How Many Punches Are Needed To Beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 

yeah idk mate. probably like a billion

I beat Soda in one punch. It was easy. I waited for him to throw one of those sneaky hooks, took it on the chin, set down my controller, then punched a giant hole in my tv screen. Soda was unable to continue the fight...

Is amazing how a 1989 game managed to imitate Tyson style by making him only beatable after he gets tired in the latest rounds.

great video and explanations! Thanks for peeling back some of the mystery around this game. I'd love to see a video about the 1 in 177 quadrillion odds for the perfect bull 2 fight

You know, the Sandman fight kind of felt like the true final boss for this challenge due to him consuming so many punches while still being really difficult, while Macho was just a pretty difficult fight and Tyson combined everything special in this run for one last fight (dodging for entire rounds, countering signature attacks, and a bit of RNG, with a lot of precision required)

4:00 "You can tell if you've failed, if you don't win."

Here I thought all stars worked like Wii's stars where you counter or meet specific conditions for stars in the same moves they would usually use rather than this star queue system, this explains a lot actually! Excellent video.

i just realized this video only has 600 views, its production quality is like most million subscriber channels today. AMAZING WORK.

"Join the Nintendo fun club today, Mac!" Now there's some great pre-fight advice....

i just love the idea of these big men going into a fight thinking there's no way they can lose and then this little guy just starts dodging every hit they throw and throwing his own hits in such a perfect way that they go down pathetically

How have you only got 8.5k subs!? Your work is incredible- your medievil speedrun matches summoning salts castlevania vids energy - honestly, please keep it up!

I love how challenge videos explain things like a significant amount of viewers are actually going to attempt it

He literally opened up Pandora's Box for this game like every little detail and everything it's crazy you can tell he has a lot of experience

Nice vid and editing, dude! It wasn't that hard to understand by the way you explained it. This deserves more views.

"Don Flamenco Gets Up And Retaliates with a Hook inmideately" *Rookie Mistake we Fucking Murder Him*

My initial guess is 120, but that is because I remember that figure from the description of the 121 punch TAS a while ago. :)

What an amazing video. The info given about Star Punches and Victory Requirements are actually going to help me for my next playthroughs.

I guessed 144 punches early on, so I was sort of close. It's very interesting how deep the intricate mechanics of this game can get.

This is awesome, between the detailed commentary and the thoughtful execution. And I loved the Lufia boss music played during the Super Macho Man fight.

MTPO is one of those games that is VERY nostalgic for me. One hint of the music or the visuals, and I'm back in that period of my life where I'm in private school for the first time, the NES was hooked up to the small downstairs TV in my home (before, everything was in the family living room, and a couple of years later, I'd have localized everything to my own bedroom), and I was getting into pro wrestling. It's a very specific place and time, and only a few games or shows take me back to not only the visuals of that place, but the feeling of it: this, Goonies II, watching Robotech, and WWF Superstars of Wrestling. Hours spent just staring at the TV and figuring this game out. A large part of me misses those days. It's WEIRD to me how few honest-to-God sequels some of the best games have had. Super Punch-Out!! was great, but somehow lacked the feeling this game gave; the Wii game was...meh. I still want a Kid Icarus sequel that FEELS like Kid Icarus, too. Such simple formulas in enormously popular games, and then nothing else.

Amazingly well done video. Been interested in speedruns of this game for a while and it is cool to see challenges as well.

At 13:30 , 1/60th of a second is 16.67ms, not 0.0167ms. I think the mistake you made was dividing a second by 60 and then assigning that as the millisecond value, which isn't correct :P

Great video! Really cool how the TAS helped push the limits here! (Also, thought it would've been 84 punches lol)

I'm amazed that you can use cues from the audience to time your punches

Great explanation of your TAS. It's fun learning what went into making a TAS, or at least explaining the tricks used, especially ones that are TAS only. And this TAS is far too quick to explain in real time

I literally got tied WR on Glass Joe on my first day playing the game. There's literally a buffer that works 50% of the time based on rng.

