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Let’s rewind, for a moment, all the way back to August of 2013. Retired heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson was hanging out in the green room of Fox Studio in L.A. for a taping of Fox Sports Live. He’s getting ready to play one of the most iconic games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a game that he happens to have a headlining role in: Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
Many of us know the title well with its tight responsiveness, pseudo-rhythmic gameplay, and outlandish characters. So it’s surprising to see how foreign the basic controls are to the game’s namesake, a person that in real life, began his professional boxing career with an astonishing 36 win streak. Sadly, his in-game career does not fare as well.
Tyson promptly loses against Glass Joe, the game’s first opponent meant to be an easy victory for the player. That said, he obviously didn’t make it to the notoriously difficult 8-bit version of himself, which serves as the game’s final boss. But despite his quick defeat, the former boxer was certainly having fun, enthusiastically twitching and laughing loudly as Little Mac took an absolute beating on screen. We hope you enjoy Mike Tyson’s first experience with the classic Nintendo game as much as he did.
