Nintendo 64 Longplay: Ready 2 Rumble Boxing

Played on a PAL copy of the game.
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing is a boxing video game developed by Midway Studios San Diego, published by Midway Games in 1999 for the Dreamcast, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, and Nintendo 64. The success of the Dreamcast version led to it becoming one of the few Sega All Stars titles.
Like Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series, it features many characters with colorful personalities (i.e. Afro Thunder, Boris "The Bear" Knokimov, etc.); however, unlike the Punch-Out!! series, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing is in 3D, thus allowing for more control over one's character in the ring. Also unlike Punch-Out!!, players can choose whichever boxer they want from a rather large selection of characters.
Throughout the fights in the game, there is a special RUMBLE meter which fills up, one or two letters at a time, until the word "RUMBLE" is spelled at the bottom of the screen. Letters can be obtained by successfully landing hard blows; most such actions will yield one letter, though some particularly strong punches may yield more. Once the meter is full, the player can power himself up, enabling access to a special combo called "Rumble Flurry", activated by pressing a button combination. Each character's "flurry" is unique to them, and consists of a series of punches which does a large amount of damage if landed successfully.
One unique graphic feature of the game is the gradual bruises gained by players as the fight progresses (like hematomas and swellings), present in all fifth-generation versions. While this is not necessarily a new feature to games (it had been implemented before in SNK's 1992 game Art of Fighting), it garnered much appraisal from reviewers, because of the added fun factor this element supplied to the game.
The Game Boy Color version was one of the few games for the system to feature built-in rumble.
The Dreamcast, PlayStation, and Nintendo 64 versions each have an exclusive boxer: these are, respectively, Jimmy Blood, Gino Stiletto, and J.R. Flurry.
Ring announcer Michael Buffer appears in the game as himself

[@sarahlo4661]

Core memory unlocked

[@delboy-su3wf]

The rumble game on Xbox every swing the charge up effect. I used live ready to rumble on N64 and you only got the charge up after lots of punching

[@delboy-su3wf]

every hit felt good .im playing Xbox version and i just don't fell in control

[@desireejohnson24]

😭😭😭😭😭

[@G.L.999]

Imagine if this had been 'Punch Out 64'! That would've been wild back in the day!

[@ProjectRedfoot]

Seriously! I used to think the same thing.

[@MVFASATCG]

Damn I remember going to Hollywood Video as a kid and renting this out !

[@LOJ777]

Wow Hollywood video!? You took it back. I remember renting this and Mario party 😂

[@mesquitegirl2013]

Yes

[@CobyJames90smade]

Hollywood video and game crazy, the good days

[@Romaticstyle]

This a real classic game

[@metalhead7221]

This game was super ahead of its time

[@whome1202]

Man if you never got to play this game in the 90s I feel so bad for you I just feel bad for anyone who didn’t experience the 90s as a kid gaming what a magical time

[@LemmyFan123]

I forgot, I used to have this game when I was a kid!

[@tatienouorest3358]

I just had flashbacks of « Let’s get ready to RUMBLLLLEE! » and here I am

[@Dynamik86]

One of the best games on one of the best systems

[@Strapboi1017]

This and mortal combat

[@Double_G392]

The 64 was legendary to me and i was born in 97

[@707zacbuster]

Thats where we disagree. You wanna truly enjoy ready 2 rumble? You HAD to play this on the dreamcast. Fighting is way more fast paced anf chaotic, the n64 looks slow and clunky.

[@WeaponUpgrade]

@@707zacbusteri definitely agree this game looks completely different on dreamcast

[@meatbags2]

I Use to love this game

[@youngkob3408]

I remember when I was like 8 years old my mom picked up a N64 and I think it was this game that came with it(unless there’s other boxing games) but anyways I didn’t like it too much and the controller was confusing for my kid brain so she returned it and got a SNES with tons of games and that thing was the shit tbh. But maybe if we got super Mario 64 or golden eye we might’ve kept it, but I just remember me and my mom not being a fan of the N64 (she grew up playing SNES anyways , Mario all stars was probably our favorite game)

[@DarthDimmadome]

Bro whoever own Midway gaming rights (I assume Warner Bros) needs to rerelase all of the Midway classics. R2R, Gauntlet Dark legacy, Psy-Ops, and so many more.

[@anthonymcbride855]

The first one and the second one are my childhood

[@Wesley_C]

I played this game when I was a childhood, I rented it.

[@chriswilkinson9400]

Play long time ago Nintendo 64

[@Edwin6264.]

@@chriswilkinson9400 long ago nintendo 64

[@jabmaster1000]

I was also a childhood

[@Edwin6264.]

@@jabmaster1000 i was at childhood too

[@covertstyle7148]

I remember playing this game with my brother's

[@georgemcd6720]

"Somebody better call the doctoooor"

[@phatfat7794]

what do you have to press when it spell out rumble

[@nintendorakyamato1859]

Rumble Time!

[@beaniegee5129]

Love that game!!

[@DomAnimeLover]

Bro this game used to look so nice like of it was 4K back in the days.

[@John01ization]

Classic! I remember Michael Jackson was in this game 🎯

[@TheSupersmash97]

The sequel

[@LemmyFan123]

Wait, I didn’t know he was in it

[@TheSupersmash97]

@@LemmyFan123 the sequel not this one

[@beaniegee5129]

Classic!!

[@thestoicwhinger]

I never knew this was on the 64

[@zopettyfromthat4345]

The last song is underrated 💯

[@LarryBanks85]

Lmao I remember this game.

[@beaniegee5129]

Awesome!!

[@dotqueenDSGB]

Played this as a child

[@nintendorakyamato1859]

Willy Johnson is 108 years old?!😱😱😱😱

[@Edwin6264.]

So nonsense lol

[@nintendorakyamato1859]

@@Edwin6264. I agree.

[@DannyValdez-s6g]

Ps1 I played it on

[@roykoopa58]

2

[@SharonThurman-u8y]

I already have ready 2 rumble boxing round 2 for Nintendo 64 i just need the first one.