U deserve more subs bro this is very well made. Don’t stop

29:30 Wow! I see you are a man of culture with the choice of background music. Always nice to hear some Temporal Tower. Thanks for introducing me to that remix.

It’d have to be at least 1 per fight, possibly 2 for cases such as king hippo, sandman, and the don flamenco rematch. There’s probably some other factors to it, so I’ll add 20 to it and say 37. Time to watch and see how close I was. Edit: I didn’t realize that victory by decision was decided by points instead of hp values in the original, so I’m already way off.

Very good video Pap as always. Thanks for making this. I can't submit a guess because a mis-click in my browser brought me to the end so it would be wrong to guess when I already knew.

Outstanding video! Thanks for such awesome effort and explanations!

Man this whole video is framed really well. Never been hyped for punch-out before, I watched through the whole video!

You know this is a good RU-vidr when they put the songs they used in the description

You’re going places if you keep this up. Also I would recommend using Audacity to improve your mic audio.

ngl I lost my shit when you started playing the Sinistral's fight theme for super macho man. You're a man of culture

What a great analysis. Love this stuff.

I have never knew any of these neat weakness and frame-perfect Knockdown before. Playing it in Switch online. TSA or normal play, I love the hidden details from different Players like this.

okay before i watch im gonna guess youd need around 305 punches for all the boys. Edit: great vid man, didnt know there are so many 1hit knockdowns. now i wonder how it looks for the sequels

Aw your Baldbull "Before Moon" SF EX theme use was genius

This is incredibly usefull. I never knew all of this. You're a legend

Imagine having to fight someone who has beaten all of his opponents in 20 punches or less, and for some of those fights he even messed around and did nothing until the last round before he threw his own punches. Oh, and he beats people literally double to triple his own size too.

I was a little off, but my first guess was pretty close. I figured it would take roughly 10 punches on average per character taking in account some of the beefier outliers. That number was high by about 20 punches, but not a terrible ballpark for someone with only passing familiarity with Punch Out speedruns

yeah idk mate. probably like a billion Great video bro. I got all comfy for this one and I don't regret it.

Glad to see many people interested in this challenge, as I watched the improvement from 121 punches to 120 occur in a comment section.

Fun fact: if you try to win by decision on Don Flamenco's fight, even if no punches landed on you, you can still lose

This was a really good idea. i noted during alot of the fights mac's hp mattered. Is there a counter for mac getting knocked down that affects the game in a positive way?

Very interesting analysis! I never would've figured any of this out!

the music going along with von kaisers head movements is great

You're overthinking macho, you have loads of time where he's idle. You only need one random star because of the knockdown issue not changing the punch count. You dont need to get fancy with long/short delays good/bad pattern if you dont get time sensitive optimal luck there's still tons of windows where he just wont do anything winding up for the mini spin. It's of course possible you dont get the at most 4 minispins necessary to win in r1 but similar to hippo the odds are very low. So, effectively 3/8

0:00 Intro 3:15 Glass Joe 5:38 Von Kaiser 10:55 Piston Honda 12:21 Don Flamenco 14:15 King Hippo 16:00 Great Tiger 17:06 Bald Bull 23:28 Piston Honda Rematch 24:12 Soda Popinski 27:18 Bald Bull Rematch 29:28 Don Flamenco Rematch 33:30 Mr. Sandman 36:55 Super Macho Man 41:54 Mike Tyson 44:59 Outro It was 120 punches

Great video and good job on the explanations. I don’t have any ideas for a video, but I’ll try to think of something.

That is one thorough breakdown. Mes hommages...

Probably a more complicated question, but what's the minimum number of inputs needed to beat Punch Out?

Well, I haven't played this game since the 90's (poorly!) and I've never done speed running, but hearing how easy tying the record for the first match is really makes me want to try and get my name on a record.

If you have super punch out experience and punch out Wii you could make this a series really enjoyed the video keep it up 👍

I have never played this game but I'm friggin glued to the screen rn

Something I've always wondered is how do you get Super Macho Man to not dodge your star punches after he takes two of them? When I tried searching it up I could never find the answer on it, is it just the guard manipulation that prevents him from doing so?

