New Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! easter egg 29 years later

[vwalbridge]

Not a "game-changing" easter-egg, but pretty cool nonetheless:

[pbj]

At risk of sounding like Howard it's not really an Easter egg, either.  A very cool unnoticed detail but....

 

Punch Out is also very hard to play with an arcade joystick.

[Malenko]

At risk of sounding like Howard it's not really an Easter egg, either.  A very cool unnoticed detail but....

 

Punch Out is also very hard to play with an arcade joystick.

At the risk of sounding like Howard its not really unknown. I was told about this when I was a kid, I didnt find it but Ive known about it.There's crowd cues for more than 1 boxer 

[pbj]

Really?  Like what?

[Howard_Casto]

I vaguely remember some of them.  I was rather young when it came out and remember my older cousins figuring this stuff out.  I don't think it's so much as they are unknown tricks but rather this game was pre-internet and many of the secrets have been forgotten again.  A lot of the boxers have more obvious cues, so there really isn't a need for the more obscure ones.

Also screw both you guys.

[Malenko]

Really?  Like what?

I've long forgotten. But it's the same bearded guy if memory serves.

[pbj]

Riiiight.

[Umpa]

That's cool played this countless times never noticed that trick! Thanks!

[RetroGreg]

If I remember correctly I think one of the crowd members takes a picture when you're supposed to punch another boxer?

[pbj]

Bald bull when he does his bull rush attack on you.  Guy at bottom right of the crowd has his camera flash.

Nobody noticed until one of the designers mentioned it a few years ago.  It is VERY subtle.

[RetroGreg]

Thanks for remembering that one. It was driving me crazy.

[vwalbridge]

Punch Out is also very hard to play with an arcade joystick.

I played Mike Tyson's Punch Out on a Playchoice at ZapCon. While I may prefer the "tried and true" NES controller, I found that the joystick controls were just fine. Only took me a few minutes to adjust and found that a joystick and buttons work just fine with Punch Out.

Matter of fact, the Playchoice version of Punch Out had someone playing on it nearly every minute of that convention.