Mike Tyson, Snoop Dogg, Shane Mosley & Warren G on Fight Night Round 4
We were at The House Of Blues in Los Angeles earlier this week for the red carpet debut of EA’s Fight Night Round 4 for the Xbox 360, which is looking like the most realistic boxing experience one can possibly have without ending up in the hospital! While we were there we spoke with the people’s champ, Mike Tyson, current fan favorite “Sugar” Shane Mosley, 90s rap icon Warren G and Mr. Snoop Dee-Oh-Double-Gee himself. Check out our tour of the red carpet right here:
As an aside, my own personal favorite part of Fight Night 4 is the graphic depiction of fighers getting their ass knocked out in slow motion. Because that’s what boxing’s all about amirite? Check out some of these screenshots from EA that show just how awesome this year’s graphic engine is:
I’d also like to direct your attention to this gentleman that I have circled in this pic, os that you might enjoy how insanely stoked he is to watch Mike Tyson play a boxing video game in person:
The bastard child of Punch-Out! is dragged kicking and screaming from the void…
I had to do a bit of research to find out if this was even real or not, but so far as I can tell, it is. A long-lost sequel to “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!” Called “Mike Tyson’s Intergalactic Power Punch” has been unearthed, after being released 17 years ago as “Power Punch 2” and forgotten by time.
In this awesomely bad sequel to the beloved NES title, you play as Mike Tyson in a series of fights against the galaxy’s greatest boxers, many of whom appear to be cyborgs or werewolves or something (which seems kind of unfair, since most of them don’t even have ears to bite). Developed by Beam Software, the game became a buggy mess that was not helped by Mike Tyson’s rape conviction right around the time the game was expected to release. Subsequently, all references to Tyson, Don King and Tyson’s then-wife Robin Givens were removed and the game was shoveled under the rug with barely a notice.
Today, the original version has been restored and made available for download in all its shameful glory by a well-known collector of rare video games, Jason “DreamTR” Wilson. Download a free copy HERE but be advised that you will need an NES emulator in order to play it. Or better yet, you can go HERE to buy an actual NES cartridge copy of the game, provided by the classic video game archivists at Retro Zone.
