Everyone talks about Tyson and Macho Man, but Sandman was the toughest to learn. It took me about a week to get him down and finally beat him. He should have been AFTER Macho.
Dom LS1 I’m not saying he’s hard. He is very easy and I can beat him in the first round nearly every time. I was just saying that macho man is even easier to me.
Hell yeah! Tougher than Tyson and Macho Man! First time I got to him I'm like, "I'm dead!" Imagine being about ten years old and seeing that dude. Took me over a week to master him.
Mr. Sandman is very hard to beat,I can definitely beat him,but to beat him in the first round without getting touched by his punches especially his deadly uppercut is truly impressive
+blind poet38 Another way for people to tell if he will throw the uppercuts is when he blocks. After the initial rolling punches he will dodge ever high punch, the moment he blocks you know he is going to use the special punches.
They always got/get me too. The best I can do against Mr. Sandman is knock him down twice. He's as far as I can get in this game but it's still my favorite game of all time.
The hardest fighter in the game to me, very hard to dodge his 3 uppercuts u never knew when they would come. I hated facing him, but I beat this game 2 times, such memories.
What makes this game the hardest Punch-Out IMO is how brutal the circuits system is. Having this three-strikes-and-out system on top of the increasing number of opponents in each circuit can make the player really on edge, especially if they've just gotten to harder fights like these and have no idea what to expect. You could literally be on your last little shred of health, just waiting for the round to end so Doc can rub you all over, while in just a few more punches you'll have knocked down Sandman the third time in the round. Every single bit of energy and focus is put all into just dodging the fuck out of all his attacks and punching him enough and with the right timing, otherwise that's it, you'll have to start on Honda's rematch all over again. That dreamland express feels just around the corner... and all you can do is pray. Just watching this video gets me tense man, this fight is one of the best bits of game design and one of the best NES bosses I've ever seen. Having Macho Man right after him puts so much pressure on the championship fight, since if you lose enough times, you gotta go back and fight Sandman all over again. With Mike Tyson, yes he's hard, but at least if you lose to him you don't have to do 4 other fights in order to get back to him, which puts a lot less pressure on the fight, at least for me.
***** What emulator are you using? I'm playing on Jnes 1.1 with an Xbox360 controller and am able to dodge them. It took me awhile but it seems like dodging left left left seems to be the best way.
He just destroyed Sandman. Finally got me a NES, again. I actually held on to my Tyson's Punch Out cause I loved it so much, as a kid. I still rem when my mother bought it for me in 1988. To a min to get the rust off, but it all came rushing back. Totally forgot about the Sandman strategy. I rem how to beat him within a min of watching this clip. Thx for posting.
I always thought mr sandman was harder than super macho man, and I always wondered how he managed to always be on top of sandman. And then punch out for the wii happened.
He does 11 jabs to be exact. Most of them are easy to time as you start to avoid after 3 bounces, but his 6th and 11th jabs are a little tougher to time.
I can usually beat Sandman, but I can only seem to get the timing down on his special 1/3 times. I usually get hit by the first one and then dodge the next two. Is there a trick to knowing when he's gonna throw it? I usually wait til he stops moving his feet and hopefully react in time, but that seems to be a shite method based on how little I dodge the 1st one.
His gloves completely touch just before he swings. So, I learned from another video. I haven't fought him yet. I just beat Adam Sandler (Don F) for the second time. I went till the end of the 3rd, and I got the win.
Excellent work! It was easier than I thought. I will have to ko Tyson and Sandman on the first round! I never did because I knew lots of tricks, but not the waiting trick to make them lose more energy! Thanks a lot HexidecimalBeefTrogg!!! ;) I rated it to the top!!!
I don't get it. In other playthroughs during the dreamland express, he makes a brief pause and then does it. But here there is NO pause. Not even a frame. He just does it. Is it the video itself or is there something I'm missing?
It gives him the chance for him to throw a upper cut left and than doge than do at goer punch it delay mr sandman punch by a second I think it could be he is showing off
Night-night! Also, is it just me, or is the move pattern of Mr. Sandman in the original Punch-Out!!, more like Bald Bull in the Wii version than himself?
Normally, Mr. Sandman flashes white and pauses for a split second before starting his rush. All I can guess is that the recording software or the compression made it so that this very brief tell isn't visible in the video.
