Punch-Out!! did not start with a love of boxing but with a warehouse full of unsold Donkey Kong arcade monitors in 1984. This episode explains how Genyo Takeda and Nintendo R&D3 were told to build a game requiring two stacked screens, how that tall narrow view forced the over-the-shoulder camera and wireframe fighter, and why the result is better understood as a rhythm puzzle in boxing gloves than a sports simulation.

The hosts cover the arcade originals and Super Punch-Out!!'s ducking, the Japanese Famicom version awarded as a golf tournament prize, the 1987 NES release that introduced Little Mac and Doc Louis, the frame-perfect Mike Tyson fight, and the 1990 swap to Mr. Dream after Tyson lost to Buster Douglas and the three-year license expired. They also trace experiments like the Game and Watch Micro Vs. Boxing and the 1985 Arm Wres ...