A Player Has Defeated Punch-Out’s Mike Tyson in Under 2 Minutes for the First Time

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After 75,000 attempts over five years, Summoning Salt is hanging up the virtual gloves.

Since Mike Tyson's Punch-Out was released on the NES in 1987, millions of players have undertaken millions of digital matches against one of the hardest video game bosses ever: Tyson himself (or, later, the reskinned “Mr.Dream”).

But for his sub-two-minute TKO, Summoning Salt needed almost all of those pauses to luckily come down at the minimum of eight frames (~0.4 seconds on the in-game clock).

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Author / Journalist: Kyle Orland, Ars Technica

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