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What was the arcade Punch-Out!! like?

Punch-Out!!

Released
1984
Made by
Nintendo; music by Koji Kondo, his first game
How it played
Two stacked monitors, a wireframe boxer you saw through, and opponents who telegraphed every punch
Legacy
The NES version with Mike Tyson in 1987 made it famous a second time

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The file

Two screens, one above the other, and a see-through green boxer so you could watch Glass Joe and Bald Bull wind up. The arcade original was about reading tells, and its stat-tracking top screen was pure 1984 tech.

The tune that later played in every NES kid's head was written for this cabinet by Koji Kondo before he wrote Mario's. The Tyson version is the famous one; the arcade is the better game.

Sources: Wikipedia — Punch-Out!! (arcade game)

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