Heavyweight Championship Boxing lets you take on Mai Taison and Aporo Food in the ring, at least if you're playing the Japanese version.
Regional Differences#
Title Screen#
In Japan, the game was simply titled Boxing. (To be fair, this was the first boxing game released for Game Boy.) The US version briefly displays the copyright and publisher info on a separate screen, unlike the Japanese version.
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Main Menu#
The Japanese version's main menu is a bit confusing: ROUND and TIME can only be adjusted in 2-player mode, but the game will still show these options in 1-player mode. In the US version, the menu for 1-player mode only shows the MUSIC option.
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Character Names#
In the Japanese version, the names are all garbled references to real-life boxers and fictional characters from other media. These were all genericized for the US version.
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Mai Taison |
The Champ |
Aporo Food |
Mike Mauler |
John Wild |
Lefty O'Hook |
Rocky Star |
Johnny Jab |
Joe Ibuki |
Tokyo Thunder |
Eiwa Akai |
Lightning Lou |
Round Bunny#
The round girl looks like a Playboy bunny in the Japanese version. This was modified for the US release for obvious reasons.
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Both versions display the round girl scrolled up by 1 pixel every round, so at the final 12th round we may see at least 12 more pixels of her lower body part. The Japanese version, additionally, has an Easter egg cheat: at the 12th round screen, hold Down, then quickly press A or B to scroll the girl's picture up to an additional 24 pixels, revealing a full picture. Although this Easter Egg is disabled in the US version, the girl's picture is also fully drawn (with stockings even removed), but can't be seen normally on the actual hardware during the game, rendering this portion of picture unused.
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Ending#
The Japanese version has the "ending" after beating the 5th opponent, but then you fight a 6th one, which nets you the credits. In the US version, beating the 6th opponent nets you both the ending and credits. The ending text are different between versions too.
Publisher#
Any mention or logo of the Japanese publisher (Tonkin House), was replaced with logos for the US publisher (Activision).
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Continues#
The Japanese version allows for three continues during a fight, but the US version only allows one.