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PrinceOfKoopas posted...

Punch-Out!! isn't a fighting game, but I also reject saying it's a sports game.
It's more accurately a puzzle game.
(Sports game is also a stupid genre anyway.)

charmander6000 posted...

I'm okay, with not classifying Punch-Out as a fighting game, but then it's not a sports game. At best it's a sport themed puzzle game.

Boxing games, along with MMA and wrestling games, are considered to be related to both sports and fighting games, and have been so for many years. You might not like that, but boxing games (including Punch-Out) has more in common with sports games like Madden (from a theme and simulation perspective) and fighting games like Street Fighter (from a gameplay mechanics perspective) as opposed to a game like Tetris or Professor Layton. I mean, are you guys gonna tell me that Inazuma Eleven isn't a sports game? That sounds just absurd to me.