June 18th, 2009 by David Hinkle
It’s tough being a super hero. If you’re Dr. Doom and you’re feeling down, you can just blow something up. If you’re The Thing, well, all you can really do is look in a mirror and cry to yourself.
That was before Punch-Out!!, though, with a new ad (courtesy of Gamervision) popping up in comics showing two beefy brawlers finding a proper outlet for their stress. Oh, we really wouldn’t suggest playing with the Wiimote and Nunchuk, super guys. The game is way better with the classic controls.
[Via Kotaku]
Super heroes duke it out in Punch-Out!! originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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April 11th, 2009 by Ben Gilbert
We know, we know: You woke up this morning thinking to yourself, “I really need a great way to waste this crisp $90 bill in my pocket, but I don’t know how!” Rest your worried head, friend, because Amazon.com has an answer for you in Punch-Out!! star Little Mac’s Boxing Glove. You read that right — not the game, but a single, signed boxing glove.
Ignoring all reality and allowing for the possibility that a video game character physically signed this $90 glove, this “limited edition” punching package arrives mounted on a 15” x 11” wood frame and ships with an “engraved plate donning the Punch-Out!! logo.” Head right on over to Amazon because supplies are assuredly going to run out … less than quickly. Oh, and just in case we weren’t clear enough initially: Punch-Out!! is not included when this glove becomes available on May 18 alongside the game.
Update: Commenter heyo007 pointed out that Amazon also has a “Heavyweight Contender Kit” as well, in case you were trying to round out your $90 Little Mac signed glove purchase with a $35 “inflatable desktop punching bag, King Hippo crown replica, boxer shorts and Doc Louis’s Remedy chocolate bar” purchase.
Little Mac signed boxing glove $90 on Amazon … without Punch-Out!! originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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March 31st, 2009 by Xav de Matos
Craigslist provides another bit of strange, gaming related news, this time with EDP Casting sending out a casting call for Punch-Out!! lookalikes. The post is looking for New York natives to fill the boxing gloves of Piston Honda, King Hippo, Great Tiger and, of course, Little Mac. The listing doesn’t specify what the casting call is for but we’d like to dream the entire classic NES title would be put to music and run on Broadway — with the help of Andrew Lloyd Webber, of course.
If you think you’ve got the chops to jump into Mac’s pink sweatsuit make sure to take note that EDP is looking for someone with “real fire” in their eyes. So, you really have to want the part … or at least undergo some experimental surgery.
[Via GoNintendo]
Casting call looking for ‘Punch-Out!!’ lookalikes originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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March 6th, 2009 by David Hinkle
In Touch Ruminations, former DS and Wii Fanboy Lead David Hinkle talks about whatever he feels like. He’s a jerk like that. This week, it’s all about boys, blobs, and little Macs, and how mixing the old with the new is a good thing. The opinions expressed here belong to the author and don’t necessarily reflect those of Joystiq, Weblogs Inc. or its affiliates.
This week has been an exciting one for Wii owners. First and foremost, A Boy and His Blob is making a comeback! On top of that, Nintendo informed us that old-school controls will be included in Punch-Out!! for Wii. It’s a wonderful mixture of old and new, and shows us that there is an incredible well of older titles that can be tapped for today’s market in this manner. Nintendo has been doing that with the Virtual Console, presenting older, dated games via a new, easy-to-use interface, bringing them to a new audience. It’s a wonderful mixture of classic and new sensibilities, and something I would like to see more of. Of course, A Boy and His Blob and Punch-Out!! could both be horrible, horrible games for all I know, so take that as you will.
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Touch Ruminations: Mixing the Old with the New originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 27th, 2007 by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff
Craftster user obesolete rendered this
extremely familiar scene from
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (or, as it appears on the
Virtual Console and in the later console release,
Not Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!) in cross-stitch. Bald Bull has just totally smashed the extremely undersized Little Mac, stripping him (we imagine) of the star he'd been saving up for an opportune moment.
Cross-stitch is a
good medium for
game crafts, because, much like
Perler beads, it naturally lends itself to designs formed from small squares. NES pixels, of course, translate perfectly. That doesn't prevent us from feeling a bit subversive sometimes for using traditional crafting methods to render weird, nontraditional stuff like game screens. No doubt obesolete got the same giggle out of doing this.
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October 25th, 2007 by David Hinkle
Filed under: Video
This usually isn't our kind of thing, but we just had to post it because not only is it a dead-on excellent Mike Tyson impression, but a masterful use of sprites. Seriously,
Mike Tyson's Brunch-Out!!! is one hilarious skit. But, you should be warned: this video is
NSFW (that means it's not safe for work). Considering what time it is, we're sure most of you aren't at work right now anyway.
So, enjoy.
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October 18th, 2007 by David Hinkle
Filed under: News, Screens
Oh man, why couldn't he have been a playable character?
We guess we can't be too upset, considering he still made his way into the game. This is something we've been dying for since the first game on the N64.
Little Mac has two different attacks, his swift jabs and his special move, the uppercut. In fact, now our thoughts are drifting toward a resurrection for the franchise on the Wii.
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