AndrewTS Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3137904 Super Punch-Out Enters GameCube Ring SNES classic included with EA Sports Fight Night Round 2. By Garnett Lee Continuing the recent partnership that brought Mario to NBA Street vol. 3, Nintendo and Electronic Arts today announced that the classic boxing favorite Super Punch-Out from the SNES will be included with the GameCube version of Fight Night Round 2. Currently scheduled to ship on March 1, the bonus helps mark EA's boxing series debut on the GameCube. Not only will GameCube players get to enjoy a classic, its main character will get a taste of the modern gaming ring. Little Mac, the main character from the game, can be unlocked in Fight Night to take on its over 30 real world boxers. Kudo Tsunoda, executive producer, EA Chicago said, "We grew up as fans of the Punch-Out!! series that delivered hands-down, the best boxing gaming experience of its time. Now we're offering Nintendo GameCube gamers double the boxing excitement with one of the best sports titles of the past as well as the most realistic and knuckle-clenching boxing game of today." You don't need a press pass to keep up with Tsunoda, he posts his blog right here on 1UP and moderates a club for fans of the game. I'd hope for an actual Punch-Out! sequel, but considering that Nintendo already skipped a console generation where they could have given us one (but made Teleroboxer on VB, for some odd reason), the series' lack of popularity in Japan, and reluctance to even do a NES Classics release of Punch-Out!, I can only shudder at EA getting their hands on Nintendo's franchises. But hey, Little Mac gets to smack around some new competition, so at least there's another bright side to it.
BUTT Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 I think this is a good idea. If it's popular enough, hopefully Nintendo will make a new Punch-Out, even though I know it isn't popular in Japan so it'll be hard getting through to Nintendo's management either way.
Anya Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 I heard about this last month. Kind of cool. I'm not going to get the game just for Super Punch out though. I can play the SNES cart.
Matt Young Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 My cousin, a huge boxing game fan, told me about this a couple weeks ago. It's a pretty cool extra, but I'm getting the Xbox version if I buy the game at all. Live play is far more important to me, especially when I have the SPO cart and ROM.
Guest DVD Spree Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 Fight Night Round 2 should be included free with [/i]Super Punch Out!![/i]. It's okay, just not that huge an improvement over the original. Although the Latino hip-hop throughout the game kicks all kinds of ass.
Ced Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 I'd mark out for a Fight Night rendered into the Punch-Out 8-bit graphics and style complete with telegraphed patterns and the between round cutscenes with Doc, but sans the KO everyone in under a minute crap from the SNES version. De La Hoya as Don Flamenco? I'm so there.
Guest Astro Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 Little Mac wasn't in the SNES version. You wrote your own name in as the boxer and were blond, not dark haired like lil Mac.
ChrisMWaters Posted January 27, 2005 Report Posted January 27, 2005 Screenshots of Little Mac in Fight Night 2 Oh, and a fun comment from a writer for Gamespot.com "While I love this one and everything, I can't help but be continually weirded out by this whole branching out of Nintendo characters in other publisher's games. Mario is now apparently some kind of street basketball aficionado and a DDR freak on top of that, Link got his fight on in Soul Calibur II, and now Little Mac is making his way into a mainstream boxing title. I'm all for the idea of cross-pollenization, but really, what's next? Samus teaming up with 007 in the next Bond game? Hey, she'd certainly be more interesting than your average Bond girl, that's for sure."
Guest sek69 Posted January 27, 2005 Report Posted January 27, 2005 So when you play as Little Mac in Fight Night, do you get vital between-rounds tips like DODGE HIS PUNCH, THEN COUNTERPUNCH!
ChrisMWaters Posted January 27, 2005 Report Posted January 27, 2005 I'm just wondering if Mike Tyson is in the game. That'd be a perfect rematch.
DangerousDamon Posted January 27, 2005 Report Posted January 27, 2005 Anybody notice that the character looks like the Blond Guy from Super Punch Out but has Little Mac's name?
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 27, 2005 Report Posted January 27, 2005 He should just be a green outline (he was just an outline in the SNES game, right?). That'd be pretty cool looking. So when you play as Little Mac in Fight Night, do you get vital between-rounds tips like DODGE HIS PUNCH, THEN COUNTERPUNCH! "Join the Nintendo Fan Club!"
AndrewTS Posted January 27, 2005 Author Report Posted January 27, 2005 He should just be a green outline (he was just an outline in the SNES game, right?). That'd be pretty cool looking. So when you play as Little Mac in Fight Night, do you get vital between-rounds tips like DODGE HIS PUNCH, THEN COUNTERPUNCH! "Join the Nintendo Fan Club!" The arcade version - green outline. SNES version - transparent during the fight, but at the start and end you were opaque. The SNES SPO had boxers taken from both POs and threw in new ones. Little Mac wasn't in the SNES version. You wrote your own name in as the boxer and were blond, not dark haired like lil Mac. Yeah, I know, but I'd pretty much always seen him referred to as the "new" Little Mac...and apparently that's Nintendo's story too.
ChrisMWaters Posted January 27, 2005 Report Posted January 27, 2005 Little Mac wasn't in the SNES version. You wrote your own name in as the boxer and were blond, not dark haired like lil Mac. Yeah, I know, but I'd pretty much always seen him referred to as the "new" Little Mac...and apparently that's Nintendo's story too. And with good reason. Here's what happened to the ORIGINAL Little Mac... http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0702/
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