Review by YOR on 26 Dec 2018 (Rating: 3)
Boxing Day would be nothing without a boxing game, and so here's one bearing the name of the beloved Frank Bruno. This is based on Nintendo's boxing game Punch Out under the Bruno name, and it's alright really but I had a hard time getting to grips with the controls. It is also annoying that if you lose you have to reload your opponent again, which isn't so bad on an emulator but if you were running this on a real Spectrum, it can be quite a bastard. Thankfully you are given a code every time you win a fight, meaning if you lost your third fight you can just enter the code given and reload the third fight again rather than go back to the start again, but this only adds to the pain of multi-load. It's not really a bad game, the look is there for sure but the gameplay misses the mark and the multi-load only adds to the troubles. Barry McGuigan's Boxing game is much better than this.
1985 Elite Systems (UK)
by Andy Williams, Trevor Perks, Paul Holmes, Gary Priest and Rory Green
Another average boxing game, to be honest it seems unfair to rate this game with the same 3 star rating I gave Barry McGuigan's, which is a much better game, but overall they both seem just that: average. This game plays similar to Rocky but graphically I think it's inferior, not because the characters are wrongly done, but simply because they look rude and blocky, which is a shame, really. You can slide you boxer left or right which is a good thing unseen in other Boxing games viewed from this angle. There is no much to say about this title, it's a fight game, and you already know what to do in fighting games. It's always the same. Nice conversion though, similar to the original.
