 Victorious Boxers : Ippo 's Road to Glory was produced by Entertainment Software Publishing and was adapted from the Fighting Spirit manga series , at a time when the publishing company was focusing on its licensed comic properties rather than original titles . Development for the game was handled by New Corporation . The developers noted the capacities of the PlayStation 2 allowed them to reproduce the characters of the series accurately . The soundtrack of the game was composed by Takayuki Aihara , Shinji Hosoe and Naoki Tsuchiya . In May 2001 , British video game company Empire Interactive announced it would publish the game in Europe and North America . Since Empire 's presence in the United States market was minimal , a distribution deal was passed with Vivendi Universal for them to distribute the game , along with six other titles , in North America . 
