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Champion Boxing

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Short description: 1984 video game
Champion Boxing
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)Sega
Publisher(s)Sega
Designer(s)Yoji Ishii[1]
Programmer(s)Yu Suzuki[2]
Artist(s)Rieko Kodama
Platform(s)SG-1000, Arcade,[2] MSX
ReleaseSG-1000
Arcade
Genre(s)Sports, fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Champion Boxing (チャンピオンボクシング, "Boxing Champion") is a 1984 boxing sports video game developed and published by Sega for the SG-1000,[5] and later ported to the arcades,[6] only in Japan and Europe. It was Sega-AM2 founder and leader Yu Suzuki's debut creation, as well as that of Rieko Kodama.[2] In 1985, a successor of Champion Boxing titled Champion Pro Wrestling was released in the arcades, and ported to the SG-1000 and the MSX home computer the same year. However, this is a professional wrestling game instead of a boxing game.

Development

Yu Suzuki described Champion Boxing as a minor project with very little staff, and said that because of this it allowed him to learn the process of games development with very little pressure.[7] Because the game was understaffed for designers, Suzuki actually contributed some of the drawings for the various punching animations.[7]

According to Suzuki, the game was developed for the SG-1000 first, and then the arcade version was created by simply installing an SG-1000 in an arcade cabinet.[7]

Pengo makes a cameo after a KO.

References

  1. ↑ Szczepaniak, John (2018). The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers Vol. 3. SMG Szczepaniak. pp. 274–276. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 GameCenter CX - 2nd Season, Episode 3. Retrieved on 2009-04-04
  3. ↑ "Home Video Games(Japanese, top-right)". Game Machine Magazine 15th July '85. Amusement Press Inc., Osaka, Japan. 15 July 1985. p. 16. https://archive.org/details/game-machine-magazine-19850715p/page/n8/mode/1up. Retrieved 25 August 2023. 
  4. ↑ (in ja) Sega Arcade History. Tokyo: Enterbrain. 2002. ISBN 9784757707900. http://shmuplations.com/akiranagai/. Retrieved 11 September 2018. 
  5. ↑ Champion Boxing , GameSpy
  6. ↑ Champion Boxing at the Killer List of Videogames
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Marley, Scott (December 2016). "Q&A with Yu Suzuki". Retro Gamer (Future Publishing) (163): 61. 




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