Top 10 Bloodiest Close Combat Fighting Games

July 5, 2013 by Ian Miles Cheong

Gameranx takes a hard look at the ten most brutal, fighting combat games in existence, including titles for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

#7 Punch Out!!

Kids these days. They need their polygons and blood fountains and all that newfangled stuff. Back in the day, there was Punch Out!!. It had two exclamation marks. That meant it was special, and everyone sat down and shut up when it entered the room. Also it entered video game history as the game where a relatively normally shaped dude named ‘Little Mac’ punched out mountains of meat five times his size.

Punch Out!! became it’s own series. In a way, Wii Sports – Boxing is a spiritual successor of this game, even though it is much, much less amusing and much less of a cult hit.