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Yes, now you can follow Punch-Out!! on Twitter photo

Oprah Winfrey breaking new ground and heading face-first into the 21st Century has opened up the flood gates for Twitter's mass market appeal. Now everyone is free to get in on what used to be the Internets best kept secret.

Case in point: Nintendo's upcoming Wii game Punch-Out!! now has its own Twitter account, WVBABoxing. Go on and follow it; it needs friends. Why would you do that? Because you might get some Twitter-exclusive Punch-Out!! goodies, like a few new multiplayer screenshots like the one seen above. 

At the time of this writing, WVBABoxing has few followers. According to Twitter analysis Web site Twanalyst, WVBABoxing has a "likeable sociopatic vain" personality, has a chatty and coherent style, and is a sharer. And sharing is caring.

 








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mrplow8's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 19:51
mrplow8
If they really wanted the new Punch Out to sell they should have made it Oprah Winfrey's Punch Out.
Swizzler121's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 20:19
Swizzler121
they killed punch-out when they made giga mac. the story of punch-out was an extremely lucky little dude beating up people ten times his size. now its a story of a small dude that occasionally gets roid rage and grows to ungodly sizes. no thanks. on a side note he would make a pretty cool enemy, but never protagonist.
mrplow8's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 20:39
mrplow8
Giga Mac isn't in the single player campaign, he's only in multiplayer mode.
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 21:19
atastysammich
Oh geez, it's like they resurrected the Nintendo Fun Club for the digital era.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 21:31
vexed alex
This is probably as interesting as Punch-Out getting a Myspace profile.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 22:07
Chronic Logic
I twittering about twitter metatwittering?
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 22:20
Monodi
I am a Twitter addict, and Punch-Out!! is on of my top 5 favorite game franchises ever.

This is good news to me.
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/23/2009 22:53
Monodi
Well they just shared some "never-seen" and "follower exclusive" screenshots of head-to-head, but they are pretty much captured from the Giga Mac teaser.

Speaking about him...

@Swizzler121

I think the Giga Mac thingy is a shark-jumper move too, the story of the game its brilliant as inspiring for that and adding this gorilla mode was.. I dunno, anticlimatic.

i know it is just for multiplayer, but Little Mac is only Little Mac, that Donkey Kong isn't Little Mac, and it could turn up the doubts for kids new to this game with stuff like "but then why doesn't he transform to beat Super Macho Man?" or "WAH! How do I transform?! Why can't I transform in campaign!?"

Well, still this looks very far from being murdered from it's complete concept and difficulty. maybe it will be easy to us as many veterans are there and we know a lot about many of their styles.

I will sit down and wait so this comes down to my hands. Remember this is a return so they had to update a bunch of stuff so it is satisfying to the old and new audience.

After all, if it doesn't cover all of our expectations, we can always play the classic. You know, the one with freaking Mike Tyson.
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