Piston Honda Returns To Punch-Out!!, Mostly Intact

By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001

The latest classic boxer to return to the Wii version of Punch-Out!! will be Tokyo, Japan [[link]] born and bred Piston Honda. Or at least a close approximation of Piston, as Nintendo has changed his name.

The return of the Japanese pugilist, who first (and last) appeared in the NES version of Punch-Out!! comes with a slight concession. Nintendo has changed his family name from Honda to Hondo. When we asked Nintendo earlier this week about the change, it opted not to comment [[link]] on the grounds that the character hadn’t yet been officially announced.

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Now that he has, we’ve asked again. Our best guess is that, despite Honda being a not uncommon family name in Japan, Nintendo didn’t want to step on the copyright established by the car maker of the same name. Which seems like a wise thing to do.

Now if they’ll just listen to our petition for a reversal of Soda Popinski’s name to the original Vodka Drunkenski, we’ll be happy.

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