Amidst a flurry of press announcements from Nintendo came official news of a Punch-Out!! remake for the Wii.

The seminal “boxing” series, which hooked countless gamers for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, will get the motion-control treatment some time next year, according to 1UP.

A brief trailer is available at GameVideos. Judging from the action, it seems that original opponents Glass Joe, Von Kaiser and King Hippo are all set to get back in the ring.

For the unfamiliar youngsters, Punch-Out!! follows the meteoric career of Little Mac, an appropriately tiny boxer who often had to face fighters twice his size. There’s very little in this game that resembles actual boxing. Rather, Punch-Out!! puts the emphasis on timed dodges followed by a series of counter-blows. For a time, the Nintendo game featured Mike Tyson, but was later reissued with the generic “Mr. Dream” as the game’s top fighter. We don’t expect Kid Dynamite to return on the Wii.

A follow-up to the classic game was released for Super Nintendo, but it didn’t nearly match the critical acclaim or popularity of the original. The series hasn’t been touched since then.

No journalist has yet to play the game, but hopefully more details will emerge soon. To hold themselves over, Wii owners can at least grab the original game — sans-Tyson — through Virtual Console.