The Punch-Out!! series has been a victim of revisionist history. Few people mistook the games as simulations of real boxing, but were all of those fond memories still misguided? Every opponent was just a fixed pattern of jabs and uppercuts, designed to be memorized through trial and error.
This Monday the entire videogaming world will be converging on Los Angeles. There will be thousands of journalists, game developers, publicists, and celebrities. There...