RealSports Boxing [Model CX26135]

RealSports Boxing © 1987 Atari Corporation.

At the bell the match begins. Move your boxer out of his corner and around the ring by moving your joystick handle forward, back, left, and right. Player 1 controls the boxer in the left corner; the computer or player 2 controls the boxer in the right corner. Move your joystick handle and press the button to make your boxer jab, cover, land body blows, and throw payoff punches.

Cover up to defend yourself. Blocking an opponent's punches scores points and minimizes your strength loss. When covering up, you're still in danger of a technical knock out if your opponent lands 12 successive punches before you can retaliate.

Jabs are quick punches thrown with the leading arm that score points and weaken your opponent. Jabs can be thrown in a rapid flurry. A jab scores least of all the punches and weakens your opponent least, but a flurry accumulates points and damage done to the opponent faster than any other punch. Jabs use little of your own strength and you can throw three times as many jabs as payoff punches in the same amount of time.

Body blows are punches strategically placed to weaken your opponent. Though not as powerful as payoff punches, body blows can be flurried faster than payoffs. Landed body blows score higher than jabs and cost less strength than payoffs.

Payoff punches are thrown with the non-leading arm in an attempt to knock out the opponent. Payoff punches take a lot of strength, so you can't throw successive payoffs as fast as you can throw jabs. When landed, payoff punches score high.

Boxers tire as they move around the ring and throw and take punches. The amount of yellow showing in a fighter's strength bar indicates the strength lead he has over the other boxer. Weakened boxers move slower, their punches are separated by longer delays, and their reaction to joystick commands are sluggish.

Rounds are timed, and the time counts down in the lower center of the screen. When the time runs out the round is over. Boxers take their corners to rest and regain some strength. Between rounds the score boxes display total points earned in the round just fought.