Punch King

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Punch King
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Developer(s) Full Fat
Publisher(s) Acclaim Entertainment
Platform(s) Game Boy Advance
Release
  • NA: May 30, 2002 [1]
  • EU: July 26, 2002
Genre(s) Sports video game
Mode(s) Single-player

Punch King is a boxing video game developed by Full Fat and published by Acclaim Entertainment for Game Boy Advance in 2002.

Contents

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2]

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