BOXING VIDEO GAMES EVOLUTION [1978 - 2023] 

Watching these videos makes you realize how impressive Arcades were. They're like 5 years ahead of home console games graphics and gameplay wise in the early 80's. No wonder they were such popular places.

Fight night round 3 is a game changer.

I've always been a huge fan of boxing games, so it took me by surprise how many boxing games were made pre 2000.

I remember many kids crowding around Punchout at the Six Flags arcade in St. Louis in 1985. Graphics were fantastic for that era!

I literally screamed when I saw Final Blow. My best friend had it on Sega and we used to play it everytime with Shinobi. Man awesome memories

fight night round 3 is way ahead of its timee

I loved Mocap Boxing with them gloves

The entire Punch Out series is the best boxing game series of all time.

Ring kings on the NES was by far my favorite boxing game back in the day!!!

4d boxing was an epic!

Greatest heavyweights on SEGA was amazing. Had a blast playing that as a child

That Knockout Kings 2003 KO Was Disrespectful 😂😅

4:26 that is bear hugger from super punch out... had no idea about Frank Bruno's boxing game , but looks like they reused that character on SNES

Fight Night Round 3 was my favourite out of the lot, the total punch control with the right analogue stick was really fun and satisfying to box with. I see the newer version just have you flicking the analogue to perform a punch as opposed to FNR 2/3 where you had to input a certain input which imitates the punch you want to throw, very intuitive stuff. Plus, pulling off a haymaker by pulling back on the analogue before you follow through was amazing when it connected, especially from when you spring up from a crouching position after bobbing and weaving.

Lol Fight Night : Round 4 2009 on PS3 is more beautiful than "Undisputed" on PS5, wtf ?!

Mike Tyson Punch Out on NES, Evander Holyfield Boxing on Sega Genesis, Knockout Kings on PlayStation are my favorites

Played soooo much to fight night 2004. Loved that game !

Ready 2 rumble on the 64 was so much fun with friends

"Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee!"

14:25 Boxing Legends Of The Ring was my JAM!!! Loved that game on my Genesis back in the day

what a brawl

26:23 when Doc clocks Lil' Mac...I lost it. Never got to play that game.

Oh gosh, when you look at the other games of their time Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out are MILES ahead in every conceivable way. My first boxing game was Fight Night for the Atari back in '85. Love seeing the games I grew up with. Stand outs being George Foreman KO and Final Kock-Out Boxing. Would love to see EA bring back Fight Night. They could license star boxers and also reach out to the RU-vidrs and Influencers who've been selling PPV's as well. Might bring some eyes to it.

What's awesome is that boxing until nowadays isn't forgot even with the arise of MMA, boxing will be always a great noble art!!

Being a 10 year old kid in the arcade seeing and playing heavyweight champ for the first time blew my mind. It can't really be done justice due to the specialized controls including the two handles you had to grab onto to throw a right and a left hand respectively. The first 4 punch outs were amazing (2 arcade, 1 nes, 1 superNes) and the first fight night was amazing because you really had to think your way through it, total punch control was really a game changer!!!

Ring King was a Masterpeice. Also loved Fight Night Round 2.

DOWN GO BIG DADDY DOWN GO BIG DADDY😵

Great video. Fight night round 1 was missing though

Thank you for this and this channel!

RIP Mills Lane (1937-2022) Boxing referee 🥊 Best known for MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch and Judge Mills Lane 😢😔🙏

Foreman had hella games lol

Boxing games are really tough 🥊

Trip down memory lane. I remember punch out on NES, knockout kings on PS1, Holyfield on Genesis. Sad we haven't gotten a good proper boxing game since Fight Night Champion in 2011. Absolutely insane.

1978 version is what I'd envision a Aliens Boxing Video Game would look like 🤣

Let's get Ready to Rumble!- Michael Buffer 🥊💪

Punch out, Knockout kings and Fight Night 4ever

Holy crap, Evander Holyfield's Real Deal Boxing is just a ripoff of ABC's Wide World of Sports at 7:19. You can even hear the same sounds from the Genesis game.