@theboombody You can get stars off him in the third round if you delay the second or third stomach punch like I do in the video. It doesn't work for the first two rounds and most people usually beat him or get beaten by him by round 2.
There used to be a thing with that old man in the stands that he would shout and stand up and if you punched while he was doing that it would be an instant TKO
I noticed something really weird. At 0:18 the smaller boxer's clothing changed from white to green. What's up with that? There's nothing wrong with that though; I like the color green.
Everyone talks about super macho man and Mike Tyson along with soda Popinski but I had a challenge with the Sandman. The Sandman was arguably the second toughest fighter next to Tyson it took me a couple of days to take him down Same strategy with Tyson you gotta do a dodge but you can’t do it long do you have to do a quick Dodge and wait for him to throw those upper cuts
This game got so much easier once I learned you can recover from dodging quicker if you direction pad back the opposite way of your dodge! Still was a tough one to beat
King Hippo is the only one you cannot get stars on. On this strategy, see how I delay the punches to take more damage? If you delay hits like that on the third round, you can get stars from Mr. Sandman that way.
Wow! Only way I've seen it done is having half life to start and getting knocked down for a second dreamland express. That delayed belly punch must do extra damage, nice.
Yeah, I am only throwing two punches. I throw a punch and delay just a bit before I throw in the second punch to give Mr. Sandman a little more damage for the second punch.
I don't know about the NES one, but for the Wii, if you punch him when he flashes red during that pause punch with his right hand (your left), you get a star.
amazing game, and the new for wii is just as good as the first one !, one of my fav games of all times thank you next level for doing something for the fans, and not the casual crowd
yeah doing that and making him punch puts an end to all the timing needed for this fight im definalty going to try this method he knocks me out steady. i wonder why the hesitation during punches too and why is this guys record 99-00 wiht 99 ko's ?
nice strategy. i am going to try this this is where i am stuck. after you throw the body, i see that you threw another quick to make him throw. that is effective because he usually hesitates
@HexidecimalBeefTrogg I was wondering, because you fight him the exact way I do, and just use up hearts by missing punches on purpose. I was hoping there'd be a quicker way, like I discovered with Soda Popinski by watching another youtube video. I imagine it would be pretty tough dragging the fight out to the third round. Unless your really, really good at this game, you want to put this fellow away fast.
I got so close to beating him in the second round but as soon i was about to hit the last punch for the third knockdown the bell rung and i got knocked tf out 😭
I beat him after 2 days using a different method. Basically, I duck almost all the time, so I can block his normal uppercuts even in case of bad timing. To dodge his Razor Uppercut, duck twice as fast as possible for the first two uppercuts and then dodge left/right for the last one (the difficulty lies in ducking for the first uppercut and the rest is easy). Keep his HP as low as possible in the first round and try to dodge his Razor Uppercut twice in the second round to get a TKO.
To syxtinine: I know and I can't wait. I think Mr. Sandman is a close second behind Mike Tyson in difficulty for me. I've never had trouble with Super Macho Man, but Tyson with his one hit knockdown and Sandman with his tricky timing are the definition of HARD!
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0:08 The very second you see him spam those uppercuts you just instantly tell yourself “This guy’s gonna fuck me up.”
😂😂😂😂
Lmao! 💪😡 me👉😵😴
💪💪💪💪
Mac: welp i am dead
Everyone talks about Tyson and Macho Man, but Sandman was the toughest to learn. It took me about a week to get him down and finally beat him. He should have been AFTER Macho.
Ikr
I know the pain
For me it was sandman and king hippo Mr. Sandman one of my favorites also had the best intro
Honestly, macho man to me is extremely easy. I have a tougher time with bald bull.
Dom LS1 I’m not saying he’s hard. He is very easy and I can beat him in the first round nearly every time. I was just saying that macho man is even easier to me.
I considered myself an old vet of Punch-out and far beyond learning new tricks of the trade, but I definitely learned something from this guy.
This guy scared the crap out of me when I first saw him do that little demo of uppercuts after the bell! 0:07
He's the very embodiment of intimidation.
His psychotic eyes will SCARE me for life
Hell yeah! Tougher than Tyson and Macho Man! First time I got to him I'm like, "I'm dead!" Imagine being about ten years old and seeing that dude. Took me over a week to master him.
