The Return of Punchout!

The Nintendo Wii will be releasing a new version of Punchout this year. The original was a classic Nintendo version. If its anything like the original, this may be the game of the year. Check out this article on all the Top 11 Most Anticipated Games of 2009. An excerpt about Punchout is below.

Punch-Out!! (Wii)
This revival of Nintendo's classic puzzle-sports-rhythmic-punching game has been a very long time coming. The original is probably my favorite 8-bit game ever, and no boxing game has ever been as much fun. Probably because Punch-Out!! never had anything to do with boxing. It was about perfecting your twitch reactions while trying not to fall over laughing at the ridiculous ethnic stereotype cartoons that served as your opponents.

Punch-Out!! for Wii will continue that storied tradition: Watch the croissants fly from Glass Joe as he's knocked to the canvas. Will the addictive gameplay be as perfectly replicated? I hope and pray that it will. The game might go off the rails if it makes too much use of Wii waggle controls and feels too much like a Wii Fit exercise minigame. But the return of Punch-Out!! is reason enough to get excited. — Chris Kohler