Customer Reviews

Ring King

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"Ring King", a game I had growing up, is a rather by the numbers boxing game. Actually, as even for a NES game, it's BAD. The game play is repetitve, all the fighters are the exact same sprite with palette swaps (really, they had to be THAT lazy?), and the game is overly difficult. Not that you'll play it long enough to get very far, though.

The game play consists if you circling your opponent and mashing A and hoping for the best. The A button is punch and the B button is block, but due to the simple animation you can never tell when your opponent will hit you, effectively rendering blocking to be useless.

The sound and music is horrible, especially the "speech" of the ref, which more accurately sounds like dog barking, when he counts, etc.

During the in-between round segments, there are some highly suggestive animations regarding the fighter and his corner men. When I was younger and played this game I always pressed A and B a lot during the rounds as the animation went faster, and I thought that was restoring the fighter. I remember when I was little thinking that the animation was weird and wondered what the hell they were doing; now that I am an adult, I find it rather disturbing and quite funny that the game designers slipped that in and actually got it past Nintendo. I would love to know the thought process on what made the game designers put that in the game. Look up an online video and you'll see what I mean.

Overall, a horrible game. Other than the comedy value of the extracurricular activity between rounds (8-bit sexual allusion at its best), there is nothing remarkable or even memorable about this title. It's even worst than the "Power Punch II", the space themed sequel to "Mike Tyson's Punch Out". Move along, nothing to see in this train wreck of a piece of crap game.

The video game website IGN rated this title as the 78th greatest game on their top 100 NES games of all time.

(For those looking for great unknown NES/Famicom games, you simply MUST play "Moon Crystal", a criminally unknown Famicom exclusive. The graphics are astounding with cutscenes that even outdo "Ninja Gaiden", amazing music, in depth gameplay, and a fantastic storyline. Absolutely amazing! Had this been released in the

This game i use to play when i was a kid and now my kids have a chance to
play it....it's a funny game to play.. old school style. Thanks