Back when you were a kid in 1987
Yeah I’m 13 years old and he’s still scary also bald Bull was pretty scary as well
Mr. Sandman is very hard to beat,I can definitely beat him,but to beat him in the first round without getting touched by his punches especially his deadly uppercut is truly impressive
Mr.Sandman: Welcome to Dreamland baby!!!
Mac: *Knocks Sandman out in round 1*
He put Mr. Sandman to sleep!! 💤💤💤
that was Perfect. he's the only one other then Tyson I couldn't beat in the 1st round
sportstalk28 same
Those delayed punches are one of the few reasons why I cant beat him DX
+Quilava just watch his head. The moment his head stops moving he will throw a punch..
+blind poet38 Another way for people to tell if he will throw the uppercuts is when he blocks. After the initial rolling punches he will dodge ever high punch, the moment he blocks you know he is going to use the special punches.
Quilava Hit Him With 2 Hands
delayed punches or waiting for a punch can't react fast enough if I could I would probably be able to beat this game!
They always got/get me too. The best I can do against Mr. Sandman is knock him down twice. He's as far as I can get in this game but it's still my favorite game of all time.
How the F*CK am i supposed to dodge those uppercuts.
+SnappyK9 watch his head. The moment his head stops moving he will throw the dreamland express.
I still cant dodge them uppercuts!! I'm like 0-103 against this dude!! I beat everyone else!
Ikr
I can't react fast enough
Don't feel bad. I could never do it. Mr. Sandman was my Mike Tyson lol. The last guy in the game I could get to.
pretty darn good. he gets me almost every time with his surprise punch
The hardest fighter in the game to me, very hard to dodge his 3 uppercuts u never knew when they would come. I hated facing him, but I beat this game 2 times, such memories.
What makes this game the hardest Punch-Out IMO is how brutal the circuits system is. Having this three-strikes-and-out system on top of the increasing number of opponents in each circuit can make the player really on edge, especially if they've just gotten to harder fights like these and have no idea what to expect. You could literally be on your last little shred of health, just waiting for the round to end so Doc can rub you all over, while in just a few more punches you'll have knocked down Sandman the third time in the round. Every single bit of energy and focus is put all into just dodging the fuck out of all his attacks and punching him enough and with the right timing, otherwise that's it, you'll have to start on Honda's rematch all over again. That dreamland express feels just around the corner... and all you can do is pray. Just watching this video gets me tense man, this fight is one of the best bits of game design and one of the best NES bosses I've ever seen. Having Macho Man right after him puts so much pressure on the championship fight, since if you lose enough times, you gotta go back and fight Sandman all over again. With Mike Tyson, yes he's hard, but at least if you lose to him you don't have to do 4 other fights in order to get back to him, which puts a lot less pressure on the fight, at least for me.
@Rice696ratio then
Ugh, those darn uppercuts ALWAYS get me!!! 😡
***** What emulator are you using? I'm playing on Jnes 1.1 with an Xbox360 controller and am able to dodge them. It took me awhile but it seems like dodging left left left seems to be the best way.
+Kevin Synan I use the old school NES. Remember, watch Sandman's head. The moment his head stops moving, he will throw the uppercuts.
Chris Nata I'm playing this on Wii U VC
Input lag makes this even harder
Ragnar Ahlman tell me about it
Joe Frazier was a legend. RIP
He just destroyed Sandman. Finally got me a NES, again. I actually held on to my Tyson's Punch Out cause I loved it so much, as a kid. I still rem when my mother bought it for me in 1988. To a min to get the rust off, but it all came rushing back. Totally forgot about the Sandman strategy. I rem how to beat him within a min of watching this clip. Thx for posting.
Amazing how it comes back isn’t it
OMG BLESS YOUR SOUL. I only beat him in the 3rd round but this video helped a lot!!! Thank you!
I always thought mr sandman was harder than super macho man, and I always wondered how he managed to always be on top of sandman. And then punch out for the wii happened.
He does 11 jabs to be exact. Most of them are easy to time as you start to avoid after 3 bounces, but his 6th and 11th jabs are a little tougher to time.
Beat him in round one second attempt after watching this. Thanks dude
Have to dodge to the left when he start throwing those uppercuts once I found that out no issues
Could you imagine the amount of whoop-ass you gotta take to pull that off? Sandman was no joke.
I can usually beat Sandman, but I can only seem to get the timing down on his special 1/3 times. I usually get hit by the first one and then dodge the next two. Is there a trick to knowing when he's gonna throw it? I usually wait til he stops moving his feet and hopefully react in time, but that seems to be a shite method based on how little I dodge the 1st one.
