Rissa di box art: Punch Out!! | Nintendo Life

Hello, e benvenuti a un'altra edizione di Rissa di box art!

Before we get cracking with this week’s crawl, let’s have a gander at how things went down last time. We took a look at the GBA launch title Presentazione dell'esperienza Teen-Horror dell'estate: Velocità massima, pitting North America and Europe against Japan. Sorprendentemente, although the Japanese variant is pretty awesome in its own right, it appears the vast majority of you prefered the more straight forward approach taken for the western design. As such, North America and Europe took the gold with 67% del voto.

Questa settimana, we’re going to be throwing the NES classic Punch Out!! into the ring for a proper good brawl. Originally released to the public in 1987 as Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, the game actually arrived in Japan as a special gold edition earlier the same year, available to competitors in the Famicom Disk System’s Famicom Golf: U.S. Course tournament. When the license to use Mike Tyson expired, Nintendo relaunched the game using an alternative character called Mr. Sogno.

We’re going to be looking at all three versions for this edition of Box Art Brawl, so get your boxing gloves on and vote for your favourite down below!

Assicurati di esprimere i tuoi voti nel sondaggio qui sotto; but first, diamo un'occhiata agli stessi disegni di box art.

Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!

The original public release of Punch-Out!! incuded Mike Tyson on the front cover after the former founder and president of NoA Minoru Arakawa attended a boxing match featuring Tyson. He was reportedly so blown away by his abilities that he became inspired to include his likeness in the game. It’s certainly a striking image, and it’s perhaps something that EA or 2K would love to have on the front cover of their sports games these days.

Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Sogno

Swapping out the photographic image of Mike Tyson, the relaunch of Punch-Out!! featured Mr. Dream on the front cover, albeit in the same pose as the previous edition. The US and EU variants of this version are pretty much identical, however the EU version refrained from including the red ‘Nintendo Entertainment System’ strip at the top. All in all, it’s a pretty good alternative to the original design!

Punch Out!! Edizione oro

Before the public release of Punch-Out!! competitors in a Famicom Golf tournament got their hands on one of these bad boys. There were reportedly only 10,000 produced, and obviously they make no visual reference to Mike Tyson, having occured prior to the inclusion of the sports star in the public release. It’s a great, minimal design and would make for a pretty incredible collector’s item for fans today.

Grazie per aver votato! Ci vediamo la prossima volta per un altro round della Box Art Brawl.