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'''Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!''', a.k.a. '''Punch-Out!!''', is a boxing game for the [[NES]] developed and published by [[Nintendo]] in [[1987]]. When it was first published in the United States, it was known as '''Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!''', but it was later re-released as '''Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream'''.  It is a port of the [[Punch-Out!!]] and [[Super Punch-Out!!]] [[arcade]] games with some variations, and is considered among the best games released for the NES platform.  Punch-Out!! features a boxer named Little Mac working his way up the professional boxing circuits, facing a series of colorful, fictional boxers, leading to a final fight with real-life boxer, the then-World Heavyweight Champion, Mike Tyson in the original version.  Mike Tyson was replaced with a fictional boxer named Mr. Dream in the re-release.

Genyo Takeda, producer of the Punch-Out!! arcade games, directed the NES versions. Because the NES was not as powerful as the arcade hardware, Takeda and his crew realized that it would be impossible for the NES port to faithfully emulate the arcade graphics. Instead of displaying the player as a wire-framed or transparent boxer, they made him small so that players could easily see opponents over his head. He was given the name "Little Mac", and a rough plot, background music track played during fights, animated cutscenes and a password system for saving progress were all added to the design of the game.  Around the time the Gold Version was released, Nintendo of America's founder and former president Minoru Arakawa attended a boxing match featuring Mike Tyson. While watching the boxer fight, Arakawa was inspired to use the athlete's name and likeness in the upcoming port of the Punch-Out!! series.