Ngl, I just spam dodge and hope for the best :/
His gloves completely touch just before he swings. So, I learned from another video. I haven't fought him yet. I just beat Adam Sandler (Don F) for the second time. I went till the end of the 3rd, and I got the win.
Sandman was a fucking animal. Tough rhythm. This game was so far behind its time. Great memories.
This was amazing and deserves to have more views!!
I can't beat him on the nes classic his uppercut are to fast
Input lag, man.
Bictor Briseno It is possible to beat Mr. Sandman on the NES classic, with a bit of practice I managed to beat him on round 2
You never will with that lag. In Punchout, even a tenth of a second will f**k you up. Not your fault.
Tony Mirabella
in this video i found he does it with an nes classic
th-cam.com/video/MQlSrWgdQtU/w-d-xo.html
Make sure your tv is in 'game mode' because otherwise there will be a lot of input lag.
Excellent work! It was easier than I thought. I will have to ko Tyson and Sandman on the first round! I never did because I knew lots of tricks, but not the waiting trick to make them lose more energy! Thanks a lot HexidecimalBeefTrogg!!! ;) I rated it to the top!!!
how do you get 99ko like how
If you get a game over and continue from the automatic password, the game remembers all your wins and losses.
but if u just enter a password in the first place that works too
Masterful
I don't get it. In other playthroughs during the dreamland express, he makes a brief pause and then does it. But here there is NO pause. Not even a frame. He just does it. Is it the video itself or is there something I'm missing?
Why the delay with the body punches?
It gives him the chance for him to throw a upper cut left and than doge than do at goer punch it delay mr sandman punch by a second I think it could be he is showing off
Finally! Someone else who uses the delayed hook strategy.
best playing ive ever seen!
nice job. that SOB always stopped me dead in my tracks.
Sob?
Some of his moves remind me of bald bull's moves
They re-used the body types for several of the characters. So there should be some similarities.
@@TheJollyMisanthrope like don looks like Joe
Great tiger and von kaiser both give stars in there uppercuts
Also popinski and macho are the same, as well as honda and tyson / mr dream
They are palette swaps
Dreamland!!!
Night-night!
Also, is it just me, or is the move pattern of Mr. Sandman in the original Punch-Out!!, more like Bald Bull in the Wii version than himself?
Normally, Mr. Sandman flashes white and pauses for a split second before starting his rush. All I can guess is that the recording software or the compression made it so that this very brief tell isn't visible in the video.
Anybody feel like when you get the final countdown on Sandman is one of the most epic moments in your gaming history?
Sandman was scary playing with when I was a child!
I didn’t even realize this was the guy who made phreds cool punch out
@theboombody You can get stars off him in the third round if you delay the second or third stomach punch like I do in the video. It doesn't work for the first two rounds and most people usually beat him or get beaten by him by round 2.
There used to be a thing with that old man in the stands that he would shout and stand up and if you punched while he was doing that it would be an instant TKO
What’s the code to get to him?
I knocked him out in round 1 for the first time last week. It was 2:57 of round 1.
Mr. Sandman was that guy also had one of the best intros
Nice! Just what I was lookin for, thanks!😉👍
I noticed something really weird. At 0:18 the smaller boxer's clothing changed from white to green. What's up with that? There's nothing wrong with that though; I like the color green.
Everyone talks about super macho man and Mike Tyson along with soda Popinski but I had a challenge with the Sandman. The Sandman was arguably the second toughest fighter next to Tyson it took me a couple of days to take him down
Same strategy with Tyson you gotta do a dodge but you can’t do it long do you have to do a quick Dodge and wait for him to throw those upper cuts
This game got so much easier once I learned you can recover from dodging quicker if you direction pad back the opposite way of your dodge! Still was a tough one to beat
Wow! you made that look easy. Bravo!!
Thanks dude!I was trying to do it the hard way.hope tysons next like the old days
King Hippo is the only one you cannot get stars on. On this strategy, see how I delay the punches to take more damage? If you delay hits like that on the third round, you can get stars from Mr. Sandman that way.
Wow! Only way I've seen it done is having half life to start and getting knocked down for a second dreamland express. That delayed belly punch must do extra damage, nice.
flawless!
oh, nvm i got confused(havent played this in a while) i thought you were doing that pattern when you were throwing the late punches at :50 to 1:10.
