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The opening and closing/"credits" music for Punch Out!! is "Look Sharp-Be Sharp", composed by Mahlon Merrick for the 1942–1960 radio and television program Gillette Cavalcade of Sports.
In 1989, Computer and Video Games magazine said the NES version of "the great boxing arcade game" had "big, brilliantly drawn and animated sprites, a brilliant control method and utterly superlative gameplay", making it "definitely THE best boxing game available on any machine".
They stated it bashes "the proverbial s@*t out of any other home boxing game on any other console or computer" and it proves "that even if Nintendo's hardware may be technologically naff, they can still squeeze an excellent game onto a cartridge".
originally titled is a 1987 boxing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
When Nintendo's license had expired with Mike Tyson, his likeness was replaced by a fictional character named Mr. Dream.
Course tournament held in September 1987. 10,000 units were producedhalf were given as high score prizes, and the rest were given as a lottery prize.
Nintendo would release the Mike Tyson version of Punch-Out!! in Japan soon after its North American release.
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