My favorite game for the NES. Period. This game is so simple yet so deep. No boxing game to date has surpased the....
You are Little Mac and you are the new challenger in a fictional heavy weight boxing league. You fight your way through a series of cartoony boxers each with their own style. There is King Hippo, a fat boxer who doesn't move too well and if you knock him down he can't get back up. There is Great Tiger, an Indian magician who will try to trick into thinking he can fly around the ring. Each boxer has there own fighting style and their own trick to beating them. And just because you know the trick doesn't mean it makes it easy. This game requires split second reactions and reflexes.
The boxer who gave me the most trouble everytime I played this game as a youth was Soda Popinski, the drunk Russian giant. I don't know what it is, but no matter how many times I faced him, I still had problems. I would beat him probably 8 times out of 10 but could never get that clean win, he would always managed to knock me down at least once.
I never did beat Tyson starting from the beginning and playing all the way through. I could beat him with the cheat code to get to him. But never from beginning to end.
I can still tell you every boxers name, and how to beat them. I can still get all the way to Soda Popinski without losing every time I play (I hate Soda Popinski, that laugh drives me nuts). Go find this game. This is a must have if you own an NES. It is truly one of the classics of the 8 bit era and a milestone game in my gaming life.