Reviews

What a strange name for a game...what the heck is this you ask? Well it's boxing.....boxing where you can cheat that is! Yes here you can kick or headbutt your opponent so as long as the ref isn't looking otherwise he'll call a foul....hence the name of the game. In all honesty though this isn't good, the boxers look prancy and constipated, the controls are very awkward, it looks outdated for 1989 and it's just not very fun at all.

But the absolute crime of it all was when Codemasters a year later in 1990, somehow re-released this very game as their "new" release Pro Boxing Simulator, even though this isn't pro boxing whatsoever!!

So it's a "Professional Boxing Simulator" when you can kick and headbutt your opponent is it? Plus you have lives and if you're counted out you simply lose one life rather than lose the fight.

How is this simulation? How can this be called Pro Boxing??

They successfully managed to rip-off a lot of people with this stunt and eventually offered re-funds to anyone who bought it thinking it was a "new game" where it obviously wasn't! FOOLS!

1989 Superior Software (UK)
by Charles Goodwin

All this years later, this game really makes laugh now.
There is so many ludicrous and even bizarre things go on, that I really can't take it seriously. Some of the fighters moves are hilarious. And the cheating and low shots you are "allowed" to perform, when the referee isn't looking, is an unusual feature, to say the least, on a so called professional boxing simulator. But let's be honest, professional boxers also do their cheating...
The game is a bit sloppy, but as a few fun moments.

Pretty dull and plain boxing game !

This is an atrocious boxing game that looks dated for 1989 and had some pretty god awful gameplay. And then Code Masters managed to scam us all by making a "Pro Boxing Simulator" out of this crap! So if low blows and referees falling asleep mid-fight is a "Boxing Simulator", give me a "Snooker Simulator" where you can poke your opponent's ass with your cue while he's taking a shot to put him off, or a "Football Simulator" where you can score an easy goal because the goalkeeper's having a shag behind the net. For this to be called "realistic" is laughable, but then for it to be re-released as a "simulator" is beyond a joke, but that's marketing for you.