The Adventures of Bayou Billy
| The Adventures of Bayou Billy | |
|---|---|
| In game title screen | |
| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Platform(s) | Famicom |
| Release |  August 12, 1988United States of America 1988  January 24 1991 |
| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single player Multiplayer (simultaneous) |
The Adventures of Bayou Billy is a video game released in 1989 by Konami for the NES. It was released in Japan as Mad City in 1988.
It consists of three distinct playing styles: shooting (optionally allowing the use of a Zapper), a side-scrolling beat 'em up, and a third-person driving section. Unfortunately, all three modes (especially the side-scroller) were not well excuted, and the game remained unpopular among gamers, despite Konami's record of hit titles on the NES. During its release, Konami hyped the game, and went as far to sign a deal with Archie comics, but nothing was worked with it. Part of the game's unpopularity was due to a rather high difficulty level, making the game very hard to beat. Strangely, the Japanese release featured a much easier difficulty.
The box art for the original Japanese release featured a hero who looked a lot like Paul Hogan, star of the Crocodile Dundee movies. The American box art is redrawn, the hero looking like a long-haired hillbilly, likely to avoid a lawsuit. The plot of the hero rescuing a kidnapped girlfriend from a mobster is also similar to that of Crocodile Dundee II.
Bayou Billy in Other Media
The game also received some amount of exposure on the popular video-game themed cartoon Captain N, where Bayou Billy (modelled somewhat like Crocodile Dundee) was a semi-regular and also had two entire episodes devoted to his game-world. Adding a bit of personal history for the title-character, Captain N (Kevin) apparently never finished the game despite his best efforts.
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