LogFAQs > #978120769

I think Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is one of the very rare NES games where, unless you're already personally familiar with it, a modern understanding of video games doesn't teach you how to play it immediately. If you've never played a Punch-Out game before and you play MTPO, figuring out how to play well is not going to be obvious to you until you've practiced it quite a bit. There aren't a lot of games on the NES I can think of that are like this - most of them are fairly easily 'solved' by the accumulated knowledge and skill of any modern gamer but MTPO remains mysterious and challenging. It's a weirdly well-aged game in that way. I think it'd be kind of fun to make a list of NES games that are challenging for a modern audience because of their unique game design (not just because they are super hard and unforgiving).