Boxing games, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! offered the best of the best when it came to a great boxing game. Super music, creative game play, stunning graphics and an amazing motive. That is the boxing game everyone should play, so I'm asking you, why are you here? Do you know that this game just won't amount to the amazing degree that Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! was? If you think other boxing games like that exists, then think again, or at the very least, think that this game doesn't. Seriously, that game had the perfect game play, the perfect sports game. It had everything. This game, Muhammad Ali's Boxing, doesn't, in any shape or form, in any given context, ever. You're better off just turning back and playing what you know to be great. Oh, just testing something new? Wanting to be adventurous? One of those gamers? This game will be one of the biggest time wasters you could ever imagine, it's not even funny. It's exceedingly boring, dull, uncreative and very, very repetitive, not to mention stupidly easy. However, if you're still convinced, then maybe I should give you each and every detail as to why this game sucks harder than a vacuum on overdrive.

The game follows Muhammad Ali's boxing career, but that's pretty much it. From what I get from it, some guy wants to be the boxing champion of whatever class, and achieves it. In the instruction booklet, it gives you key points to his career life, but I ignore those because something like that should be expressed through the game, because that what the game is about, his boxing career. The game should tell me the key points in itself. This makes the story very weak to begin with. Who knows, maybe this Muhammad Ali guy went through a lot of stuff to become the champion or boxing, maybe the story was pretty breath taking, but since the developers felt that stuff like that wasn't important to put in the game itself, then I naturally assume this is a weak, boring story to begin with. To me, it's just another guy boxing to the top.

The game on it's own is just boxing match after boxing match, gaining money to fight higher ranks of the league, until you become rank number 1. Everyone looks the same, everyone fights the same, and every match is exactly the same. There is literally no variation between the entire span of the game, except for they take more hits to knock out. I was so stunned at how simple and boring the game play was, I actually scanned the instruction booklet extensively to see if it there was more to it than just mashing the A and B button. There has to be like a special move or a block somewhere. I was shocked to find that the controls really were mashing A and B until you win. There is zero strategy. Seriously, there is no use in backing away between punches, or alternating between A and B punches, all you have to do, is continuously walk up to your opponent, and mash the A button, you don't even need to use the B button.

The only think that makes this remotely interesting is the training status. You get a certain amount of weeks to train yourself for the upcoming match, which will increase your speed, power, and accuracy. This is completely useless. It does nothing. It doesn't matter if your power is 2 or 32, it does the same amount of damage. The matches get longer and longer, and it takes more and more hits to knock out your opponent, up to an unrealistic level. The game play works with you punching your opponent to take down their stamina, but you gotta land constant hits, otherwise your opponent will just gain their stamina back again. If you lower their energy to zero, you would think they would automatically faint right? No. At first maybe, but after a while, as you rise through the ranks, it'll take like 5 more punches to knock them out, then 15 more punches, then 30, then 100, even though their stamina is dead down. Apparently you can press A and B together to activate some knock out move, but it never works. I also raised my power to the highest it could be, and it still takes forever to knock them out. Their stamina is completely down and I've been punching them for the past decade! How much more can they take??? In fact, I was able to skip 10 ranks to the big shot, the end, rank number 1, without bothering to train properly, and was constantly landing hits on him. Never once did he fall over throughout the entire match, and I won via landing more punches than he did. How realistic is that? I was glad it actually ended.

Now for the music. The music has mixed feelings for me. There is very little music in the game, but what little music there is, is amazing. There is pretty much only one proper song on it, and it sounds like a Mega Man tune. It's pretty awesome, actually, which is why I gave the music an 8. However, that music was never really used in anything important in the actual game, like boxing or training, which was a real shame. It's a really big let down that the game had such little music. It would have been really good if there was more music like it's one great song, it would have made the entire thing more lively. The rest of the games music is silent, or has muffled sound effects, and it doesn't do well for the game's atmosphere.

The graphics I also have to admit, are smooth and life like for the game boy. Really ahead of itself for it's time. The animations were amazingly smooth for its system, the mug shots of all the boxers were nice and detailed, and the rotating boxing ring thing worked well and seemed real enough. I have to really hand it to them on the graphics section, however, since there is very little to admire in the form of graphics, I can't say much. All the boxers look the same, exactly the same. The new boxers are the only variation to the same old boring boxing ring, and they couldn't be bothered to make them look different. A huge disappointment, really.

Overall, I give this game a 4.3/10 for the music and graphics only.     Aside from that, this game as little to offer. It's dull, boring, repetitive and has zero replay value, as every boxing match is essentially the same. After two matches, you've pretty much seen everything that this game has to offer. Doing anymore matches will just be a colossal waste of time, and will probably numb your brain by the tile you get to rank 10 or so. It's too easy, I was literally just mashing the A and B button mindlessly, hardly paying attention to the screen. This is a terribly game, if you can call it a game. Don't bother wasting your time with this one.