Knockout Kings 2000 - Nintendo 64 Review - HD

Tyson will always be my favorite. But rocky marciano is the best ever.

Ahhh Glenn, still fighting the good fight I see, getting all those N64 games reviewed. You won't stop till you've reviewed them all, will you? Glendust4eva

Boxing games are fighting games no question. The greatest? Muhammad Ali!

lol butter beans arms look wierd but looks quite a good game

id say sports but not all sport titles are bad lol and has to be ali

Just bought this. Not that many copies out there, I don't think.

Prince Naseem

The boxing glove icons in the top left and right of the HUD look like angry, red dinosaur faces to me, so at first I was thinking this game was going to be a lot more cartoony/arcadey.  After that disappointing realization, the game doesn't look too bad lol

I think traditionally that boxing based video games in general could be placed into the fighting games category but when Street Fighter and the host of imitation games came around boxing games fell more under athletic/sports games since those are based off a real sporting event one can learn the difference between a right hook and south paw. Meanwhile the closest you will get to shooting hadoukens is throwing molotov cocktails. 

I had this game as a kid and indeed it's a good game! It's feel realistic and you can do great combo's. Only bad things is the commentator and the fact that boxers go a little bit to fast knockout. Still I don't think it's that arcade. On later age I did some real boxing in the ring, I stopped after 1,5 year because I was really REALLY bad at it. Still the combo's, the way you need to cover, you can dive away and the fact you can't punch all the time because you will get tired really fast makes it really realistic. Fine review, love your videos !!! 

belated but
Sugar Ray Robinson is the right answer.

The greatest boxer of all time is Joe Louis

For the time period, I though this was a decent boxing game when I owned it way back when. It's fairly realistic but still easy to pick up. Modern boxing games have spoiled me and I couldn't really see this game providing much if I went back to it now.

I think the sports/fighting game classification really depends on the game. I'd say the more arcade style, the more I'd classify it as a fighting game. I think Knockout Kings 2000 sneaks its way into the sports category.

Nice game!!! And... Yup, I'm one who wants to beat the hell out of Floyd!!! I know where to go know. Man... PACQUIAO should've won the fight. Seems to me like that fight was fixed. Oh well. He said he's only up for one more fight, then he's quitting.

Lol. Sorry. I meant that he's retiring. Oh well

To me, greatest boxer of all time is Muhammad Ali. But my all time favorite is between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto

id say they are both sports and fighting games.

Good review but I am disappointed that you didn't mention that the referee sounds like, or possibly is, the referee from celebrity deathmatch. I would laugh at the way he says "Your done son"

Roberto Duran is the greatest

Well, in regards to the question, "who is the champ?" the "champ" is always the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World. In my eyes a few names come to mind. Muhammed Ali was the only man to come out of retirement twice to claim the title a total of three times. Joe Louis, "the Brown Bomber", held the title the longest, that duration being twelve years. Finally, Rocky Marciano was the only man to retire the Heavyweight Crown with zero losses, and a 90% knockout rating. Legend as it when Rocky knocked out Joe Louis to obtain the title he cried in the locker room and apologized to Louis for doing so, to which the Brown Bomber said, "The better man won." So, those are my three picks for greatest boxer of all time. Albeit, if we're taking middleweights, Joe Calzaghe always come to mind.

Knockout Kings 2000 is a great Game, I played it a lot on the N64.
But in Germany or in the pal region it called BOX CHAMPIONS 2000. Great Video(s).
The best Boxer of all time is Floyd Mayweather junior.

Thank you, all the best.
Andre Eichstedt

James Braddock

RIP to the Champ.

How do you perform the special punch when boxing glove on the left flashing? Trying all to do it.

Ultimate nostalgia. I remember playing this over a decade ago.

I don't know if their the best of all time but I really like Micky Ward, Lennox Lewis, and Joe Frazer.

Forgot to mention how it ravages your joystick on the N64 controller when you have to get up. My favorite was Iron Mike.

Just bought this gem for 5 bucks at the local retro game store

this game dont have real mexicano

!!! B U T T E R B E A N !!!

Bought ready to rumble instead. I'm happy.

This game is trash

I used to love this game I created myself and and would wreak havoc the combos were kinda slow but meh good game non the less

A good way to spend $4 if you ask me

I'm gonna cheat and say Little Mac. you cant go wrong with the bruiser from the bronx!

I owned a copy of Ready to Rumble on DC but I couldn't get into it. Couldn't find any way of engaging with it. It wasn't as fun as Soul Calibur; and I'm not really into sports. I'd probably have given it a bit more of a chance if it had real boxers though. Although it's very unlikely I would've bought Knockout Kings on N64 of my own volition (being a sports game). I almost always prefer arcadey styles to straight simulation. Favourite boxer? I'm no expert of athleticism or playing style, so I'd probably go more with attitude, character and appearance. Even still I dunno...

I feel that ready to rumble has better graphics and its more fun to play overall, also the sound on ready to rumble is alot better too....but at the end of the day i do remember magazines giving this game some pretty good reviews

I was looking for a good oldschool boxing game. The best I found was "Boxing Legends of the Ring" on the SNES. I never even knew this one existed - it seems pretty cool.

THE HAWK!!!! AMAZING SPEED

OK, so first, if you're using the combo buttons, you're not good at this game. There's plenty of defense to be had as well--and in fact it's how you get good at the game. I actually find this to be a much better simulation than some later releases.

Anyway, Muhammad Ali is the greatest of all time and Tyson would have been but things didn't "go his way". Cuz Demato dying and the firing of Teddy Atlas was Tyson's downfall. If Demato would have reigned in Tyson and stuck with Atlas, Atlas could have taken over as Tyson's father figure and he would have made Tyson the greatest to ever play the sport. That didn't happen and Tyson was, well, a phenom and nothing more. I can't think of him losing to Buster Douglas as anything more indicative of his downfall.

p.s. for anyone who hasn't, you should really watch the Buster Douglas fight. Buster Douglas, for all intents and purposes, is and was a nobody. However, if you watch the match, Buster Douglas beat the shit out of Tyson (and Tyson was in his prime at the time).

INTRO: MUHAMMAD ALI!

Fight night round 3 best boxing game ever imo

game looks fun even if graphics are not good which is normal for such an old game. i like more simulations than arcade games. this game seems in the middle so its nice. the career mode is great and customizations too. i just wish there was more special stuff like pre fight press conference and such just for fun. my favorite boxer from my hometown was adonis superman stevenson but got badly injured and is no longer boxing. he almost died after a fight. its a very tough sport.

This was running at 500 frames per second on Latest Emulator....on VITA

Greatest pound for pound boxer of all time is either Muhammad Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson. There are others who are great as well Jack Johnson, Floyd Mayweather (whom I hate BTW), Joe Jeannette, Sam Lankford, Joe Louis, Marvin Haggler, Sam McVey, Aaron Pryor, Julio Cesar Chavez, Ezzard Charles, Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, etc.

This was my original favorite boxing game

Good old days

This game came out when boxing was still mega popular and had all the popular fighters with the exception of Felix Trinidad

Como se utiliza el golpe de la barra que se llena ?

ROCKY MARCIANO WAS THE BEST UNDEFEATED!