It's the year 2006. You're Mark "Tough Guy" Tyler and you've just defended your Heavyweight title for the 9th consecutive time. After demolishing the best boxers on the planet, it's now time to face off with the best in the universe. The Intergalactic Boxing Federation (IGBF) has invited you to go head-to-head with 12 of their greatest fighters. From metallic cyborgs, to heavy hitting mutants, you'll trade punches with opponents whose strength, stamina and speed are like nothing you've ever seen. If pure technique doesn't stop these sluggers (and with the best of them it won't), get hold of those Power Punches. They'll guarantee to send your tin-coated opponent to the junkyard and you to a new title; undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the Universe!
A rather terrible Punch Out like game with the enemy having an advantage over the player by a massive degree.
Imagine if Punch Out was worse in every way and enemies take ten million hits to KO unless you perfectly play an annoying minigame at the start of each run. Conceptually very good but it is bogged down by bloated HP numbers and poorly designed boss patterns. Sprites are kinda decent though.
I only got this to see how bad it was for myself because it...
Power Punch II is an ancient game from 1992. It's a whopping 31 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient...
