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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 29 > Nintendo’s back in the ring

Nintendo’s back in the ring

Updated version of ‘Punch-Out!!’ is familiar, but still satisfying

By Lou Kesten / The Bulletin
May 29, 2009

In the early 1980s, after Muhammad Ali retired, boxing was losing its mojo. It took two larger-than-life brawlers to bring star power back to the ring: Mike Tyson and Little Mac.

They were the stars of the 1987 Nintendo game “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!” If you had a....

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