in round 2 by knocking him down 2 times in round 1 and round 2 for super macho man

[thegameison100]

very well put, the key is the same hand he uppercuts with

[ElCholoMeX]

you can hit mike at the first minute and a half after you sway either left or right if you quickly press up after you sway and press either a or b buttons.. you can only hit two hits tho... if done correctly he is left with 50 percent of his health and can be beat after that :)

[sanitycollapse]

Best game ever. Period.

[Lachlant1984]

I have subsequently found out that the music in the PAL version of this game is a semitone lower all round, even the original 1987 release that my best friend has, he told me last night. Actually this was the case with quite a few NES games, my best friend told me his version of Super Mario Brothers has the music a semitone lower than we're used to, he thinks Ice Climber may be another example.

[Lachlant1984]

That may be the case, but I haven't noticed it with other NES and SNES games we've downloaded onto my brother's Wii. It may be that Nintendo slightly changed the sound in the Punch Out re released we downloaded, we have the 1990 version, I hope that's all it is, because it doesn't happen with Super Mario Bros or Zelda.