"Urban Champion" was first released in Japan on November 14, 1984, for the Family Computer. It was an adaptation of the Game &amp; Watch video game called "Boxing". It was released in the arcades as "Vs. Urban Champion" in 1985. It was later released in North America in August 1986 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and in Europe some time in 1986. "Urban Champion" was re-released for the Nintendo e-Reader, and then later on the Virtual Console for the Wii and the Wii U. "Urban Champion" was later slightly altered in autostereoscopic 3D by Arika and released by Nintendo on the Nintendo 3DS as a downloadable title in the 3D Classics series on July 13, 2011, in Japan and the rest of the world on August 18, 2011. This release was featured amongst other games from the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System to be released for the 3DS on a tech demo called "Classic Games" at E3 2010.