Punch - Out ! ! ( NES ) - wikipedia Punch - Out ! ! ( NES ) This article is about the 1987 NES game. For other video games of the same name, see Punch - Out ! ! ( arcade game ) and Punch - Out ! ! ( Wii ). Punch - Out ! ! The front packaging of the re-release. Developer ( s ) Nintendo R&D3 Publisher ( s ) Nintendo Director ( s ) Genyo Takeda Producer ( s ) Minoru Arakawa Designer ( s ) Kazuo Yoneyama Mayumi Hirota Programmer ( s ) Masato Hatakeyama Artist ( s ) Makoto Wada Composer ( s ) Yukio Kaneoka Akito Nakatsuka Kenji Yamamoto Series Punch - Out ! ! Platform ( s ) NES / Famicom, PlayChoice - 10, Virtual Console Release NES / Famicom Gold Version JP : September 18, 1987 Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! NA : October 18, 1987 JP : November 21, 1987 PAL : December 15, 1987 Punch - Out ! ! NA : August 2, 1990 EU : August 15, 1990 Wii Virtual Console PAL : March 30, 2007 JP : April 3, 2007 NA : April 16, 2007 Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console JP : February 1, 2012 PAL : March 1, 2012 NA : March 8, 2012 Wii U Virtual Console NA : March 20, 2013 PAL : March 20, 2013 JP : June 5, 2013 Genre ( s ) Sports, Fighting Mode ( s ) Single - player Punch - Out ! ! ( パンチ アウト ! !, Panchiauto ! ! ), originally released in North America as Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! !, is a boxing sports fighting video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ) developed and published by Nintendo in 1987. Part of the Punch - Out ! ! series, it is a port of both the Punch - Out ! ! and Super Punch - Out ! ! arcade games with some variations. Contents 1 Development 2 Gameplay 2.1 Characters 3 Other versions 3.1 Gold Version 3.2 Punch - Out ! ! 3.3 Other releases 4 Reception 5 Other appearances 6 Power Punch II 7 References 8 External links Development Genyo Takeda produced the Punch - Out ! ! arcade games and directed the NES versions. Because the NES was not as powerful as the arcade hardware, Takeda and his crew realized that it would be impossible for the NES port to faithfully emulate the arcade graphics. Instead of making the playable boxer wire - framed or transparent in order to see an opponent, they decided to make the playable boxer more short - bodied, so that players could easily see opponents over the large head room of the playable boxer. Other things added to the NES version that the arcade versions lacked were a rough plot, a background music track played during fights, animated cutscenes and a password system for saving progress. Around the time the Gold Version was released, Nintendo of America 's founder and former president Minoru Arakawa attended a boxing match featuring future heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. While watching the boxer fight, Arakawa became so astonished with the athlete 's `` power and skill '', he was inspired to use the athlete 's name and likeness in the upcoming port of the Punch - Out ! ! series to help the game sell well. Tyson was rumored to have been paid $50,000 for a three - year period for his likeness. This 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. Gameplay A screenshot depicting Punch - Out ! ! 's gameplay. In it, Little Mac has punched at the right time to defend himself against Bald Bull 's `` Bull Charge '', instantly knocking him down. Punch - Out ! ! features a boxer known as Little Mac, fighting his way up through ranks of the World Video Boxing Association. After facing a series of colorful fictional opponents in three circuits, the goal is to win a final `` Dream Fight '' against a highly skilled boxer -- the real - life Mike Tyson, then - World Heavyweight Champion, in the original release ; or the fictional Mr. Dream in the later version. Little Mac has a limited repertoire compared to most of his opponents. His punches are limited to left and right jabs, left and right body blows, and a powerful uppercut. The uppercut can only be used once the player earns a star, which is typically accomplished by counter-punching the opponent directly before or after certain attacks are launched. The player can acquire up to three stars. To perform the uppercut, the player needs to press the start button once a star is earned. To defend, Mac can dodge left or right, duck, and block punches by putting up his guard. Little Mac also has a heart counter, which decreases upon being hit, blocking a punch, or throwing a punch that the opponent dodges or blocks. When the counter decreases to zero, Little Mac temporarily turns pink and appears exhausted, leaving the player unable to attack but still able to dodge, duck, and block. At this point, Mac can regain some hearts ( and his normal color palette ) only by avoiding the opponent 's punches. He immediately loses all of his hearts upon being knocked down, but can regain some by getting up. A bout can end by knockout ( KO ), if a fighter is unable