In the early 1980s, after Muhammad Ali retired, boxing was losing its mojo. It took two larger-than-life brawlers to bring star power back to the ring: Mike Tyson and Little Mac. They were the stars of the 1987 Nintendo game “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!” If you had a Nintendo Entertainment System back then, odds are that at some point you laced up Mac’s gloves, stepped into the ring and pounded your way through a roster of palookas like Glass Joe and Bald Bull. The final match, if you made it that far, was against the fearsome Tyson.
