Heavyweight Champ (8-bit)
From Sega Retro
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| Heavyweight Champ (8-bit) |
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| System(s): Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear |
| Publisher: Sega, Flying Edge (George Foreman's KO Boxing) |
| Developer: SIMS |
| Genre: Sports |
Heavyweight Champ (ヘビーウェイトチャンプ) is a boxing game released for the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear in 1991. The game has had an unusal history, having been tied to two professional boxing champions, George Foreman and James "Buster" Douglas.
For a brief period in North America, the game was titled James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing, to accompany the Sega Mega Drive game of the same name. It is, however, a very different game to the Mega Drive version, and is sometimes even seen as the superior product. In Europe and Brazil, it was titled George Foreman's KO Boxing, and is again unrelated to the Mega Drive game with the same name. In more recent releases the game has simply been titled as "Heavyweight Champ", assumedly because SIMS and Sega no longer had the rights to pair it with those celebrity boxers.
Physical Scans
Master System Version
US James "Buster" Douglas cover
EU cover
EU George Foreman cover
BR cover
EU George Foreman cover
Game Gear Version
EU George Foreman front cover
