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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Its purpose is to render an unsuspecting victim unconscious with a single sucker-punch.

"The Knockout Game" is the name given to the phenomenon by media outlets and law enforcement officials, and it's a possible motive investigated each time a victim is felled in an apparently random, one-blow assault.

Has it made its way to Staten Island?

That's what authorities are investigating aftera 58-year-old womantold authorities she was sucker-punched as she rode the S76 bus on Thursday. The woman said she was talking on her phone when someone in a group of youths that was sitting behind her punched her in the back of the head for no apparentreason andfled.

"Somebody hit me very badly in the back of my head, really badly, like the roof fell down on the back of my head," she said.

Here's a look at some notorious recent incidents in the city that have been investigated as possible "Knockout Game" attacks:

PREGNANT WOMAN PUNCHED

In August, six-months-pregnant Brooklyn resident Jannatul Ferdous was walking along the sidewalk in the borough's Bedford-Styvesant section when a man walked up anddrilled her, according to the New York Post.

She was knocked unconscious, but neither she or her child were critically hurt, the reports said. The Post reported the attacker did not know her and the incident appeared to be random.

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Disturbing footage shows some of the NYC incidents investigated as 'Knockout Game'