In Video Games
- In 1987, Nintendo released Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!, on the NES, based on the arcade game Punch-Out!!, although there was later a version released in 1990 that replaced Mike Tyson with a fictional character, "Mr. Dream", after Nintendo's license with Tyson expired. Tyson is the final opponent in the 1987 game. Defeating Tyson (through boxer Little Mac) is extremely difficult, as he can knock Mac down with a single "Dynamite Punch", modeled after the real-life Tyson's devastating right upper-cut.
- In 1992, a second Nintendo game featuring Mike Tyson entitled Mike Tyson's Intergalactic Power Punch was to be released as a sequel to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. However, due to the Desiree Washington case the project was scrapped and the game was eventually released as Power Punch II with Mike Tyson in the game being replaced with a character named Mark Tyler.
- In the original Street Fighter, there is a boxer simply named "Mike" who bears a loose resemblance to Mike Tyson. The character is sometimes erroneously called "Mike Balrog" from Street Fighter II onwards, despite officially being considered a different character.
- In the Japanese and original version of Capcom's Street Fighter II series, Balrog is called Mike Bison, as a parody of Mike Tyson, possibly with the full name of "Michael Gerard Bison." Capcom USA switched the names of the Shadaloo Grandmasters around for the American versions in order to avoid a potential lawsuit from Mike Tyson. In Street Fighter Alpha 3 one of Balrog's win quotes is "If you fight me like that again I'll have to bite your ear off!"
- Tyson made his video game return in Codemasters' Mike Tyson Boxing in the fall of 2000, for the Sony PlayStation. It was followed up in 2002 with Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing for the Microsoft XBox, and the Sony PlayStation 2.
- The video game Fallout 2 featured a series of boxing matches that concluded with the player fighting a character "The Masticator." The "Masticator" made references to eating ears and was likely a parody of Mike Tyson.
- The game Crash of the Titans features a character named Tiny Tiger, whose high-pitched, lisping voice is a parody of Tyson's own speaking style.
- Tyson appears as a boss in the freeware game I Wanna Be the Guy.
- EA Sports' Fight Night Round 4 marks the debut of Mike Tyson on the Next Gen consoles in 2009. Tyson is featured, along with Muhammad Ali, on the cover of the game.
- Tyson appeared at the SXSW Screenburn Arcade in March 2011 for the launch of his iPhone app Mike Tyson: Main Event.
- Tyson is featured as downloadable content in WWE '13 as a member of the Attitude Era."
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“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
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—Richard Louv (20th century)
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—Philippe Ariés (20th century)