TDMMC: VGB - Round 1 (Mike Tyson's Punch Out vs. Maniac Mansion)

[jtex316]

Capcom Bracket

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (1987, Nintendo)
Nintendo



Little Max is a up and coming boxing prospect, working his way up to the top of the professional ranks of pugilists.  You control Max, and help him reach the top, and become the champion!!  This sequel to the original arcade version, “Punch Out”, met Nintendo owners and fans alike with open arms.  This was also the first ever console video game to be endorsed by a professional athlete, and to bear his name in the title.  It’s easy play and colorful characters made Mike Tyson’s Punch Out an instant classic.

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Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (1993, PC)
LucasArts



Before focusing almost solely on Star Wars games, Lucasarts made a slew of great point-and-click adventures in the late 80s and early 90s. Games like “Sam & Max Hit the Road”, “Grim Fandango” and the “Monkey Island” series are all great, but arguably the best of this genre was the second game in the “Maniac Mansion” series, “Day of the Tentacle”. Extremely clever and well thought-out, the game played with time travel, allowing the actions of characters in the past to change history, affecting your players in the future. This great concept, mixed in with the backdrop of our colonial time and the founding fathers juxtaposed with a future where alien tentacles ruled the Earth, made Maniac Mansion a wonderful game from top to bottom.

[Dave Gray]

To those of you that haven't played any of the LucasArts adventure titles, you should pick one of them up.  I'm looking for "Grim Fandango" on torrents now.  I hear it's great.  Day of the Tentacle was one of the most clever adventure games I'd ever played.

However, I chose Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!  I spent too much time playing it to let it go down in the first round.  I also played Super Punch Out on SNES and recently played Wade Hixton's Counter Punch on GBA (a similar title).  I probably can still beat Tyson.

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[GUATARICCAN]

God you remember the password too! You're an animal.

[TonyB0D]

PUNCH OUT!!!!

i got up to mr macho man yesterday....fucking awesome game

[BeefStewert]

I really liked the original Maniac Mansion.  Is Day of the Tentacle even better?  It always seemed a little more like a goofy cartoon than a puzzle to me.  But I really didn't give it much of a chance.

[Dave Gray]

Oh yeah...Day of the Tentacle was way better.  It was kind of a goofy cartoon.

[SPOILER]

One puzzle I remember about the game:

There were three characters -
1) A metalhead fat guy in colonial times.
2) A revenge of the nerds-style geek in the present.
3) An airhead, ditzy blone in the future, which has been taken over by tentacle aliens.

There is a point in the game where the girl in the future can't get past a patroling alien, because she looks human, obviously.  She keeps getting caught and placed in a doctor's waiting room (for aliens).  She then steals the alien anatomy chart off the wall.  She sends it back in time to the fat guy.  He takes the chart and swaps them with Betsy Ross' flag plans, which changes the future.  In the present, the nerd climbs the flagpole and gets the tentacle-looking flag, which he sends to the future to the girl, so that she can wear it as a disguise.
[SPOILER]

[BeefStewert]

I liked putting the hamster in the microwave in the original.

I also liked that the adventure changed depending on the friends you chose.  There were several ways to win the game, which was a new thing to me.

[crazy_scar_man]

Mike Tyson's Punch Out was the freakin bomb.

[DolFan619]

     Mike Tyson's PUNCH OUT by far!  They had such great characters on that game.  Super Macho Man, Don Flamenco, Soda Popinski, King Hippo.  That game was so much fun!

[YoFuggedaboutit]

     Mike Tyson's PUNCH OUT by far!  They had such great characters on that game.  Super Macho Man, Don Flamenco, Soda Popinski, King Hippo.  That game was so much fun!

Couldn't have said it better myself.  My two most formidable opponents were the second Bald Bull (because you had to uppercut him to knock him down), and Super Macho Man (you didn't know how many spin punches he was gonna throw after you knocked him down).