Rocky (1987 video game)

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{{Infobox video game

|title = Rocky

|image = Rocky SMS.jpg

|caption = Cover art

|developer = Sega

|publisher = Sega

|released = {{vgrelease|JP|April 19, 1987{{cite web |title=Software List |url=https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |website=Sega Hard Encyclopedia |publisher=Sega Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621034428/https://sega.jp/history/hard/segamark3/software.html |access-date=May 15, 2023 |archive-date=2019-06-21 |language=ja}}|NA|July 1987{{cite news |title=Availability Update |work=Computer Entertainer |date=August 1987 |page=13 |url=http://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/newsletters/video_game_update/computer_entertainer_aug87.pdf#page=13}}|EU|August 1987{{cite web|title=Two-Mega Cartridges |url=https://www.smspower.org/Scans/Mastertronic-Catalogue-TheSegaMasterSystemGameCatalog1987-A?gallerypage=3|work=Mastertronic - The Sega Master System Game Catalog 1987 - A - United Kingdom Catalogue|publisher=Mastertronic|accessdate=24 September 2024}}}}

|genre = Traditional sports (boxing)

|modes = Single-player, multiplayer

|platforms = Master System

}}

Rocky is the second video game based on the popular Rocky franchise, developed and published by Sega and released for the Master System in 1987. The player must train Rocky Balboa before each fight to improve his skills. Rocky possesses a straight punch, a hook, an uppercut, and body punch as well as various combos.

Plot

The opponents, in order, are: Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, and Ivan Drago.

Fights are of 15 rounds duration, with an increasing level of difficulty depending on the opponent, and different strategies required to overcome each.

The game also features a two-player mode where player two can choose from any of the above opponents, while player one always controls Rocky.

Reception

=Critical response=

Computer Gaming World in 1988 stated that Rocky had "the most eye-popping graphics".{{cite magazine | title=Video Gaming World | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=November 1988 |author1=Kunkel, Bill |author2=Worley, Joyce |author3=Katz, Arnie | pages=54}}

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