{"id":8768,"date":"2016-04-14T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2016-04-12T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T16:51:53","slug":"punch-out-secret-strategy-discovered-after-29-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/punch-out-secret-strategy-discovered-after-29-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Punch-Out Secret Strategy Discovered After 29 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gaming\/comments\/4dybvk\/i_think_i_discovered_a_new_easter_egg_in_mike\/#prclt-QTjC9r2O\" target=\"_blank\">one tenacious Reddit user<\/a> posted some enlightening gameplay footage from Punch Out, a beloved classic NES game from 1987. Even after all this time, it seems that there are still a few secrets that gamers have yet to discover.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The discovery is one that reveals to the player a key moment in which certain opponents can be KO&#8217;d in one hit. There is a bearded man in the crowd that ducks his head when the player is supposed to punch. By timing this correctly, the game&#8217;s protagonist, Litte Mac, will knock out his opponent with a single punch. Check out the explanation video below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fR37cPR_1_4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, one tenacious Reddit user posted some enlightening gameplay footage from Punch Out, a beloved classic NES game from 1987. Even after all this time, it seems that there are still a few secrets that gamers have yet to discover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":8771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,4225,327],"tags":[5181,57,5175,270,5178,519,2778,5176,2164,5174,235,98,2788,2787,1500,549,5177,5179,5180,1669],"class_list":["post-8768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-retro-games","category-videos","tag-5181","tag-8bit","tag-boxing","tag-classic","tag-easter-egg","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-little-mac","tag-mac","tag-mike-tyson","tag-nes","tag-nintendo","tag-punch-out","tag-punchout","tag-reddit","tag-retro","tag-secret","tag-strat","tag-strategy","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Bald_Bull_-_Punch_Out___-_YouTube-e1460416502594.png?fit=574%2C374&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}