is a 1984

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developed and published by Sega for the

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,Champion Boxing
GameSpy and later ported to the arcades, only in Japan and

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. It was

Sega-AM2 previously known as is a video game development team within the Japanese multinational video game developer Sega. Yu Suzuki, who had previously developed arcade games for Sega including '' Hang-On'' and ''Out Run'', was the first manager of ...

founder and leader

Yu Suzuki is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer, and engineer, who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Considered one of the first auteurs of video games, he has been responsible for a number of Sega's arcade hits, including three-dimensio ...

's debut creation, as well as that of Rieko Kodama. In 1985, a successor of ''Champion Boxing'' titled ''Champion Pro Wrestling'' was released in the arcades, and ported to the SG-1000 and the

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home computer the same year. However, this is a

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game instead of a boxing game.

Development

described ''Champion Boxing'' as a minor project with very little staff, and said that because of this it allowed him to learn the process of games development with very little pressure. Because the game was understaffed for designers, Suzuki actually contributed some of the drawings for the various punching animations. According to Suzuki, the game was developed for the SG-1000 first, and then the arcade version was created by simply installing an SG-1000 in an arcade cabinet. Pengo makes a cameo after a KO.

References

External links

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''Champion Boxing'' at arcade-history
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