billymc plays The Adventures of Bayou Billy - Part 3 of 3

 We're finally on the last leg of this! Are you ready?

Stage 7

(continued)

Two bosses!

Shoot the big, muscle-bound guy first; he's easier to finish off. Then, follow the knife-thrower with your crosshairs and pump him full of lead when he's on the ground.

If you need to intentionally kill yourself to refill your life bar for this battle, do so. This will ensure they'll both fall before you do. Just keep in mind that you'll lose your whip and bulletproof vest from Stage 6 if you do that.

Stage 8

Finally! Godfather Gordon's estate!

If you need a gun, you'll find one. If you need a whip, get it and hold on to it for dear life. You'll need it for Gordon. Same with the bulletproof vest.

The last guy (the one in blue) calls out dogs to attack you. If you can quickly hit him with two whip lashes and a bullet, he's gone. Yeah, that was easy. If he does call the dogs, however, smack them with the whip.

Short...but difficult! But we did it!

Stage 9

It's Billy vs. Gordon!

If you have the bulletproof vest and the whip, you can smack him around with little impunity. Just get close to him so he'll keep jumping back and holding his distance, forcing him to use his gun in vain. Just don't trap him at the end of the screen, he will try to kick at you.

This is the easy part. Go further after beating Gordon and you'll meet Rocky and Rocco. Thankfully, you should still have the whip...and this little technique.

Run around the screen in a clockwise circle and turn around and whip them once or twice when you're in the upper-left and lower-right corners. They have to be in close to do any damage, and thankfully there's no time limit in the side-scrolling stages, so be patient and keep on running around the room...they'll eventually fall.

You can get three shots on both of them at the same time if you're lucky, but considering how awfully difficult this game can be, I wouldn't condone pressing my luck at this point.

7:17 - Performance Mix. - Yeah, yet another PrinceWatercress tradition.

When one falls it'll be a lot easier to get more than two or three hits on the other.

Once they're beaten...you've won! Enjoy an actual ending for a difficult game...as well as a DPCM-recorded voice saying "Bye."

If you play Mad City all the way to the end, you can choose either to stay with Annabelle and get this ending, or...break up wth her and get the bad ending! I'll show that off in the epilogue if I can find them.

But for now...play through this game with my guide if you want to...I'll be back after the epilogue with another game!

billymc plays The Adventures of Bayou Billy - Part 2 of 3

In this episode, we get shot at, chased, beat up and other stuff. What else is new?

Stage 4

(continued)

Another hazard that wasn't in the last video: puddles. They slow you down slightly, but in the racing stages you definitely need speed.

When you beat the racing stages, you get a random amount of bonus points.

Also, you may find a gas can in the road. If you find it, get it! Successfully picking it up will give you 10 seconds of extra time that you'll really need.
 

Stage 5

Why in God's name is Godfather Gordon telling me to watch out?

Also, the other racing stage. Whoo-hoo. Might wanna pause the game and rest your hands if they're worn out by this time.

The puddles are now oil slicks, and there are now smaller, red sports cars here. The sports cars are harder to hit because they are more narrow than the enemy jeeps, so be careful if you try to shoot them down. Also, the helicopters are now bomb-dropping choppers. Bomb them before they bomb you!
 

3:22 - I actually used the word "dicks" as an interjection when I saw this. Lulz were had.
 

4:17 - He got lucky there.

The red jeeps are hard to outrun; you're better off shooting them.

Stage 6

Side-scrolling time again. This time, we're in Bourbon Street.

The guys with their hands in their pockets are easy. They go down in a few jump kicks.

There are guys swinging ball-and-chains around. Criss-crossing them with jump kicks will easily defeat them. They flash red when they are about to attack, but if you go back and forth with them you won't have much of a problem.

Getting 20,000 points apparently gives you an extra life...if you can make it that far without losing all your lives, that is!

The men with the whips have some range. If you knock their weapons out of their hands, they'll run away and try to get it back. Take this opportunity to get in extra damage either with the jump kick or the stick, if you're carrying one. You can also take their weapons once they're done. Be sure not to touch any non-whip weapons once you get the whip or else you'll lose it. Now you have an advantage.

The men in the white tanktops are easy if you have the whip. Hit him three times, move back and sidestep, hit him three times, sidestep, repeat until he's dead. Some of the tanktop men are in all brown, and even fewer will carry a bulletproof vest. They'll prove useful in Stages 8 and 9.
 

Stage 7

Watch the windows for moving purple pixels, as those are enemies. They'll bust through doors to give themselves room to shoot at you. They run pretty fast and can squeeze in some shots right when you're about to hit them, so be on your toes. The motorcycle riders also shoot at you, and they're just as quick.

billymc plays The Adventures of Bayou Billy - Part 1 of 3

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.
 

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.

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.