I’ve put off a Nintendo Wii purchase up to this point, but looks like that might change now that the system is about to release an updated version of Punch-Out!!, also known as the single greatest video game of all time*.

Granted, this new version won’t have its former namesake—this guy—but it looks like all the old favorites (King Hippo, Piston Honda, Glass Joe) are back. And just when you thought it could not get any better, their commercial features Isiah Whitlock Jr. (The Wire‘s Clay Davis) as Doc, the wise trainer of a disgraced Little Mac.

Sheeeeeeeeet, looks like I’m buying a Wii.

* according to someone whose video game experience peaked in 1989.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dEaL8HqufFI%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

2 replies on “Time to Get a Wii”

  1. agreed. best vid ever! if you’re a NES fan you’ll want to check out super paper mario. its an updated version of the OG super mario and is pretty great too…

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