Punch-Out!! (Wii)

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Punch-Out
North American box art
Developer(s)	Next Level Games
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date	JP July 23, 2009 NA May 18, 2009 EU May 22, 2009 AUS August 27, 2009
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB:E10
Media	Wii Optical Disc
Input methods	Wii Remote Wii Nunchuck Wii Balance Board

Punch-Out!! (パンチアウト!!, Panchi-Auto!!^?) is the fifth mainline video game in the Punch-Out!! series, and the third released on consoles. It was developed by Canadian game developer Next Level Games, released on the Wii and published by Nintendo. It was first revealed at Nintendo's conference on October 2, 2008. It was released on May 18, 2009, but was released on May 16th at the Nintendo World Store launch party. In an interview on October 9, 2008, Charlie Scibetta, Senior Director of Corporate Communications for Nintendo of America, confirmed motion control will be used in this game. NES-style controls were also confirmed to be in the game.

Boxers

• Little Mac
  • Giga Mac (Only in Head-to-Head Mode)

Minor Circuit

• #3 Glass Joe

• #2 Von Kaiser

• #1 Disco Kid ^(debut)

• Champion: King Hippo

Major Circuit

• #3 Piston Hondo

• #2 Bear Hugger

• #1 Great Tiger

• Champion: Don Flamenco

World Circuit

• #4 Aran Ryan

• #3 Soda Popinski

• #2 Bald Bull

• #1 Super Macho Man

• Champion: Mr. Sandman

Title Defense

Once Mac becomes the champion, it's up to him to defend his title. All of the boxers he fought before will now challenge him for the title, with new moves and tricks. The "circuits" are split into World B, World A, and World S, containing the boxers from the Minor, Major, and World Circuits, respectively.

Last Stand

Mac's Last Stand is the "epilogue" of the game, simply put after the main Campaign. After beating TD Mr. Sandman, Little Mac decides to retire with a bang: fight every boxer he has ever faced at random, until he loses three times. You can encounter Donkey Kong in this mode. If you lose 3 matches, Little Mac will retire. The Career mode will then no longer be playable on the profile. If you manage to fight 10 opponents without losing, you unlock a toggled Exhibition setting called Champions Mode. In this mode, the red flashes a character makes when he is about to attack and the yellow flashes he makes when a star punch is available are gone, and any hit from an opponent is an Instant Knockdown.

Donkey Kong as the secret fighter

• Secret Fighter: Donkey Kong

Other characters

• Doc Louis

• Referee

Trivia

• This the first and currently, the only game to have most foreign characters speak different languages besides English.
• When Mac loses the first time, Doc will tell him he can practice against his current opponent in Exhibition as a hologram that can not tire Mac or hurt him.
• This is the first game in the Punch-Out!! series in 15 years, when Super Punch-Out!! was released.
• If Mac loses to anyone in Career mode, the opponent's win record is increased (like if Mac loses to Glass Joe at least once, his record will go from 1-99 to 2-99). This does not apply to Mac's last stand or Exhibition, however.
• Princess Peach from the Mario series was initially planned to be an opponent in this game, though she was scrapped due to the possible negative reception that could stem from having violence against women in the game during development.
• This is the first Punch-Out!! game to have a multiplayer mode.
• A 100% playthrough requires the player to lose at least four times.
  • The player needs to lose three times in Mac's Last Stand to retire.
  • Glass Joe has a challenge in Exhibition Mode which requires the player to lose by decision after knocking him down 3 times.
• Every opponent in this game has at least 1 infraction.

