Don't get me wrong, this is actually a great game. It's just...too...damn...hard.
Anyway, the game was originally released in Japan as "Mad City." When they brought it to our shores, they bumped the difficulty up past the point of frustration. Europe didn't get the game until 1991.
Unlike the Japanese version, however, you'll hear a DPCM-encoded voice say "The Adventures of Bayou Billy" at the start of the game when you see the game's title in the game's cutscene font.
The villianous Godfather Gordon has kidapped your girlfriend, Annabelle Lane. You'll have to go through shooting stages, driving scenes and Double Dragon-style beat-em-up stages to get her back. Enjoy the "game speak" that Gordon spouts out before Billy says "Oh God..." How that got past the censors at Nintendo of America is beyond me.
Game A lets you use the Zapper in the shooting stages, while Game B lets you go the whole nine yards with the controller.
Unlike the Japanese version, however, you'll hear a DPCM-encoded voice say "The Adventures of Bayou Billy" at the start of the game when you see the game's title in the game's cutscene font.
The villianous Godfather Gordon has kidapped your girlfriend, Annabelle Lane. You'll have to go through shooting stages, driving scenes and Double Dragon-style beat-em-up stages to get her back. Enjoy the "game speak" that Gordon spouts out before Billy says "Oh God..." How that got past the censors at Nintendo of America is beyond me.
Game A lets you use the Zapper in the shooting stages, while Game B lets you go the whole nine yards with the controller.
Stage 1
Welcome to the side-scrolling stages, which make up the majority of the game. A punches, B kicks, and both at the same time does a jump kick, which you'll find yourself using almost exclusively...and even then it doesn't always help.
Some enemies have health-replenishing chickens (billymc calls them meatballs) and weapons that can help in this lopsided battle. Grab them when you can. The stick works really well, as it replaces your punch and gives you as much range as the jump kick, if not slightly more. To use your weapon, press A. Be careful not to let enemies knock weapons out of your grasp!
When you reach the first swamp area, you'll meet up with some birds that will try to fly into you. Thankfully, one hit kills them, unlike the majority of the enemies you'll meet up with throughout the game. Leap over the water when you're on the logs in the first swamp area; the crocodiles are evil and you are better off avoiding them here, anyway. The second swamp area, however, has no log platforms to traverse upon and leaves you no choice but to fight off the crocodiles. If you happened to pick up a stick from one of the enemies, it works well on them. The men in the diving suits have a gun and a bulletproof vest you can knock away from them, so be sure to grab those as soon as possible. To switch between the gun and your kick, press Select. Press B to fire the gun.
Once you make it to the third swamp area (which has the logs this time), avoid the crocodiles altogether. There. You (finally) made it past the first stage.
If you still have any bullets from your gun, you'll get bonus points for each one you have left.
Some enemies have health-replenishing chickens (billymc calls them meatballs) and weapons that can help in this lopsided battle. Grab them when you can. The stick works really well, as it replaces your punch and gives you as much range as the jump kick, if not slightly more. To use your weapon, press A. Be careful not to let enemies knock weapons out of your grasp!
When you reach the first swamp area, you'll meet up with some birds that will try to fly into you. Thankfully, one hit kills them, unlike the majority of the enemies you'll meet up with throughout the game. Leap over the water when you're on the logs in the first swamp area; the crocodiles are evil and you are better off avoiding them here, anyway. The second swamp area, however, has no log platforms to traverse upon and leaves you no choice but to fight off the crocodiles. If you happened to pick up a stick from one of the enemies, it works well on them. The men in the diving suits have a gun and a bulletproof vest you can knock away from them, so be sure to grab those as soon as possible. To switch between the gun and your kick, press Select. Press B to fire the gun.
Once you make it to the third swamp area (which has the logs this time), avoid the crocodiles altogether. There. You (finally) made it past the first stage.
If you still have any bullets from your gun, you'll get bonus points for each one you have left.
Stage 2
Here's the first of two shooting stages. Yeah, I wish there were more of them too, as they're both the most decent parts of the English version of this game. Here's the power-ups rundown:
Power-Ups
Bulletproof vests protect you from damage for 20 seconds. During that time-frame, you'll see the vest flashing in the upper-right hand corner of the screen.
First aid kits replenish your health.
Stars kill every enemy on the screen.
Bullets give you 40 rounds of ammunition.
/rundown
To collect items, shoot them. It's that simple.
There isn't really much to this area. Shoot the bad guys before they shoot you. If they throw blasting caps at you, shoot them before they cause damage!
There will be a few areas where you have to kill all the bad guys in order to move on. With practice, you can kill them all one by one as soon as they land on the ground.
Remember: if you shoot a bullet and miss, you lose that bullet. If you shoot a bullet and hit someone, you keep that bullet. If you shoot a bullet and hit two people at the same time, you keep your bullet and get an extra one! Cool, huh?
The boss here is a chopper. Focus all your attacks on it as it moves from side to side, and it'll go down before you do.
Stage 3
More side-scrolling monkey business.
If you still had a weapon you beat Stage 1 (and didn't die in Stage 2), you'll have it again here. Finally, something good about the game. I'm surprised.
The boss here is this muscle-bound freak. You can use either jumpkciks or the knife against him. If you use jump kicks, move from one end of the screen to the next, while jump kicking him when you're close enough.
You'll see Godfather Gordon's van again, and the stage ends.
Stage 4
How does a Jeep do 180 mph? That's impossible.
Anyway, you'll be using the Control Pad to move and accelerate. B and A shoots your gun at cars and throws grenades up into the air at incoming enemy planes, respectively.
Unlike Mad City, where the driving stages are all in straight lines and you could also take a few hits before dying, you'll be taking curves here and trying desperately not to take damage - it's one hit and you're dead in the English version. Gee, thanks, Konami. Hope you have an NES Advantage, because your hands will hurt like hell with the controller.
Don't forget, the driving stages have a time limit, so don't slow down too much or you'll lose a life due to Time Over. Be sure to watch out for the rocks.
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