C64 Game Memories - Revisited 30+ Years later : Barry McGuigans World Championship Boxing

in #retro6 years ago

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This was quite possibly against all the odds, the most addictive and replayable game I played on the C64. Barry McGuigan was a big name and very popular at the time, so an obvious choice for a boxing sponsored title in the UK.

The graphics are decent if not amazing, and the sound effects are pretty good for what they are. I'm not sure how modern audiences would react to a boxing game in which the computer controls 80% of the movement of your boxer and you can't dance around the ring but believe me for the limited capabilities of 8 bit computers it works.

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You start of the lowest ranked boxer and have to make your way to the title by beating opponents you select yourself, the lower ranked the better chance you have whilst you are not ranked high yourself.

Before each bout you could do training which consisted of dividing out a share of points into certain categories like weights, light bag, roadwork etc. This allows you to bump up the stats of your boxer.

The bout itself, there is hardly any movement around the ring and the computer controls movement about an inch left or right. What you control is your defensive and attacking punches and blocks. This sounds boring but is much more tactical than most of the 'spam the button' boxing games released at the time, and you have to preserve energy or your endurance can fall quickly if you just release punch after punch.

You can see your endurance fall with each punch landed by your opponent on you / you on your opponent. It was great being ahead in a match but low on endurance for a round so you had to tactically fight defensively.

I'm not sure if a game like this would work today, but for a kid into simulators and management tactical games I loved it.

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