History VideoGame / TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly

This game is notorious for being ridiculously hard. Although it should be noted that while it may qualify as NintendoHard, it wasn't a whole lot worse than many of the other games made for the {{NES}}. The [[RedOniBlueOni Final Boss]] however, may well be one of the hardest of the era.

* 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.

* PunnyName: The red-clad mook that appears in Stages 1 and 3 is called "Toulouse L'Attack", a pun on the famous painter Toulouse-Lautrec. GeniusBonus anyone?

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Inverted. The [[http://www.retrogamingaus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Adventures-of-Bayou-Billy-Mad-City-JP.jpg Famicom version's cover art]] has a similar composition to its later NES counterpart shown above, yet it has a more serious and darker mood. Billy's expression is pretty stern(in contrast to the goofy grin he has on the western art), Godfather Gordon is pointing his knife at Annabelle ([[StandardFemaleGrabArea instead of merely holding her arm]]) and the setting is during sunset instead of daytime.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Inverted. The [[http://www.retrogamingaus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Adventures-of-Bayou-Billy-Mad-City-JP.jpg Famicom version's cover art]] has a similar composition to its later NES counterpart shown above, yet it has a more serious and darker mood. Billy's expression is pretty stern(in contrast to the goofy grin he has on the western art), Godfather Gordon is pointing his knife at Annabelle ([[StandardFemaleGrabArea instead of merely holding her wrist]]) and the setting is during sunset instead of daytime.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Inverted. The [[http://www.retrogamingaus.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Adventures-of-Bayou-Billy-Mad-City-JP.jpg Japanese version]] has a darker cover art, with Billy West looking more like a serious action hero and Gordon pointing his knife at Annabelle like in the game's intro. The U.S. cover shown in this page is decidedly sillier by comparison.

** Partly averted if you play and complete Practice Mode which gives you more health, bullets, and fuel.

* PunnyName: According to the manual, one of the mooks is called "Toulouse L'Attack", a pun on the famous painter Toulouse-Lautrec. GeniusBonus anyone?
* RaginCajun

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[[caption-width-right:256:[-You would probably have more luck wrestling a real alligator than attempting to beat this game-].]]

-->--'''[[ThespoonyExperiment The Spoony One]]''' demonstrating the [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/01/24/adventures-of-bayou-billy-nes-review/ steep difficulty curve]]

''The Adventures of Bayou Billy'' (known as ''Mad City'' in Japan) is a side-scrolling BeatEmUp released by {{Konami}} in 1988/1989 for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem. In it, an adventurer named Billy West (no, not [[Creator/BillyWest the famous voice actor]]) sets out to rescue his girlfriend Annabelle from the clutches of the evil gangster, Godfather Gordon. There are nine stages in all, with driving and [[LightGunGame on-rails shooting]] sections thrown in for variety.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Despite coming out during an era when Nintendo of America had strict censorship rules, the game managed to get away with a character screaming "OH GOD!!!" during a cutscene (references to anything that could be seen as religious or blasphemous were generally a no-no in the pre-ESRB days, which is what lead to the famous "Oh my car!" line in the SNES version of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''). Also, Annabelle's outfit in the American release of the game allows for her to show off some noticeable cleavage in cutscenes (though it should be noted that Nintendo of America didn't censor Samas Aran's bikini in ''{{Metroid}}'' either).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Despite coming out during an era when Nintendo of America had strict censorship rules, the game managed to get away with a character screaming "OH GOD!!!" during a cutscene (references to anything that could be seen as religious or blasphemous were generally a no-no in the pre-ESRB days, which is what lead to the famous "Oh my car!" line in the SNES version of ''StreetFighterII''). Also, Annabelle's outfit in the American release of the game allows for her to show off some noticeable cleavage in cutscenes (though it should be noted that Nintendo of America didn't censor Samas Aran's bikini in ''{{Metroid}}'' either).

* ShesAManInJapan: The whipmaster enemy (A.L. Hurt) was originally a "whipwoman" named "Thousand Bird", although the sprite is the same in both versions.

** How difficult is it? ''[[CaptainNTheGameMaster Captain N]]'' couldn't beat it. (At first.)

** [[AllThereInTheManual They were plotting to take over Godfather Gordon's syndicate, and were counting on you to take him out]].

->"Can we just ask France for a refund of the Louisiana purchase?"

* BareYourMidriff: Annabelle
* {{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.

** An ending where Billy dumps Annabelle

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Annabelle

''The Adventures of Bayou Billy'' (known as ''Mad City'' in Japan) is a side-scrolling BeatEmUp released by {{Konami}} in 1988/1989 for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem. In it, an adventurer named Billy West (no, not [[BillyWest the famous voice actor]]) sets out to rescue his girlfriend Annabelle from the clutches of the evil gangster, Godfather Gordon. There are nine stages in all, with driving and [[LightGunGame on-rails shooting]] sections thrown in for variety.

-->'''[[ThespoonyExperiment The Spoony One]]''' demonstrating the [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/01/24/adventures-of-bayou-billy-nes-review/ steep difficulty curve]]

-->'''[[ThespoonyExperiment The Spoony One]] demonstrating the [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/01/24/adventures-of-bayou-billy-nes-review/ steep difficulty curve]]

* DifficultyByRegion: The NES version is harder than the Famicom version. Baddies in the beat-em-up levels take much more damage and move faster, you get fewer bullets in the shooting stages and less fuel in the driving stages.

* DifficultyByRegion: The NES version is harder than the Famicom version. Baddies in the beat-em-up levels take much more damage and moves faster, you get fewer bullets in the shooting stages and less fuel in the driving stages.