Glass Joe isn't the only video game character to fall from fame. "You call it a pencil, I call it a pencil. I stop writing long enough to note what he's pointing at. Hey, you aren't gonna eat that, are you?" I make enough to get by, and I get a great employee discount on beatings.
A look of genuine surprise washes over his face. I ask him what the purpose of the constant beating is, and what the factory can possibly produce. His feet rest upon a table made of cinder blocks and plywood, and his chin is covered in days-old stubble. "I swallowed my pride and took a job at the Beating Factory, getting pummeled by an automated mechanical fist ten hours a day for minimum wage", Joe says before taking a long pull from a no-name beer. Facing the possibility of living on the street, his options were limited. Upon Super Punch Out's release, Joe's popularity waned and the money stopped rolling in. When the time came for an inevitable sequel to the NES title for the SNES, however, Glass Joe was inexplicably kept out of the loop.
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With the game selling strong, Joe dined in New York's poshest restaurants and signed a lucrative endorsement deal with Calvin Klein to star in a series of racy and provocative billboard ads promoting their line of pixilated boxer-briefs. A fan favorite in the NES hit Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Joe lived the high life in the 1980's. Glass Joe (pictured top, unconscious and face down on the canvas) at the best of times. There is a much darker aspect of the industry that lies below the public's radar a seedy underbelly laden with shattered dreams and tragedy. As far as the press is concerned, this is the only side of gaming that we need concern ourselves with. When the press finds out one of his hobbies is playing video games, they narrate their report over ten year old stock footage of Doom and Mutant League Football while speaking in very concerned tones which you might mistake as genuine. A teenager somehow gets his hands on his parents' gun or makes his own in wood shop and then goes on to commit a shooting. It's a scene that plays out on the news all too often.
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