Boxing Legends of The Ring
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Electro Brain (US), American Softworks (Mexico) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer: Sculptured Software | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensor: London Publishing Co., Home Box Office, Hilton Hotels (US) CEG Partnership, Pizza Hit, PepsiCo (Mexico) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Genre: Sports (boxing) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Boxing Legends of The Ring, known in Mexico as Chavez II, is a boxing game for the Sega Mega Drive developed by Sculptured Software. Sponsored in its United States release by sports magazine The Ring and in its Mexican release by professional boxer Julio César Chávez, it was first published in the United States by Electro Brain in October 1993,[1] and was brought to Mexico by American Softworks one year later.[2]
Contents
Gameplay
Boxers
| "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler | |
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| Jake "The Raging Bull" LaMotta | |
| Sugar Ray Robinson | |
| Rocky Graziano | |
| Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran | |
| Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns | |
| Sugar Ray Leonard | |
| James "Lights Out" Toney | |
History
In Mexico, the game was re-branded and sponsored by Julio César Chávez, creating Chavez II (the original Chavez having received similar treatment on the Super Nintendo, formerly being known as Riddick Bowe Boxing). Chavez II is thought to have been the only Mexican-exclusive game released for any Sega console in the entirety of Sega's home console endeavours - it is largely the same game as Boxing Legends of The Ring, though omits some sound effects and has been translated into Spanish.
Sega Channel broadcast history
North America
- 1994-07-06 – 1994-08-06
- 1995-01-01 – 1995-02-01
- 1995-03-01 – 1995-04-01
- 1995-04-01 – 1995-05-01
- 1995-08-01 – 1995-09-01
- 1996-04-01 – 1996-05-01
- 1996-10-01 – 1996-11-01
- 1997-03-28 – 1997-04-11
Production credits
- Programmed by: Ken Moore
- Project Manager: Perry "Mr." Rogers
- Electro Brain Management: Peter Anthony Chiodo
- Illustration Coordination: Thom Kofoed, David Gerhardt
- Design Team: Perry "Mr." Rogers, Ken "Gimme" Moore, Ken "Thrasher" Grant
- Artwork by: Mike Ulrich, Alan Taylor, Joel Izatt, Virginia Sargent
- Additional Artwork by: Kelly Kofoed, Mike Lott, Les Pardew, Ken "Gimme" Moore, Virginia Sargent, Ken Grant
- Music and Sound by: Mark Ganus, Dean Morrell
- Evaluation by: Richard "Boom Boom" Reagan
- Program Testers: Matt Grate, Brian Miller, Lee Smith, Joe Buffington
- Additional Testing by: Ken Moore Jr., Josh Thomas
- Special Thanks to: George Metos, Ronald A. Johnson, Hal Rushton, Ulipiseni Follald, David Gerhardt, Jim Trunzo
Magazine articles
- Main article: Boxing Legends of The Ring/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
PDF
Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #52: "November 1993" (1993-xx-xx)
also published in:
also published in:
- Game Players (US) #0612: "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (1993-1x-xx)[4]
Physical scans
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| Based on 14 reviews | |
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 Cart  PCB  Manual  Reg card   Poster Magazine order form |
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Technical information
- Main article: Boxing Legends of The Ring/Technical information.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 GamePro, "October 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 131
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 12 December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 10
- ↑ File:Boxing Legends Of The Ring MD US Manual.pdf, page 22
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 6 No. 12 December 1993" (US; 1993-1x-xx), page 37
- ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 40
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 6 No. 10 October 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 123
- ↑ Game Power, "Gennaio 1994" (IT; 199x-xx-xx), page 60
- ↑ GamePro, "October 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 128
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "March 1994" (UK; 1994-01-27), page 42
- ↑ Mega, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-16), page 55
- ↑ Mega Action, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-30), page 12
- ↑ MegaTech, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-21), page 80
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "February 1994" (UK; 1993-12-28), page 75
- ↑ Sega Power, "February 1994" (UK; 1994-01-06), page 78
- ↑ Sega Pro, "February 1994" (UK; 1993-12-30), page 40
- ↑ Sega Zone, "January 1994" (UK; 1993-12-23), page 38
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 39
- ↑ Video Games, "1/94" (DE; 1993-12-19), page 90
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