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Retro Game of the Day! Boxing
Boxing by Bob Whitehead, published by Activision for the Atari 2600 in 1980.
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I love those old Activision boxes. While the typical Atari-produced games had much more detailed painted artwork, the ATVI boxes usually reflected a style emphasizing the simplicity of the onscreen presentation, in a tasteful way - with
giant rainbows often trailing the moving characters. That part was rather tacky, but it was certainly iconic and distinctive.
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Here we had one of earliest known expressions of video boxing. Sensibly, they decided to portray a top-down view and only showed each boxer's head and gloves - to make up for the minimalism, some relatively fluid animations were added to give character to the players.
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The game is extremely simple - jab and dodge, jab and dodge. 100 points nets you a win, or whoever is the point leader when the single-round 2:00 clock wears down. Even with such a crude setup, the game was quite fun in its day and remains one of the more accessible games from the period (particularly owing to its multiplayer aspect).
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