Picked up a Punch-Out!! on a whim

Me too...I can't get past Bald Bull yet, but I'm almost there.

I also cant get past Bald Bull.

My brother-in-law beat Bald Bull the first (and only) time he ever played the game. I've never seen anyone do that before. I first started playing Punch-Out in 1984 when I was 9 years old and it took me a couple/few months before I beat Bald Bull for the first time. No one else I watched play the game could beat Bald Bull either, except for one guy who was in high school (he couldn't beat Kid Quick though). My cousin Peter spent his whole $5 allowance one time trying to beat Bald Bull, and couldn't do it. He also got in trouble for it because his mother didn't want him playing video games.

But once you figure out what you're supposed to do, Bald Bull is easy.
 
But once you figure out what you're supposed to do, Bald Bull is easy.
Yeah, I figured out his double hop weakness but sometimes still get the timing wrong.

I remember watching a video about some newly found Easter eggs within Punch Out! which had cues from the crowd as to when to punch your opponent for a KO.
Yeah, I saw this a while back as well but haven't watched it again since I got the game. Probably still going to give it some more time before trying to memorize all those.
 
Yeah, I figured out his double hop weakness but sometimes still get the timing wrong.

I'm not sure what you're referring to. Is that during his "bull charge"? If so, you don't even need to knock him down during that to beat him. You can just dodge it. Unlike in the NES's Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, he doesn't keep doing it if you dodge it. Just dodge his punches and get in your string of free punches after each dodge, while he's stunned. Use all lefts to the head. If you use rights or alternate left and right punches he often comes out of his stun quicker, giving you zero to two free punches instead of the usual four. Right punches are slower than lefts, but deal more damage. Whether you use rights, lefts, or both, depends on who you're fighting. Kid Quick for example, is easiest to beat when using only rights to the head.

Bald Bull is safe to taunt with punches (i.e., throw punches while he's just standing there, which he nearly always blocks), but don't keep punching when he starts to punch (unless you know the exact timing to connect with a counter punch which will stun him). Let him throw his punch, which you dodge, which gets you a series of free punches while he's stunned. That's the key to Punch-Out and Super Punch-Out in general, though certain fighters have certain quirks.

In Super Punch-Out it isn't usually a good idea to taunt with punches, unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's why I had so much trouble with Super Punch-Out when I first started playing it in '87 after already being pretty good at Punch-Out. I couldn't get past Vodka Drunkenski, who, like Bald Bull, is the third opponent. It was because I was in the habit of taunting with punches, which isn't a good idea because he will usually counter punch you when you do that (at advanced levels you can use that to your advantage in certain circumstances though, i.e., sometimes you need to intentionally take a hit to set up a big series of hits of your own). With him, in general, it's best to wait for him to throw a punch, dodge, throw exactly 4 punches to the head (or however many free stunned punches you get; 4 is typical), repeat.
 
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Is that during his "bull charge"? If so, you don't even need to knock him down during that to beat him. You can just dodge it.
Thanks for the tips. But yes, that's what I was referring to. If you jab right as he hits his second "hop", it's a one hit knock down. And he always does it at the same tiem on the clock apparently, so you can prepare for it. It's after those two downs that he gets stupid fast and I've yet to get a third.
 
Thanks for the tips. But yes, that's what I was referring to. If you jab right as he hits his second "hop", it's a one hit knock down. And he always does it at the same tiem on the clock apparently, so you can prepare for it. It's after those two downs that he gets stupid fast and I've yet to get a third.

As a kid I never went for the one-hit-KO during his bull charge because I thought it was too risky and I could win every time without doing it anyway. These days I have the timing down for it though. I was very annoyed the first time I played Mike Tyson's Punch-Out when I dodged his "Bull Charge" and he just kept doing it, indefinitely until the time ran out.

By the way, Bald Bull stays down after the second KO if you don't get hit or only get hit once or twice during the fight, so you won't have to face a third Bull Charge if you can mostly avoid getting hit.
 
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