At 8:40 looked like ray mercer vs tommy gunn fucked him up

Boxing games I played to death - 5:40-Mike Tyson Punch Out, 14:35-Greatest Heavyweights, 18:26-Ready 2 Rumble Round 2, 20:32-Knockout Kings 2001, 22:59- Fight Night 2004, and 25:56-Fight Night Round 4. Only one missing is PSP version of Fight Night 3, which played as much as Greatest Heavyweights.

It's amazing how much better the intellivision Boxing looks than the later Atari 2600 Boxing. Also amazing what a huge leap Punch Out!! was.

とても貴重な映像ですね。ありがとうございます。

8:38 Uhhh.. I think that’s an actual murder. Ref should be banned from boxing FOREVER 😂😂

I love that you do this you and VGL do your things when it comes to games of the consoles and genres thank you from 1980 so I enjoy seeing it all in gaming all Over again on these videos you’re the best

I just can't wait for esports boxing club

4D Sports Boxing was revolutionary in 1990. A 3 dimensional game that used motion capture and allowed you to chose from about a dozen camera angles, including first person. You needed a really good PC for the time to play it smoothly.

Those early Punch Out graphics are ahead of their time.

Final blow 1988 ahead of its time with amazing graphics

1:49 Rocky Super Action on Coleco Vision. One of my favs! You had to make sure you played it with the Super Action controller though.

Arcade punch-out 1983 was my favorite boxing game.

Well nice compilation...but did we not forgot a boxing game right (?), that was a good seller and also have a VERY expensive Master System version. - James Buster Douglas Boxing (1990) - Sega Genesis

Had so much fun playing Final Blow in a restaurant arcade in the early 90's.

The fact they didn’t release A boxing game on the PS4s whole life span pisses me off to no end. Now I was a ps5 and nope still nothing. I don’t count these crap vr gimmick games, or phone games.

Let's see ... Yep, everyone gathered around Punch-Out in the arcades pre-Street Fighter days. "And in the red corner ... Baaaaaald Buuuuulllll." I remember playing the old Fight Night on the Apple II (or was it Apple IIgs?), and it was always a pain to deal with the special punches, like Hu Him's kick or the British Bulldog's 360 punch. The sounds were better on the Apple, but the play was very slow. I did like Boxing on the Gameboy, but the boxers tended to do a little Tokyo Drift out of nowhere. Final Blow in the arcades I could never get the hang of it. However, my favorite was the arcade version of Ring King. Spent over an hour in the arcade with one quarter, eventually realizing you had to defeat each boxer in the second circuit TEN times before meeting the World Champ. I liked the swaying and ducking. I also liked the special knockouts -- the straight punch into the ropes, the hook made the opponent do the helicopter spin, and the uppercut near the upper corners knocked them out of the ring. Good times.

8:06 WTF was that All in Boxing???

the jump from 82 to 83 was crazy. Think if games never progressed

Wow its been a long time since a legit boxing game has come out.

I propose you today a video that traces the evolution of boxing games. Have you played all these games? Which one is your favorite? If you know of any other games not on this list, please mention them in the comments.

Aaah man wow love it, some great classics

And still FN champion looks the best The ps1 version on Naseem boxing was missed here and that was a belter

After every evolution of graphics and technology we always hear that this is it. It can't get any better than this. In 1980 I was a little too young but I wonder what teens were saying back then with these @00:42 advanced ultra graphics...

2:01 Sting like a bee, float like a tree.

punch out arcade 1983 was really the first playable boxing game. all the others around that time were just pixels hitting each other.

1978 reminds me of the black kids fighting back in the day trying to look cool

"Let's Get It On"- Referee Mills Lane 🥊

Great video

I have to say Wade Dixons counterpunch is one of my faves… 🥊

There are two boxing games you left out. "Punch Hero" (Was in mobile phone) and "Untitled Boxing Game" Roblox

Was waiting for this video to be done....thank you! 1. I never knew there was a Frank Bruno game, let alone multiple. LOL Also, never knew about Prince Naseem boxing game. 2. Favorite games are Mike Tyson's Punch Out (NES), Legends of the Ring (SNES) you had this titled incorrectly on your video as Final Knock-Out Boxing (maybe this is an international title of the game), Super Punch-Out (SNES), Knockout Kings 2002 (Xbox, also the one on N64), Fight Night Franchise (XBOX 360, Round 3 and Champion). Ring King on NES was always entertaining but pretty difficult. 3. Love that you included a 3DO game (Foes of Ali)....I have this game and it was impossible to knock anyone down. I would wail on the opponent repeatedly and they would just sit there taking it with zero health left but not go down. 4. It is crazy that we haven't got a really good console boxing game in over a decade. I'm assuming this has to do with the growing popularity of MMA vs boxing.

