For other games which bear this title, see Heavyweight Champ.

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Heavyweight Champ (ヘビーウェイトチャンプ) is a boxing game released for the Sega System 16 arcade in 1987 and later ported to the Master System and Game Gear in 1991. The game has had an unusual history, having been tied to two professional boxing champions, George Foreman and James "Buster" Douglas.

For a brief period in North America, the game was titled James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing (where it was released alongside the redesigned Master System II), to accompany the Sega Mega Drive game of the same name. It is, however, a very different game to the Mega Drive version, and is sometimes even seen as the superior product. In Europe and Brazil, it was titled George Foreman's KO Boxing, and is again unrelated to the Mega Drive game with the same name. In more recent releases the game has simply been titled as "Heavyweight Champ", presumably because SIMS and Sega no longer had the rights to pair it with those celebrity boxers.

Gameplay

Heavyweight Champ is more traditional fighting game, viewed from the side of the action and controlled using a standard control pad.

Production credits

Master System version (Heavyweight Champ)

Planners: All Members

All Members Programmers: Nonchan, S.Kawa

Nonchan, S.Kawa Designers: Yasukuni, Tommy

Yasukuni, Tommy Sound Composer: Kin

Kin Presented by: Sega





Master System version (George Foreman)

Acclaim Development by: "The White Team"

"The White Team" Dan Feinstein, Tom Gibson, Donn Nauert, Joe Libertella, James Fink Staff Planners: All Members

All Members Programmers: Machida

Machida Designers: Aoyama

Aoyama Sound Composer: Wada, Nishino

Wada, Nishino Special Thanks: Fujioka, Hikita





Magazine articles

Promotional material

US print advert

Print advert in Atuagagdliutit (GL) #1991-05-08 (1991-05-08)

Sega Visions (US) #8: "May/June 1992" (1992-xx-xx) Game Gear print advert in(US) #8: "May/June 1992" (1992-xx-xx)

Sega Visions (US) #8: "May/June 1992" (1992-xx-xx)

GamePro (US) #36: "July 1992" (1992-xx-xx)[12] also published in: Game Gear print advert in(US) #8: "May/June 1992" (1992-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Master System version

60 Based on

15 reviews

Master System, US

(James "Buster" Douglas) Cover Cart

Master System, EU

(Heavyweight Champ) Cover Cart Manual

Master System, EU

(George Foreman) Cover Cart

Master System, AU

(Heavyweight Champ) Cover Cart

Master System, AU

(George Foreman) Cart

Master System, BR (Heavyweight Champ) Cover Cart Manual

Master System, BR (Heavyweight Champ; newer) Cover Cart

Master System, BR (George Foreman) Cover Cart

Game Gear version

66 Based on

17 reviews

Game Gear, JP (Heavyweight Champ) Cover

Game Gear, US

(George Foreman) Cover Cart Manual

Game Gear, EU

(George Foreman) Cover Cart

Game Gear, FR (Blister pack) Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

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