After listening to our plan to develop a boxing game, he said that he and his assistant editors would do it for us. Then I called Nat Loubet, editor of The Ring Magazine and a recognized boxing historian, and asked him to rate 50 heavyweight fighters for us in a few dozen categories. "I contacted Jim and received his blessing and encouragement to use his system, which wasn't patented. That was the key to making our boxing game work. You had a deck of cards, with random numbers on each card, and took one reading from a card, quickly flipped it to get the next reading, etc.
"Jim Barnes started producing games via his Statis-Pro Games company, using a 'Fast Action Card Deck' in place of the standard dice and spinner.
"What happened next was almost beyond fortuitous," Trunzo says. What was throwing a roadblock in our path was an 'activator.' Dice and spinners were just too slow to give the right feel to the flow of a fight."Įnter Statis-Pro Games founder Jim Barnes. He continues: "Ironically, the problem was not creating the fighters or the playing mechanics because we knew the sport and we knew games. So, with the confidence and arrogance of youth, we decided to create our own."
TITLE BOUT CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING DATABASE PRO
"The problem was that aside from a very basic boxing game that was produced by Negamoco, there really wasn't a decent representation of our favorite sport, pro boxing. "My brother and I grew up playing all the basic sports simulation games on the market, everything from Negamco to APBA to Strat-O-Matic to Big League Manager." Jim Trunzo recalls. That environment was perfect for Jim and Tom Trunzo's foray into the world of gaming with the 1979 release of their Title Bout Championship Boxing tabletop game. The 1970s and 80s were a golden age for tabletop simulations, whether you wanted to recreate your favorite sport, explore dungeons and fight monsters, lead armies into battle, or do just about anything else. That can make fight cards a little more interesting, because you begin with a mere $10,000 stake and dreams of Jimmy the Greek grandeur.History of Title Bout Championship Boxing There are no career or role-playing options as seen in most sports management sims, although you can input your name and track your wagers on bouts. They still argue about how Joe Louis would have stacked up against modern competition and whether or not Mike Tyson, in his prime, could have gone toe-to-toe with that guy who "floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee." Now some of these questions can be answered, at least theoretically, courtesy of Title Bout Championship Boxing.Įssentially, Title Bout is centered around asking, "What if?" The gameplay modes include single bouts, fight cards, single- or double-elimination tournaments that feature as many as 16 boxers, and lengthy bout schedules. Created by one of the original developers of Championship Manager, it comes with more than 8,000 fighter records in its database, which is constantly being updated by dedicated volunteers.īoxing fans often fantasize about matching greats from different eras. Title Bout Championship Boxing is the ultimate boxing simulation game.
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