Appearances
Glass Joe's debut was in the first Punch-Out!! game for the arcades in 1984. According to an editor of UGO Networks, the character's role in the arcade game was to give young players a sense of accomplishment, which motivated them to spend quarters trying to beat the more difficult opponents that appear afterward. Glass Joe later appeared in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! for the NES in 1987, which was later renamed to simply Punch-Out!! While he did not appear in Super Punch-Out!! on the Super Nintendo, he was said to have opened a boxing school for potential fighters in the manual. Gabby Jay, the first boxer in Super Punch-Out!!, attended this school, and got his first and only win against Glass Joe. Glass Joe's most recent appearance was in Punch-Out!! for the Wii in 2009. He was one of the first characters revealed in pre-release material. The Wii Punch-Out!! features a mode called "Title Defense", which featured more difficult versions of the opponents. In this mode, Glass Joe is seen wearing protective headgear. The cutscene before this fight shows a doctor performing an X-ray examination on Glass Joe, which leads him to prescribe the headgear to protect his jaw. GameSpy's Ryan Scott wrote that players were given a false sense of security, only to find that Glass Joe was more difficult in this mode.
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