Title Bout (1979)

Avalon Hill's card-driven sports game of Professional Boxing. Play with over 500 current (as of 1979 and up to 1990) and all time great Boxers for each weight division. Create tournaments, arrange fantasy matchups and title bouts. Ali vs Marciano? That can happen in this game. The game can simulate a bout of 10,12, or 15 rounds. There are TKO's, injuries, and KO's. Different card strategies can be employed to influence each bout as well.

from "The Avalon Hill General Index and Company History, 1952-1980"

Title Bout (1980)
Freelance design revised by Avalon Hill
Designed by Jim Trunzo
Development by N/A

A statistically based boxing game with individual rated real life boxers of the past and present. Highly acclaimed as both a simulation and a game. New boxer ratings are made available for contemporary fighters every two years and sold separately, or in some cases included as free inserts in ALL STAR REPLAY

Magazine References:

The GENERAL Index Article List:

• The GENERAL Vol.17,No.6
  • The Question Box - Title Bout
• The GENERAL Vol.25,No.3
  • Title Bout – “Sports Special - The Knockout game” (Strategy) Jim Burnett