Mike Tyson Jet Blue Punch Out

[Justin_Rice]

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

 

[Azrael]

_uck around and _ind out

"I'd like to buy an 'F,' Pat."

 

[The Big Ragu]

 

[sgreenwell]

They were definitely different. The coin-op Punch Out didn't have an underdog story to it. It was a simple boxing game. My favorite games in the coin-op period of my life...at least from a sports standpoint was Quarterback and that championship baseball game with the buttons and the lever used for batting. My best friend and I spend many a Saturdays at the bowling alley battling on that game.



As for the NES. Little League World Series Baseball was my jam. It was the first NES baseball game where you could actually have a pitching duel.

Not to quibble, but Bases Loaded (1988) was the first to have that kind of batter-pitcher confrontation style that would later become dominant. Of course, I could be overlooking a game myself. I sunk a lot of hours into that game solely because the pitching interface was so much better than Bad News Baseball and RBI, though.

IIRC, the NES couldn't handle a straight port of the arcade version of Punch-Out, even though it was a couple years old by that point. Part of Nintendo's deal with their systems has always been that they favor cheaper, slightly out of date hardware, vs. cutting edge in most cases, especially with the NES and Game Boy. Hence why NES Punch-Out is pretty different, even though it still had to ship with a special chip inside to work. (Some other "weird" arcade to NES conversions - Double Dragon, Renegade, Bionic Commando, etc.)

 

[Justin_Rice]

I preferred Baseball Stars for my original Nintendo baseball fix - team building, player improvement, etc.

But man that cartridge had terrible save issues, and you'd play some amount of games and go to load in again and your save data would be wiped. Ugh.

 

[spikechiquet]

Wait ... the biggest issue is:
Why is Mike Tyson flying JetBlue?

 

[Neutral Corner]

Because he's pissed away most of his money?

He still appeared to be flying in First Class, to the degree that they have one.

 

[Splendid Splinter]

Yes, at one point his net worth was $300M and all that went down the drain; however, it's now $3M.

I am sure with the cannabis business he has, which is quite popular, his net worth will only go up.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Not to quibble, but Bases Loaded (1988) was the first to have that kind of batter-pitcher confrontation style that would later become dominant. Of course, I could be overlooking a game myself. I sunk a lot of hours into that game solely because the pitching interface was so much better than Bad News Baseball and RBI, though.

IIRC, the NES couldn't handle a straight port of the arcade version of Punch-Out, even though it was a couple years old by that point. Part of Nintendo's deal with their systems has always been that they favor cheaper, slightly out of date hardware, vs. cutting edge in most cases, especially with the NES and Game Boy. Hence why NES Punch-Out is pretty different, even though it still had to ship with a special chip inside to work. (Some other "weird" arcade to NES conversions - Double Dragon, Renegade, Bionic Commando, etc.)

I loved Bases Loaded. My issue was that half the teams were the 27 Yankees. Sluggers all up and down the lineup. I loved the pitching interface. You had side arm guys, different deliveries, etc. But you face a team like Jersey, Utah, Miami and a few others and it was a 14-10 slugfest. There were a couple of teams, like Kansas, that were pitching based. I liked LLWS because most of the lineups had maybe 2-3 guys max that were going to carry the offense, so the scores were much lower and playing good infield defense was crucial to winning.

 

[Batman]

I loved Bases Loaded. My issue was that half the teams were the 27 Yankees. Sluggers all up and down the lineup. I loved the pitching interface. You had side arm guys, different deliveries, etc. But you face a team like Jersey, Utah, Miami and a few others and it was a 14-10 slugfest. There were a couple of teams, like Kansas, that were pitching based. I liked LLWS because most of the lineups had maybe 2-3 guys max that were going to carry the offense, so the scores were much lower and playing good infield defense was crucial to winning.

My NES baseball favorite was Baseball Simulator 1.000. It was a weird mashup of other normal NES baseball games, Bases Loaded, and maybe even some Baseball Stars, with a dose of whatever the baseball version of NFL Blitz would have been.
You could play a regular game, or have teams with customizable "superpowers" for pitchers and batters. Pitchers could throw a "photon ball," for example, that came in at about 130 mph, or use a "stopper ball" that you could pause on the way to the plate, among others. Hitters had a ball that could explode when it hit the ground, or a "missile hit" that pushed the fielder all the way back to the fence and temporarily incapacitated them. There were others, but those were some of the best.
You could also customize each players' attributes. Each team had a certain budget of points, so you couldn't just create a lineup full of monsters.
There was also a season mode that kept stats, although it took 5-10 minutes to sim a game.
It was a lot of fun.

 

[maumann]

Saw this coming from a mile away: The challenger is allegedly Florida Man.

Florida man punched by Mike Tyson on JetBlue plane is identified as a 36-year-old criminal | Daily Mail Online

 

[WriteThinking]

Because he's pissed away most of his money?

He still appeared to be flying in First Class, to the degree that they have one.

For all the "cheap" digs at JetBlue, I have to say, I enjoyed, perhaps, the most comfortable flight I've ever had, in coach, on one of its planes a few years ago. It was the only time I've ever flown JetBlue, but I was pleasantly surprised at the experience.