Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing

For the Sega Game Gear version, see Evander Holyfield Boxing.

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Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Acme Interactive, Nu Romantic Productions, Sega of America
Sound driver: GEMS
Genre: Sports
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1992-10-30 ¥7,8007,800 G-4084 US 1992-08 $49.9549.95 1215 EU 1992-09-24 1215 PT 199x UK 1992-09-24 £49.9949.99 1215 SE (Rental) 199x CA 199x BR 199x 046710 AS 199x

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Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing, also called Evander Holyfield Boxing (ホリフィールドボクシング) in Japan, is a 1992 boxing game for the Sega Mega Drive by Sega and Acme Interactive.

The graphics and match engine would be reused in the 1994 game Greatest Heavyweights.

Gameplay

In Career Mode, you can create your own boxer with several predefined appearance settings and stats (which are mutual — changing one will change the others appropriately). In Exhibition Mode, you can only choose from various professional boxers.

Matches occur in 2D with a pseudo-3D perspective where moving to the left or to the right will "rotate' the field behind you. punches with the left fist, blocks, and punches with the right fist, with various moves done by holding the D-pad in various positions while hitting the punch buttons.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing	Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing
English (US)	Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing	Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing
Japanese	ホリフィールドボクシング	Evander Holyfield Boxing

Production credits

• Designed and produced by: Acme Interactive Inc for Sega of America Inc
• Program and Design: Michael Lamb
• Graphics: Jeff Godfrey
• Additional Graphics: Stephen Thomson
• Music by: Nu Romantic Productions
• FX by: Brian Howarth
• PC Boxing by: Mike Knauer
• Testing and Tweaking: Robert Hemphill and the Sega testing department
• Thanks to: John Brandwood, Steve Huges, Bob Jacob, Terry Lloyd, James Maxwell and Bernie Wong
• Produced for Sega by: Scott Berfield

Source: In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #39: "October 1992" (1992-xx-xx)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1992-11: "November 1992" (1992-10-08)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication Score Source Beep! MegaDrive (JP) 58 Beep! MegaDrive (readers) (JP) 67 Console Mania (IT) 80 Consoles + (FR) 52 GamePro (US) 88 Hippon Super (JP) 60 №1992-10, p47 Joypad (FR) 64 Joystick (FR) 70 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) 57 Mega (UK) 60 №15, p77 MegaTech (UK) 58 №8, p44-47 Mean Machines (UK) 52 Player One (FR) 66 Sega Force (SE) 54 Sega Force (UK) 89 Sega Pro (UK) 81 №12, p54-56

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Based on 16 reviews

Mega Drive, JP
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Mega Drive, US
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Mega Drive, US (alt)
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Mega Drive, EU
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Mega Drive, PT
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Mega Drive, SE (rental)
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Mega Drive, BR
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Mega Drive, CA
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Mega Drive, AS†
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 4fef37c8 MD5 91f8f3ef27055687a12015b0123cc067 SHA-1 eb4aca22f8b5837a0a0b10491c46714948b09844	512kB	1992-07	Cartridge (US/EU/JP)