Frank Bruno's Boxing

Loading Screen

The C64 version loading screen shows a television featuring four channel buttons, marked BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 and ITV2, like many TVs on sale in the late 1970s in the UK. The first three were the channels available in the UK from BBC2's launch in 1968, and for much of the 1970s ITV were expected to control the fourth available TV channel when it launched, however objections to a second purely commercial channel meant that this ultimately became the public-private partnership Channel 4. An entirely different digital (and later satellite) channel called ITV2 ultimately launched in 1998.

Characters

The enemy boxers in the game all contain an element of cultural stereotyping, including several tropes that would be considered racist today, such as the conflation of China and Japan in a Japanese character with the Chinese-sounding name 'Fling Long Chop' and the character 'Tribal Trouble' being listed as from 'Africa' rather than any specific country). The issue was even raised in Prime Minister's Question time in the UK. The programmers later explained that they chose the name while at the pub next door to Elite's offices.