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Little Mac reads every tell from behind his gloves in Punch-Out!! Glass Joe's slow windup and King Hippo's open mouth are lessons in a ladder of cartoon boxers. Doc Louis shouts from the corner while Mac waits for the pattern instead of mashing.
Nintendo's NES boxing career is the one later Punch-Out games are measured against. The view stays over Mac's shoulder, so the opponent's face is the puzzle and Mac's own body is mostly arms and a star punch.
A missed pattern ends the round faster than a wild swing can save it. The bracket of rivals, from the glass-jawed opener to the champion, is the campaign.
Same series is the tight name match. Same franchise is the wider family. Same platform is other games on the systems named above.
The series list above is the whole family set in this catalog.
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