to get up within ten seconds after being knocked down ; by technical knockout ( TKO ), if a fighter is knocked down three times in one round ; or by decision, if the bout lasts three full rounds without a clear winner. In order to win by decision, the player must accumulate higher than a certain point total by punching the opponent and / or knocking him down ; the needed total varies from one boxer to the next. However, some bouts can not be won in this manner and will automatically result in a loss for the player if the opponent is not knocked out. Mac can only get up three times during any one bout ; if he is knocked down a fourth cumulative time, he will be unable to rise and thus lose by knockout. When Mac loses his first bout to a ranked opponent, he will have a chance to fight a rematch. However, if he loses a Title Bout, he will fall in the rankings -- one place for the Minor or Major Circuits, two places for the World Circuit. Losing a rematch causes him to fall one place ( unless he is already at the bottom of his circuit ), forcing him to fight his way back up. A third loss ( not necessarily a consecutive one ), or a loss in the Dream Fight, ends the game. Characters See also : List of Punch - Out ! ! characters Little Mac faces a total of 14 opponents : three in the Minor Circuit, four in the Major Circuit, six in the World Circuit, and Tyson / Mr. Dream. However, three of the World Circuit bouts involve previously defeated opponents with new moves. Except for King Hippo, every opponent character sprite is used twice during the game, with a change of head image, colors, and special moves. In addition, Mario makes a cameo appearance as the referee. Other versions Gold version Before the release of Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! in North America, Nintendo released the game in a gold - colored Famicom cartridge simply titled Punch - Out ! ! in Japan, without Mike Tyson in it, as a prize for the Golf U.S. Course Famicom Tournament in September 1987. The final opponent in this version was Super Macho Man, who was also the final opponent in the Super Punch - Out ! ! arcade game. When Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! sold well in North America, Nintendo later released the Mike Tyson version in Japan. Punch - Out ! ! After Nintendo 's license to use Mike Tyson as a special Punch - Out ! ! character expired, it replaced Tyson with a fictional character called Mr. Dream and re-released the game for the NES as simply Punch - Out ! ! in limited quantities in North America in August 1990 and in Europe in 1991. Despite its short run as a NES cartridge, this is the version used in all Virtual Console releases, Animal Crossing as well as the NES Classic Edition compilation. Other releases In Animal Crossing for the Nintendo GameCube, it is one of the rarer unlockable NES games that can be obtained within the game. Punch - Out ! ! Featuring Mr. Dream was released on Wii 's Virtual Console service on March 30, 2007 in Europe and Australia, on April 3, 2007 in Japan, and on April 16, 2007 in North America ; it was released on the Nintendo 3DS 's Virtual Console service on February 1, 2012 in Japan, on March 1, 2012 in Europe and Australia, and on March 8, 2012 in North America ; it was released on the Wii U 's Virtual Console service in North America, Europe, and Australia on March 20, 2013, and in Japan on June 5, 2013. Reception Reception Review scores Publication Score AllGame GameSpot 8 / 10 Gen4 90 % Punch - Out ! ! has mainly been well received by critics. A GameSpot reader poll ranked it as the 6th greatest NES game. It was rated the 17th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power 's Top 200 Games list. In August 2008, Nintendo Power listed it as the sixth best Nintendo Entertainment System video game, praising it for putting arcade - style fun over realism. Author Steve L. Kent called it the second major game of 1987. Author Nathan Lockard cited the graphics, violence, controls, and the variety of it being a `` true classic '' and one of the best NES games. GamesRadar ranked it the 11th best NES game ever made. The staff called it a `` brilliant puzzle game ( disguised ) as a sports game. '' Punch - Out ! ! sold in excess of 2 million copies. Game Informer ranked the Mike Tyson version as its 14th favorite game ever in 2001. The staff noted that no boxing game since Punch - Out has been as `` beloved. '' Other appearances Punch - Out ! ! was featured in the comic books of Valiant 's Nintendo Comics System. Three stories are based around Little Mac, Doc Louis, and other boxers from the NES version and Mac briefly appears in the comic that introduces the story of Captain N : The Game Master. Mac does n't appear in the Captain N stories himself ; however, King Hippo is featured as a villain. Also, in the opening sequence of the Captain N TV series, the protagonist Kevin Keene was seen playing Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! before being forced into a vortex that formed in his television 's screen. