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The Third Annual Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!! New York Knicks Awards

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The least realistic part of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!, the classic NES game, is not the stereotypes. It’s not the fact that Lil’ Mac, the game’s hero, is so short he literally has to jump off the ground to punch people, which would render his punches mostly useless. It’s not that one fighter can teleport around the ring, or that one drinks so much he’s literally turning purple. The least realistic part is the exchange that occurs between Mac and his trainer, Doc, between rounds, later in the game, when Mac has been getting knocked around pretty good:

LIL’ MAC (frowning; one eye swollen shut; his face literally dented): Help, Doc!