Hard Puncher - Videogame by Konami

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Hard Puncher

Name: Hard Puncher
Developer: Konami

Year: 1988
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Sports
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Konami Classic

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Competitive
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 3 [High Punch|Low Punch|Block]

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

Hard Puncher Description

A boxing game where you can train between bouts to improve your speed, strength and stamina for the next fight.

Hard Puncher was produced by Konami in 1988.

Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Hard Puncher was produced include Crazy Cop, '88 Games, Akumajou Dracula, Contra (PlayChoice), Chequered Flag, Black Panther, Ajax, Battlantis, Boot Camp, and Blades Of Steel.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Here's a good trick that can work against the computer when you are playing in a one-player game. You can get quite far, but it is a bit boring: press block twice to get your guard up high (covering your face) then waltz over to the opponent and hammer both punch buttons. Wiggling the joystick occasionally will pull off a power move. As long as you punch the opponent constantly until he goes down, he never manages to get up again.

Game Introduction

A boxing game where you mash opponents to a pulp.

Game Play

Compete against your friends or advance through increasingly harder opponents. Training rounds occur every two to three fights. These training rounds improve one of your three qualities: speed, stamina and power, depending on how well you do while training.

The first player controls Rocky Smith and the the second player controls Gentleman Joe. If the second player wins a two-player game, Gentleman Joe advances to the other opponents in the regular game.

You must defeat the first seven opponets to get to The Black Stallion, the undefeated champion. If you beat this final opponent, you will become the champion.

Miscellaneous

This is the Japanese version of The Final Round.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Hard Puncher Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Scarce - There are approximately 5 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 4 of these machines are owned by our active Hard Puncher collectors. And of these, 4 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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This game ranks a 0 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

The main CPUs are a M68000 with a few custom Konami processors. A YAMAHA 2151 and a YAMAHA 3012 generate the game's sound. This game runs on modified Konami Twin16 hardware (Vulcan Venture, Dark Adventure).