Credits

Production Team

Programming: Erik Benediktson, Duane Bieber, Chris Deas, Scott Hansen, Bryce Holliday, Jonathan Kift, Gary Shaw, Andrew Top, Hewan Woolley, Jason Wylie

Sound Design: Matt Harty, Scott McFadyen, Denise Ng

Music of NES Punch-Out!! Arrangement and Additional Music Composition: Mike Peacock, Darren Radtke, Chad York

Voice Acting: Christian Bernard (Glass Joe), Matt Harty (Little Mac), Riley Inge (Doc Louis, Mr. Sandman), Mike Inglehart (Super Macho Man), Horst Laxton (Von Kaiser), Donny Lucas (Disco Kid), Ihor Mota (Soda Popinski), Takashi Nagasako (Donkey Kong), Richard Newman (Bear Hugger), Juan Amador Pulido (Don Flamenco), Sumit Seru (Great Tiger), Kenji Takahashi (Piston Hondo), Stephen Webster (Aran Ryan), Erse Yagan (Bald Bull)

Front End Design and Art: Paul Gill, Neil Singh

Character Art: Darcy Patko, Jonathan Yao

Environment Art: Anthony Leonati

Special Effects: Aazim Khan

Animation: Chris Auchter, Chris Colibaba, Seng Lau, Jeremy Mathiesen, Aric Norine, Dennis Pena, Cai Wen, Marie Wyatt

Technical Art: Jonathan Snyder

Concept Art: David Enciso, Anthony Iammarino, Nelson Garcia

Game Design: Jamie Ip, Matt McTavish

QA Management: Chris Cleroux, Jahn Myklebust

QA: Chuck Boyle, Jeff Chong, Sam Kirvan, Michael Levesque, Sarah Mah

Game Directors: Jason Carr, Mike Inglehart

Technical Director: Tedd Streibel

Art Director: Eddie Visser

Audio Director: Chad York

Producers: Jared Johnson, Ken Yeeloy

Special Thanks: Audiokinetic, Inc., Jon Adkins (Technical Art), Albert Chau (Audio), Chris Cleroux (Design), Keith Hentschel (Programming), Bryce Holliday (Gameplay Direction), Kalvin Lyle (Art Direction), Reece Mills (Animation), Derek Stenning (Concept Art), Rob Sugama (Front End Art)

Additional Work: David Bokan, Steven Brekelmans, Jung Chan, Mike Vlad Cora, Mike Cline, David Catlin, Noam Chitayat, Ryan Kemp, Andrew Osborne, Jim Randall, Jonathan Soh, Cody Watson, Owen Wiggins, Rob Willock

Next Level Games

CEO: Douglas Tronsgard

President: Eric Randall

Studio General Manager: Edoardo de Martin

PR Coordinator: Pam Saunders

Office Manager: Megumi Asakawa

HR Coordinators: Karen Chan, Elisabeth Kleckner, Melodie Li

IT: Trevor Clark, Simon Roscoe

Receptionist: Jenny Thiessen

Nintendo

Executive Producer: Satoru Iwata

Producer: Kensuke Tanabe

Assistant Producer: Risa Tabata

Supervisors: Genyo Takeda, Shigeru Miyamoto

Coordination: Yuji Ichijo, Akiya Sakamoto

Coordination Assistant: Toshihiko Okamoto

Graphic Supervisors: Yusuke Nakano, Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Title Logo Art: Ryo Koizumi

Storyboard: Naoki Mori

Music of NES Punch-Out!!: Kenji Yamamoto

Technical Support: Hironobu Kakui, Takehiro Oyama

UI Supervisors: Miyako Nishio, Tomoko Ichikawa

Special Thanks: Makoto Wada, Takumi Kawagoe, Atsushi Watanabe, Tomoaki Kuroume, Digital Media Lab, Inc., Super Mario Club

Nintendo of America

Project Development: Todd Buechele

Business Development: Minoru Fukuda, Tom Prata

NOA Localization: Leslie Swan, Nate Bihldorff, Kevin Sullivan, Gema Almoguera, Joanie Grenader, Cesar Perez

NOA Marketing Support: Jeff Miller, Chiko Bird

NOA Product Testing: Masayasu Nakata, Kyle Hudson, Eric Bush, Sean Egan, Arnold A. Myers II, Pat Wells, Teresa Lillygren, Nicko Gonzalez de Santiago, Valeria Soares

Special Thanks: Mindy Bannan, Devon Pritchard

Nintendo of Europe

Additional Coordination: Jan Hennig, Jesús Ángel Rodríguez Gago

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