The latest release is on the NES/Famicom as part as the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service on April 10, 2019. "Punch-Out!!" has mainly been well received by critics. A GameSpot reader poll ranked it as the 6th greatest NES game. It was rated the 17th best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list. In August 2008, Nintendo Power listed it as the sixth best Nintendo Entertainment System video game, praising it for putting arcade-style fun over realism. Author Steve L. Kent called it the second major game of 1987. Author Nathan Lockard cited the graphics, violence, controls, and the variety of its being a "true classic" and one of the best NES games. GamesRadar ranked it the 11th best NES game ever made. The staff called it a "brilliant puzzle game [disguised] as a sports game." "Punch-Out!!" sold in excess of 2 million copies. "Game Informer" ranked the Mike Tyson version as its 14th favorite game ever in 2001. The staff noted that no boxing game since "Punch-Out" has been as "beloved." "Punch-Out!!" was featured in the comic books of Valiant's Nintendo Comics System. Three stories are based around Little Mac, Doc Louis, and other boxers from the NES version and Mac briefly appears in the comic that introduces the story of "". Mac doesn't appear in the "Captain N" stories himself; however, King Hippo is featured as a villain. Also, in the opening sequence of the "Captain N" TV series, the protagonist Kevin Keene was seen playing "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" before being forced into a vortex that formed in his television's screen. In "Super Smash Bros. Brawl", Little Mac appears as a regular Trophy and an Assist Trophy. In the same game, the music from the Manhattan skyline scene in "Punch-Out!!" can be heard in the song titled "Famicom Medley." In the Wii game titled "Captain Rainbow", Little Mac appears as a supporting character. Little Mac makes his debut as a playable character in "Super Smash Bros. for 3DS" and "Super Smash Bros. for Wii U" and returned in "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate". "Punch-Out!!" made an appearance on The Tonight Show on October 29, 2014. Mike Tyson, being one of the guests that night, was challenged by the host, Jimmy Fallon. He was asked to defeat himself in the game on live TV.