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Boxing (PlayStation)

A fairly generic boxing game, released as part of the Simple series of budget games in Japan.

Regional Differences#

Title Screen#

  • Each release has a different title screen design, the European one being noticeably different than the one of the Japanese and American versions:

Japan

US

Europe

Demo Sequence#

  • The picture displayed in the loading screen prior to the demo sequence was changed:

Japan

US/Europe

Fighters#

  • The name of the character Spice is romanized as Spy's in the original Japanese release, though some of the older graphics were not replaced when the game was localized.
  • In the Japanese release, each character has a subtitle when displayed in the selection screen. These are absent in the localizations.

Character

Subtitle

Translated

Tanaka

苦節五十年

Fifty years of hardship

Ryoko

ボクシング娘。

Boxing girl.

RED

炎のファイター

Flame fighter

B.T.

無敵0才児

The invincible 0-year old

Puma

闇の狩人

Hunter of darkness

Prince

戦う御曹子

Fighting scion

Misha

黒いイナヅマ

Black thunder

Silver Man

銀狼

Silver wolf

GIO

野生児

Wild boy

Kojiromaru

疑惑の横綱

Doubtful yokozuna

Spice

7つの顔の女

Woman of seven faces

Asteka

太陽王

Sun King

Mr. Crown

悲しき道化

The tragic clown

References#


  1. GDRI↩︎
  2. GAME Data Room - PlayStation Software List 2000↩︎
  3. -= Agetec Products (A1 Games) =- - Boxing (archived)↩︎
  4. MiDAS Interactive Entertainment - Release Schedule December 2002 - April 2003 (archived)↩︎