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Crochet-Out!! with Little Mac and Mike Tyson

Posted Feb 26th 2008 10:31PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Fan stuff

We can't help but love Little Mac, the quintessential underdog. If seeing him on your virtual console isn't enough, though, how about seeing him around your neck in the winter? You may have also noticed that this scarf has Mike Tyson's big mug on it, so you won't have to settle for Mr. Dream.

Realistically, we know you won't buy this -- after all, the scarf is a whopping $175 on Etsy. Still, we admire the craftsmanship that went into Beatboxtaun's crocheting, and we hope you do, too. We only wish we had such skills ourselves, so that we didn't have to drool over these kinds of things on Etsy all the time.

In our opinion, this definitely beats out the Punch-Out mat for the best craft featuring Little Mac (that we know of).

[Via Technabob]

Mat, sweet mat

Posted Oct 27th 2007 1:30PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Fan stuff

Craftster user obesolete rendered this extremely familiar scene from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (or, as it appears on the Virtual Console and in the later console release, Not Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!) in cross-stitch. Bald Bull has just totally smashed the extremely undersized Little Mac, stripping him (we imagine) of the star he'd been saving up for an opportune moment.

Cross-stitch is a good medium for game crafts, because, much like Perler beads, it naturally lends itself to designs formed from small squares. NES pixels, of course, translate perfectly. That doesn't prevent us from feeling a bit subversive sometimes for using traditional crafting methods to render weird, nontraditional stuff like game screens. No doubt obesolete got the same giggle out of doing this.

The Short Cuts entry that better freaking win

Posted Jun 11th 2007 10:30AM by Jason Wishnov
Filed under: Fan stuff, Video

We thought we'd given up posting Nintendo Short Cuts entries as a veritable flood of applicants submitted their works shortly before the deadline, but sister site Joystiq posted one that's simply way, way too good.

The above "movie trailer" for the NES classic Punch-Out!! is rife with 8-bit references, as the creators shrewdly blend recognizable game artwork into live-action scenes. The acting (especially Von Kaiser's) is top-notch, production values sky-high, and the music made us replay the last minute of the trailer nine times just to rock out. If Hollywood really knew what was up, this would have been made instead of the lukewarm Rocky Balboa last year. We officially stamp our vote of approval on Team Awesome, and wish them the best of luck.

They probably won't need it.

Punch-Out!! leaves HDTVs down for the count

Posted Apr 26th 2007 12:25PM by Eric Caoili
Filed under: Virtual Console

Many who've downloaded the Virtual Console's Punch-Out!! release are reporting that the boxing game isn't playing well with their HDTVs. Timing is paramount if you want to dodge punches and have your own jabs connect, but the HDTV response lag that sometimes occurs has a habit of knocking Little Mac's bloodied face onto the canvas, leaving him too dazed to even focus his eyes on the mouthguard dropped inches away.

Gamers with SDTV's haven't been experiencing any lag between their controllers and the onscreen fight, and explanations for the decreased response time lean towards blaming the televisions, so Nintendo doesn't seem to be at fault this time. Have you noticed any HDTV lag with Punch-Out!! or your other Virtual Console purchases?

(We know that Mike Tyson isn't in the VC release of Punch-Out!, but we saw the above comic at The Librarianist, and couldn't stop ourselves from using it!)

VC Monday Madness: Finally, we get Punch Out!!

Posted Apr 16th 2007 11:30AM by David Hinkle
Filed under: VC Monday Madness

Seriously, how long have you been waiting for this Virtual Console release? Since late November, right? Well, we've been waiting for it too, and although it's not the game we all grew up with, it's relatively the same title. The other titles available are a pair of games we all knew would be emerging on the service, so no surprises this week.

The games available for download after 9 a.m. Pacific Time are:

Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream (NES, 1 player, 500 points)
Bonk's Revenge (TurboGrafx16, 1 player, 600 points)
Virtua Fighter 2 (Genesis, 1-2 players, 800 points)

As usual, check back later for our wrap-up post.

Japan's VC announcements for April: Boxers, ninjas, and punkic cyborgs

Posted Mar 30th 2007 8:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Virtual Console

We're jealous of the Japanese Virtual Console selection already. It's even worse now that we've seen the newly-announced games for April. There is some really great stuff coming out next month-- at least it means there's a chance we'll get it at some point. The new games include awesome selections like Final Fight (SNES), Puyo Puyo Tsuu (Genesis), Punch-Out!! (NES), and Star Fox 64 (N64). Really, the whole list is packed with awesomeness.

Of special interest to us: Ninja Gaiden (NES), which we pretty much don't need to say anything about, because who hasn't played Ninja Gaiden, and Air Zonk, the futuristic Bonk spinoff that exemplifies the term "cute-'em-up".

Nintendo refreshes Punch-Out!! patent, provides hope

Posted Jan 30th 2007 2:45PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

On January 11th, Nintendo refreshed their patent on Punch-Out!! through the United States Patent and Trademark Office, all but confirming a future presence for the title on the Wii. The likelihood of an original game hitting the Wii is high as Nintendo originally filed the patent on April 1st, 2005, under the category "electronic game discs," leaving those speculating on a VC release of the game in the dark once again.

So, if Nintendo were to put out a new Punch-Out!! game on the Wii, would you want it to control like Wii Sports: Boxing? Or do you have a better control scheme in mind?

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Crochet-Out!! with Little Mac and Mike Tyson

Mat, sweet mat

The Short Cuts entry that better freaking win

Punch-Out!! leaves HDTVs down for the count

VC Monday Madness: Finally, we get Punch Out!!

Japan's VC announcements for April: Boxers, ninjas, and punkic cyborgs

Nintendo refreshes Punch-Out!! patent, provides hope

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