Is it just me or is Mr. Sandman's body the same as Baldbull's but with a different head?
Yeah, I am only throwing two punches. I throw a punch and delay just a bit before I throw in the second punch to give Mr. Sandman a little more damage for the second punch.
1:13
HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO READ THAT?
Tyson, Sandman & Bald Bull 2 are ridiculous.
forgot to add to that reply, nice vid and good stragity. i'll give that one a shot next time i play
Notice that in the introduction of the fight when Mr Sandman show's you his upercut's he dose four. But when he fight's you he only dose three.
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream.
Very Nice vid!! Just got to Mr. Sandman today hopefully i can use ure tacs to beat him!!
I don't know about the NES one, but for the Wii, if you punch him when he flashes red during that pause punch with his right hand (your left), you get a star.
amazing game, and the new for wii is just as good as the first one !, one of my fav games of all times
thank you next level for doing something for the fans, and not the casual crowd
actually its a technique called the delayed punch it does more damage than a regular punch at the end of your combo.
Incredible... o_O
Excellent video, is there any reason you are delaying the 3rd body punch?
Does anyone use quick doges or just normal ones when he does his dreamland express
He did at 1:36 (game time, not TH-cam video time). Did you watch the whole video?
@hentipleasemalcolm:Although making mac transparent would really suck anyway. I prefer it like this.
Ngl, i feel like Mr Sandman is way more threatening than Macho Man, makes sense why they made him the champion in the wii version
@rodneystiffington
What strategy?
I got here from TF2wiki.
same here
jamisunne How?
i play tf2 but HOW
i got to sandman. after a minute. i shed bloody tears
At least he didn't tell you that the secret last character was Donkey Kong
Great video
Well done!!
Why pausing after countering his hooks? Wouldn't it be faster if you hit him with all 3 punches?
you gotta love those 8-bit sounds
I took only 1 day to learn how to beat this guy.
Nice fight. Not sure I can do that lol. He trips me up everytime haha
I wish you could see the fighters fighting other fighters
yeah doing that and making him punch puts an end to all the timing needed for this fight im definalty going to try this method he knocks me out steady. i wonder why the hesitation during punches too and why is this guys record 99-00 wiht 99 ko's ?
Did he make her reflection like peaches on cream?
That dude gave me such pains. It was a great night when I beat him finally. Much tougher than Bald Bull.
Night Night *sleeping forever* Oh oh.
Dude had 99 wins. Why did Sandman even show up?
How do you get him to do the special move after falling down once in round 1?
nice strategy. i am going to try this this is where i am stuck. after you throw the body, i see that you threw another quick to make him throw. that is effective because he usually hesitates
thanks for posting this video , you have no idea!!!
A dream match setup would be Mr Sandman versus Von Kaiser. Os dang that would draw down the house
@HexidecimalBeefTrogg I was wondering, because you fight him the exact way I do, and just use up hearts by missing punches on purpose. I was hoping there'd be a quicker way, like I discovered with Soda Popinski by watching another youtube video.
I imagine it would be pretty tough dragging the fight out to the third round. Unless your really, really good at this game, you want to put this fellow away fast.
Why do people do the little pause when they're punching him after a hook? Is that supposed to be more powerful or something?
OldSchoolBoi yes
I got so close to beating him in the second round but as soon i was about to hit the last punch for the third knockdown the bell rung and i got knocked tf out 😭
I beat him after 2 days using a different method. Basically, I duck almost all the time, so I can block his normal uppercuts even in case of bad timing. To dodge his Razor Uppercut, duck twice as fast as possible for the first two uppercuts and then dodge left/right for the last one (the difficulty lies in ducking for the first uppercut and the rest is easy). Keep his HP as low as possible in the first round and try to dodge his Razor Uppercut twice in the second round to get a TKO.
why do you have to do delayed punches???
To syxtinine: I know and I can't wait.
I think Mr. Sandman is a close second behind Mike Tyson in difficulty for me. I've never had trouble with Super Macho Man, but Tyson with his one hit knockdown and Sandman with his tricky timing are the definition of HARD!
how the heck does hitting the sandman slowly in the stomach make this a strategy? Guess I never would of thought of that.
Notice how Sandman is wearing Bald Bulls trunks?!
And Soda Pop is a different color of Macho Man?