Punch out CHANGED THE GAME! I remember seeing it in the arcade and it blew my mind. What a great boxing game... it doesn't even look like it belongs in the 80's with the other boxing games lol. Ring king was so freaking fun! I used to knock my cousins out of the ring and he'd be pissed lol

We so need an updated version of Wii Sports Boxing.

16:41 Holy shit, I remember not only playing this, but also the huge Walkabout map. I thought I was the only one that remembered Lenny Loosejocks existed.

You missed Boxing Mania Ashita no Joe (2001). Then again, I don't know if there's any direct footage left of it, either. Never did manage to beat that game.

Man I actually played the Atari 2600 version! Spent hours at a 7/11 playing Punch Out. Went to the mall & played the Coleco Rocky game that was set up in a Best department store. One you get to Ring King, that’s my real era though. I can’t believe all the options we had back then & now, when technology is so much better, there aren’t any boxing games.

Ring king was a fun arcade game

Golden Gloves 1:07 Rocky Drago knockout

Wow super punch out came out way earlier

Ring king was my favorite boxing arcade so many quarters

0:45 similar to this but my game was called karate lol

あの時代にパンチアウトだけ出来が異次元だな……

Amazing

Low blow for MS Dos reminded me of apollo creed in rocky 4 homeboy was getting thrashed

This is going to make me sound insane but i've been trying to remember which boxing game I watched my older brother and cousin play as a 5 year old , I have hda the music in that game burned into my brain and at age 34 hadn't known which game I am thinking of until watching this video and learning it was 100% Foreman For Real 15:06 and i'm also stunend at how well I remember a tune I haven't heard in 29 years! Thanks for the thorough video!

2nd game "Boxing" 1978 looks like they are slap fighting lol.

I used to play RealSports Boxing on Atari, Legends of the Ring on SNES and Fight Night Round 2 and 3 on PS2. Fun times.

I never knew Frank Bruno came out with punch out before Mike Tyson wow

for people that like realism, Fight Night Round 3 for PS2 holds up better than most of the games that followed it....even the series' ones i still play it on PCSX2, it's amazing

Low Blow was an amazing game, way ahead of its time.

I love how Final Blow on Amiga was such a good port that it was mentioned again after the arcade version had already been mentioned. Heavy Boxing was released on the MSX , Champion Boxing was an arcade original that got releases on SG-1000 and MSX and they weren't mentioned more than once :D Ring King was also an arcade original, and it had a better port on the MSX.

You missed out Devastating Blow ; Release Date: 1991 ; Publisher: Beyond Belief this game was awesome.

Heavyweight champ released on October 1976 (original) and the remake on September 1987.

1987 Rocky looks pretty sick!! 5:25

No James Buster Douglas Boxing for Genesis! Damn!

I had an Atari in 94 and It had many games in it including karate game, the funny part in my game that every time you win a round you get a new belt I mean colors lol ! And I had hide and seek game and Superman game and frogs fiesta game lol and I had the original pitfall game lol ! Plus more than 500 games or something

Time for a good boxing game again

my game @11:14 ...tears in my eyes. Thanks!

А почему на консолях последних поколений пропал симулятор fight night round?

Greatest heavyweights ❤❤❤

Look at how far ahead of its time Fight Night was. Literally looked two gens ahead of games around the same time

The only ones I remember playing was Fight Night 2004 & Rocky 2002. Always found it amusing how in Fight Night 04, the opponent would have jelly legs whenever they get knocked down to the ground.

Title Fight blew me away when I saw it in arcades! It seemed to take everything Punch-Out!! started to the next level, even to the point of offering head to head gameplay!