History VideoGame / TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly

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** A secret version of the regular ending where the characters speak in the KansaiRegionalAccent.

* WhipItGood: A whip can be obtained from the bad guys in earlier stages and there is one enemy named A.L. Hurt who uses one as his primary weapon. It's also bar none the best weapon in the game if you can get your hands on it, as it has the most range out of anything you can get besides a gun, also ignores armor, which not even bullets do, and it carries through stages as long as you don't die.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Inverted. Annabelle was given sexier clothing in the NES version. In the original Famicom version she wears a long red dress. In the NES version she wears tight short shorts and a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-revealing]] t-shirt.

* BareYourMidriff: Annabelle, in the American version.

* DragonTheirFeet: Rocky and Rocko, Gordon's bodyguards, don't show up until ''after'' you've beaten him. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as [[DragonWithAnAgenda they were plotting to take over Godfather Gordon's crime syndicate]], [[AllThereInTheManual and were using you to take him out]].

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Rocky and Rocko were merely Gordon's bodyguards in the NES game. In Archie's comic book adaptation, they were his son and stepson respectively.

Was one of the more obscure games to feature on ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster''.

* KnifeNut: The Cajun Cutthroat, the punk enemy in later stages.
** Also Lightning Rod, one of the bosses in stage 7--He ''throws'' them.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Inverted. Annabelle was given sexier clothing in the NES version. In the original Famicom version she wears a long red dress. In the NES version she wears [[WhoWearsShortShorts tight short shorts]] and a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-revealing]] t-shirt.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Annabelle does, if you're playing the American version.

* OneHitPointWonder: Your jeep in the driving sections. [[JustifiedTrope Because you're traveling at high speeds]], if it slams into anything - be it a car, a rock, a sign post or a grenade - it'll explode and you'll lose a life.

** A secret version of the regular ending where the characters speak in the Kansai dialect.

-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment The Spoony One]]''' demonstrating the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDfdCJQs3rI steep difficulty curve]]

* BareYourMidriff: Annabelle, in the American version.

* {{Expy}}: Bayou Billy is essentially an American version of ''Film/CrocodileDundee''. In the Japanese cover art, he looks almost exactly like Paul Hogan, which is probably why a different artwork was used for the American release.

* NGOSuperpower: Gordon is a local gangster yet has literally hundreds of goons in his employ, including not only the standard thugs with pistols, bats, and knives that you encounter in the beat-em-up sections, but also a squad of scuba commandos who ambush Billy in the swamps, platoons of paramilitary operatives with assault rifles and rocket launchers, a fleet of light attack helicopters, and dozens of jeeps and prop planes manned by the aforementioned paramilitaries that patrol the streets of Louisiana dropping bombs on Billy.