“I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This” – This Freshly Released Punch-Out!! NES Prototype Has Historians Stumped

The pre-Tyson build has now been dumped online.

A rare pre-Mike Tyson prototype of Nintendo’s 1987 NES title, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, has appeared online, giving “a basically unheard of” insight into the early development of a first-party Nintendo game, while stumping historians in the process.

The NES prototype cartridge was shown off yesterday in a video uploaded to the Video Game History Foundation’s YouTube channel, where the foundation’s founder and director, Frank Cifaldi, stated, “I’ve never seen anything like this” in his 25-plus years of handling and studying NES prototypes.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

The pre-Tyson build has now been dumped online.

A rare pre-Mike Tyson prototype of Nintendo’s 1987 NES title, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, has appeared online, giving “a basically unheard of” insight into the early development of a first-party Nintendo game, while stumping historians in the process.

The NES prototype cartridge was shown off yesterday in a video uploaded to the Video Game History Foundation’s YouTube channel, where the foundation’s founder and director, Frank Cifaldi, stated, “I’ve never seen anything like this” in his 25-plus years of handling and studying NES prototypes.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

Advertisements

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *