A series of licensed games for the NES, based on the mascot characters of the surfboard manufacturer Town & Country Surf Designs, known as "Da Boys". The first game was a sports minigame contest, while the sequel, Thrilla's Surfari was a full-fledged adventure title starring Thrilla Gorilla.
T&C Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage
Town and Country Surf Designs: Wood and Water Rage (Shortened to T&C Surf Designs) is a 1988 licensed sports game by LJN Toys and Atlus for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It's a Minigame Game with multiple sporting events where you play as each of the mascots.
The game is divided up into three sporting events: Street Skate Session, Big Wave Encounter, and Wood and Water Rage. The Street Skate Session features Joe Cool or Tiki Man riding a skateboard across an obstacle course as they pull off tricks and dodge obstacles and pitfall hazards. The player can speed up or slow down their speed with the D-Pad. The Big Wave Encounter is a surfing game where the player control Cool Cat or Thrilla Gorilla as the player has to survive a wave whilst avoiding obstacles and avoiding going too deep or too out of the wave. Finally, Wood and Water Rage is a mix of the two events with the four playable characters paired up and each playing their respective sports. The game has an alternating 2-player mode.
- Bottomless Pits: In the Street Skate Session, there are holes in the street that the player has to avoid falling into.
- Life Meter: The characters have a set of "lives" for each event, and loses one or more depending on the hazard. With a Game Over when you run out of lives.
- Minigame Game: There are just two events total in the game, and the third "event" is just a mix of the two.
- Scoring Points: The "mission" of each event is to rack up as many points as possible.
T&C Surf Designs 2: Thrilla's Surfari
The sequel game released in 1992 by Acclaim and Sculptured Software, also for the NES. Its a full-fledge adventure title this time involving Thrilla Gorilla in a solo affair. His girlfriend Barbi Bikini has been kidnapped by the Witch Doctor Wazula to be used as a sacrifice for immortality, and Thrilla has to get through several dangerous adventures in Africa to rescue her.
- Big Bad: The Witch Doctor Wazula. He kidnapped Thrilla's girlfriend to sacrifice her to his Idol and achieve Immortality.
- Damsel in Distress: Thrilla's girlfriend Barbi Bikini.
- Human Sacrifice: Wazula aims to sacrifice Barbi Bikini to his God to achieve immortality.
- Save the Princess: The main mission. Thrilla's girlfriend Barbi Bikini has been kidnapped and has to be rescued.
- Sequel Goes Foreign: Compared to the first game which took place in Hawaii, Thrilla's Surfari takes place in Africa.
- Witch Doctor: Wazula, the Big Bad who kidnapped Barbie Bikini.
