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Like I said yesterday, my mind is overflowing with random facts. I’ll be pouring some out here, subject by subject, three at a time. Today’s subject is the 1987 Nintendo game Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
• Soda Popinski first appeared in Super Punch-Out!! in 1984, where he was known as Vodka Drunkenski. While his new name was more politically correct, some of his quotes between rounds were very consistent with his old raging alcoholic persona (”I can’t drive, so I’m gonna walk all over you!”)
• After Nintendo’s contract with Mike Tyson expired, the game was re-released as Punch-Out!! with Tyson replaced by Mr. Dream. From Dreamland. His fighting style was exactly the same as Iron Mike’s.
• The theme music for Von Kaiser, Great Tiger and Super Macho Man is taken from “Ride of the Valkyries.”
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Oh man I loved that game! I remember before it was Mike Tyson’s. Anyone else use to press “select” between rounds for the trainer to give you extra life on one of the next rounds? Punch out!!!Or that you had to hold down A and B at the beginning of the round with Mr.Dream/Mike Tyson so your energy wouldn’t drain. Punch Out and Kid Icarus were both staples in my childhood.
posted by Jarred Hanson on 2-8-2007 at 9:07 pm
I still maintain that King Hippo was the best character design for a video game ever.
posted by Beth on 2-9-2007 at 8:56 am
I Think I Can BEAT Mike Tyson. Actually i did, in 8th grade…
DYK: When Mike Tyson was recently booked on his recent drunken tirade, google news pulled the ‘Vodka Drunkenski’ cartoon image as the thumbnail
posted by Jay on 2-9-2007 at 2:12 pm