Wait. the T in “TKO” stands for “technical”? I always thought it stood for “three” since a TKO happens after you knock them out three times.

I've watched this like 10 times. I can't get enough!

I am the age to have played and enjoyed this game when in came out on the NES. But I was never good at it. These videos are SO SO interesting!

I was incredibly proud of my 42 seconds! I got pretty close (in my book) for the von kaiser which is like a mile away to speed runners. Props to speedrunners I don't have patience for it but if I did it would be for Punch out!

Question: How Many Punches to Beat Punch Out? Answer: More than 6 probably

Excellent vid, subbed!

Fantastic breakdown. Thanks.

A Punch-Out challenge video that partially utilises Bleach music, RU-vid knows me too well. Really neat video!

I think it could be 6. 3 to get stars (if you can get that many), and 3 to use the uppercuts (if they those count as punches). That might be enough to win be decision. Edit: I thought you meant only mike Tyson. I didn’t read the title correctly, I guess. I was still probably way off

This guy puts so much damn effort in his videos, with only 4K subs?

Assuming that each time that game checks whether Bald Bull should charge is independent, then you could use a negative binomial distribution to calculate the probability of getting fast enough bull changes. A negative binomial distribution can be used to determine the probability of having a certain number of failures (in this case, checks where he doesn't charge) to get a set number of successes (in this case, the 2 charges that you need). So using the time limit, calculate the max number of failures that you can deal with, then use the negative binomial distribution to find the probability of getting that number of less. However, this also relies on knowing the probability that he charges on a single check, which you said is also unknown, so it's a moot point unless that can be determined. The chance of getting rolling jabs vs a hook later on also complicates the calculation a bit, but assuming that's independent of the bull charge times, then it can be accounted for without too much trouble.

actually, tyson can be beaten in 3 punches, since getting the 3rd knockdown with mac at full hp is an instant ko, and you can get 3 1 hit kds

So, this begs the question: what's the MOST amount of punches you can do in Mike Tyson's Punch Out?

Was gonna click off, but as I kept watching I just got so interested in the way everything was presented that I changed my mind completely. Great video!

Love these type of videos

I had no idea the crowd helped with cues, cool detail!

Loved this game but what I love more is hearing bleach DBZ and a few other of my favorite shows music in the background lol

Great stuff, keep it up😁

Excellent video im totally subscribing to the channel

I left a comment in the section as asked. Fine work!

What an interesting video. Hope this gets popular

Why tf is this video not popping off great job on the editing and production.

"How many licks does it take to reach to the center of a lollipop" move aside it's now "How many punches does it take to take out Mike Tyson" turn for the spotlight.

The crowd watchs your videos so they help in challenges

you know it's going to be good when it answers a question that should be answerable in a few seconds, in 45 minutes

babe wake up wild usage of the medievil soundtrack

I have some ideas to improve Bald Bull 1 and Mr. Sandman with better odds. I'm quite confident that no more punches can be taken away. Great job and very entertaining video.

Subscribed sir. Well done. Plus summoning salt is here. So I’m here. Im a simple man.

Mad respect for doing this

a crumb of algorithm for you good sir

My little brother beat Tyson today. It was 8 in the morning and he just started yelling in Happiness.

Here’s this man explaining how to beat this game in the fewest punches possible, meanwhile I’m learning there’s apparently a fast and slow dodge??????? Genuinely didn’t know that

Now I wonder what the most punches you can possibly land in one playthrough is.

Nice work 👍

Instructions unclear. Lost to Glass Joe.

Most well crafted video

It's amazing this shows you right here that the Nintendo is truly a computer

Nice vid!

45min to answer a question from a game i never played. Must watch.

Love using the Sinistral Battle theme for Super Macho Man. Love Lufia 2!

love all the Medievil sound tracks lol

i’m liking this new algorithm sending me videos from creators with 1k subs

damn. is little Mac Mike Tyson? Taking bald bull down in 1 punch? I didn't even know he could be KOed. this is an awesome vid