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Little Mac appears as a regular Trophy and an Assist Trophy. In the same game, the music from the Manhattan skyline scene in Punch - Out ! ! can be heard in the song titled `` Famicom Medley. '' In the Wii game titled Captain Rainbow, Little Mac appears as a supporting character. Little Mac makes his debut as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Punch - Out ! ! made an appearance on The Tonight Show on October 29, 2014. Mike Tyson, being one of the guests that night, was challenged by the host, Jimmy Fallon. He was asked to defeat himself in the game on live TV. The real Mike Tyson was defeated in the first round and lost by TKO. The Training Sequence is covered in Family Guy ( S13Ep4 - A Fistful of Meg ) by Meg running behind Quagmire, who is riding the bike. Power Punch II Main article : Power Punch II After the release of Punch - Out ! !, Krome Studios Melbourne began developing an official sequel starring Mike Tyson with manager Don King. Originally titled Mike Tyson 's Intergalactic Power Punch, the game was supposed to take the series into outer space where Tyson would participate in an intergalactic boxing tournament against various space aliens. The game 's production ran into immediate trouble, however, following Tyson 's 1991 incarceration for the rape of Desiree Washington. Beam changed the Tyson character 's name to Mark Tyler and modified King but did little to change Tyson 's in - game character sprite. Nintendo saw the game and disliked it, refusing to publish it due to lack of quality. Eventually, ASC Games published the title, and the game was released on the NES as Power Punch II, despite the fact that it was the first Power Punch title. References Jump up ^ `` Investigating a Glove Interface ''. Iwata Asks : Punch - Out ! !. Nintendo of America, Inc. 13 September 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2010. Jump up ^ `` Profile : Minoru Arakawa ''. N - Sider. 2003 - 01 - 02. Retrieved 2009 - 05 - 09. ^ Jump up to : The ultimate history of video games... - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2010 - 06 - 16. ISBN 9780307560872. Retrieved April 12, 2012. Jump up ^ 賞品 版 パンチ アウト ( in Japanese ). Archived from the original on September 12, 2007. Retrieved 2009 - 05 - 09. Jump up ^ `` Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! ''. Famicom World. Retrieved 2009 - 05 - 09. Jump up ^ `` Bulletin Board -- Nintendo Classics Reissued ! ''. Nintendo Power ( 18 ) : 96. November -- December 1990. Jump up ^ `` NES Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! ''. nindb. Kontek.net. Retrieved 25 March 2015. 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Jump up ^ Cork, Jeff ( 2009 - 11 - 16 ). `` Game Informer 's Top 100 Games of All Time ( Circa Issue 100 ) ''. Game Informer. Retrieved 2013 - 12 - 10. Jump up ^ `` The Unofficial Captain N Home Page ''. Ldloveszh.tripod.com. Retrieved 2011 - 07 - 11. External links Punch - Out ! ! at MobyGames Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! at NinDB Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! Fanpage ! ! Punch - Out ! ! Main series Punch - Out ! ! ( 1983 ) Super ( 1984 ) Punch - Out ! ! ( 1987 ) Super ( 1994 ) Punch - Out ! ! ( 2009 ) Characters Bald Bull Glass Joe Great Tiger King Hippo Little Mac Piston Hondo Soda Popinski Von Kaiser Related titles Arm Wrestling Teleroboxer Power Punch II Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Fight Night Round 2 Mike Tyson Fights Tyson vs. Green Tyson vs. Frazier Berbick vs. Tyson Tyson vs. Smith Tyson vs. Thomas Tyson vs. Tucker Tyson vs. Biggs Tyson vs. Holmes Tyson vs. Tubbs Tyson vs. Spinks Tyson vs. Bruno Tyson vs. C. Williams Tyson vs. Douglas Tyson vs. Tillman Tyson vs. Stewart Tyson vs. Ruddock Tyson vs. Ruddock II Tyson vs. McNeeley Tyson vs. Mathis Bruno vs. Tyson II Seldon vs. Tyson Tyson vs. Holyfield Holyfield vs. Tyson II Tyson vs. Botha Tyson vs. Norris Tyson vs. Francis Tyson vs. Savarese Tyson vs. Golota Tyson vs. Nielsen Lewis vs. Tyson Tyson vs. Etienne Tyson vs. D. Williams Tyson vs. McBride Important figures Cus D'Amato Jimmy Jacobs Bill Cayton Teddy Atlas Kevin Rooney Richie Giachetti Don King Robin Givens ( wife ) Alan Dershowitz Bobby Stewart In popular culture Film Tyson ( 1995 ) Black and White Tyson ( 2008 ) Television Fallen Champ : The Untold Story of Mike Tyson Taking on Tyson Bad Crazy Mike Tyson Mysteries Miscellaneous Balrog Drederick Tatum I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson Mike Tyson 's Punch - Out ! ! 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Question: how to throw uppercut in mike tyson punch out
Answer: the player needs to press the start button once a star is earned