10 Alternate Video Game Boss Strategies You Never Knew
1. Secret Visual Cues Tell You When To Punch - Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! may have been on the market for over 30 years, but only in recent times have some of the game's fascinatingly subtle mechanics actually been revealed.
Back in 2009, the late, great Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata revealed that the infamously difficult boxing game actually featured hidden visual cues to indicate the most opportune moment for players to strike.
Iwata stated that when fighting mid-game boss Bald Bull for the first time, the flash of a camera signals the perfect time to throw a punch, and in 2016, fans uncovered that there were other sneaky tells hidden throughout several boss fights in the game.
In the second fights against Piston Honda and Bald Bull in the game's second half, a bearded man in the front row of the audience will distinctly bob his head down, indicating that players should throw a punch to knock the fighters down.
That these hidden tactics went largely undiscovered for over two decades is staggeringly impressive, giving players a much-needed leg-up as they do.