!, a spinoff of the series titled Arm Wrestling, a highly popular version for the NES originally known as Mike Tyson's Punch Out!

The arcade game introduced recurring characters such as Glass Joe, Bald Bull, and Mr. Sandman.

It was also the debut project at Nintendo for composer Koji Kondo, better known for his later contributions to the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series.

The player must time his punches, dodges and blocks in order to defeat the opposing boxer.

Opponents' impending offensive moves are telegraphed by subtle eye changes (the whites of the eyes flash yellow), but the player must ultimately predict what moves the opponent will make and react appropriately.

The player has one 3-minute round to score a knockout and will automatically lose if time runs out.

A fighter who is knocked down three times in one round will be unable to rise, leading to a knockout.

The top monitor is used to display statistics and fighter portraits, while the bottom one is the main game display (similar to Nintendo's Multi-Screen Game & Watch titles and the Nintendo DS) with the gameplay and power meters (representing stamina) for each fighter.

A large button on the console allows the player to deliver a powerful uppercut or right hook, but only when the "KO" meter on the display is completely full.

Once the meter is full, the corner man's digitized speech encourages the player to either "Put him away!"

Nintendo had an excessive number of video monitors after the success of the Donkey Kong series, basing the purchases on the estimate for the demand for arcade games.

They chose to make a boxing game, which utilized the ability to zoom in and out of an object.

This was a feature more commonly found in games that involve flying such as flight simulators, but the developers chose boxing because they thought it would be a different way to use it.

Miyamoto explained that that's why they were interested in microchips that could perform zooming and show pictures at a similar size as a laserdisc.

When he asked if they could use processing on the hardware side to rotate the image, they said "it's not impossible", changing from "it can't be done.

They were stuck at that point, but thought that a boxing arena has big lights and banners hanging from the ceiling with things like "World Heavyweight Title Match" written on them.

The game's title music, also heard in the arcade version of Super Punch-Out!!

[11] In North America, Punch-Out took the arcade market by storm according to Play Meter magazine in 1984, capitalizing on the success of sports video games following Track & Field (1983).

The character features a set of wireframe alternate costumes based on his appearance from the original arcade games.

In 1987, the growing popularity of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) caused the development and release of Punch-Out!!

In particular, professional boxer Mike Tyson was added as the game's final boss.

series, that brought back many characters from the previous games, as well as introducing Disco Kid and Donkey Kong as opponents.