NES Works #062: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Added 2020-02-05 15:00:09 +0000 UTCWell, one thing is for sure with this episode: I'm in no danger of setting blindfolded perfect play speed records for this game. But hey, I'm about providing retrospective insight and context, not blistering finger skills. And thank goodness for that.
Comments
Was expecting some sort of MMC2 pun in the opening. Disappointed.
Sven Mascarenhas
2020-02-05 21:03:48 +0000 UTCThis may sound like nitpicking, but there's a statement "And he retired as an almost undisputed champ" at 2:41. This just isn't true at all, and "undisputed champ" has meaning in boxing terms. From the outside it may have seemed different, but by 2005 the only people calling him champ were people who didn't follow boxing. In the 1980's he was a force of nature, unifying all the belts in 1986-1987 and becoming the less official but sort of more important "lineal" heavyweight champion in 1988 to make him "undisputed". He lost the "undisputed" title on Feb 11 1990 against Buster Douglas. He would pick up a couple of Championship Belts that had less meaning in 1996, but these were mostly just guys fed to him to make his fights with Hollyfield seem more important. Losing these in 1996-1997, he would never be close to credible as a champion again. The match with Lennox Lewis for the title was already a bit of a joke in 2002 from a credibility state, and after this loss he had one win against a collapsing fighter, another where he got knocked out, and a fight which he admits he took only because he needed the cash and gave on the fight and boxing in general after the sixth round, refusing to answer the bell. Anyway, I don't want to take away from the whole piece of work of this video which is pretty good, it's just something to think about.
Kyle Olson
2020-02-05 19:46:24 +0000 UTC
