I own the Famicom game, Mad City, not knowing it was so much easier and I was shocked when I beat it, thinking “wow, this is what everyone is so worked up about?” A few days ago I actually picked up Bayou Billy for my nes… WOW what a difference that made👀
Oh come on, don't tell me you don't enjoy taking double the damage from enemy hits and the worsened driving controls on the jeep segments? All so that you might want to re-rent it from Blockbuster over and over again? 😜 But in all seriousness, this and so many other games having strange changes compared to the original Japanese release is always something that will be amusing to think about.
FANTASTIC soundtrack. Like Snake's Revenge, Tsutomu Ogura's layered, almost symphonic sounding music is hypnotic. The first stage track in particular is just incredible. The graphics are equally awesome. But, that difficulty. Yeah. Absolutely kills the entire thing.
I have this game and I spent two solid weeks playing nothing but it. I made it my mission to beat it and by golly, I did it! One of hte most white-knuckle gaming experiences I've ever had.
Bayou Billy is like that kid you meet on the playground who initially looks cool, and seems to like you, but quickly shows his true nature as a bully by kicking you repeatedly in the privates, and laughing at you for thinking you were cool enough to hang with them…Saying this, I realize that I may have some deep psychological scars related to this game…
God I miss when games could be like this. A vaguely referenced plot that seems like it could be really intricate but the game refuses to tell us what's going on. In my head canon Gordon Ramsay is the villain and the player character is Crocodile Dundee. A bunch of game modes back to back, one mintue you're playing a side scrolling beat em up (on a beach?) where when you hit enemies they poop out a knife or a thanksgiving turkey then next thing you know you're in a stripped down spy hunter clone (in the farm fields of Kansas?) apparently going 180mph in the jurrasic park jeep, then you're using the light gun in an on rails shooter in the jungle against dudes with bazookas. I would have killed to have this game as a kid with my nes.
Konami games always had that wow factor, didn't they? If you like this, you should also check out The Lone Ranger and Laser Invasion. They do the same genre mix-up trick, and they're both fantastic.
They could've left those driving stages as they were on Mad City. That could've spared the painful memories of a sore left thumb. Should've had the NES advantage back then.
Your original Bayou Billy play-through is what made me a fan of your channel. I thought, if this guy is this good at this game he is the real deal. Happy New Year Everyone!
Man! This is one of the best games on the NES, I remember playing it in the 90s, the soundtrack here is the coolest of all 8/16 bit titles, it’s a pity there are no SNES and Mega Drive ports, or am I missing something? Thanks for the nostalgia, man!
Finished this one just a year ago in about four tries. Call it the magic of Christmas if you will...its clunkiness didn't stop me liking it. For me it was all about the driving stages making or breaking it, the rest can indeed be tamed. Have a good New Year's Eve everybody.
I actually had no idea that this version was so much harder. I wound up playing the Famicom version, and not only was it easier, but you could actually keep the weapons you found in the practice mode over into the real game. Starting the game with a Whip made most enemies a cakewalk, let me tell you. XD
This game sure was fun, and tough one to master. Interesting how the Japanese version "Mad City" is significantly easier compared to the Western release. With this one, get used to seeing the Game Over screen many times until you get good at it.
Castlevania 3 is all knowing the game, that can beat deathless east, even if you know what you’re doing this one’s a struggle and you’ll barely scrape by in parts.
aah bayou billy... souvenirs/remember... Don t forget that you can control the fire with pad B ...love this game... many thanks for posting this at the edge of 2024 😃
I love how with the vest, bullets just bounce off you like they were corks, but get punched or kicked and the vest flies off your body (and you take damage from the hit!) And despite all the changes from Mad City, they kept the driving stage "KMH" speed value, so your Jeep can do 180mph--long before the Trackhawk existed!! EDIT.. Nope, having just looked, Mad City has the Jeep doing 250kmh.
I think the reason there are games that get a huge difficulty raise when ported from Japan to US was in response to game rental stores in the US. They didn't want anyone beating the game over the weekend on a rental, so they jacked up the difficulty.
Are you a bad enough dude to save Anabelle? Those stories are all the same and they are so cheesy, but I remember wanting very much to rescue the women in those games at my miniature self time.
Played this game as a kid. One of the most HARDIEST GAMES I’VE EVER PLAYED. Had to use Game Genie to beat it. The Japenese one is a better game than the USA version of it. Still remember using the Zapper on the 3D stages & sometimes used the regular controller too. It’s still a good game regardless of the Bull****.
@@AlexNona80 That is your opinion dude. I do have a bad temper so I used it to enjoy the game. There were times that I didn’t use it on all the games I’ve played in the past since there were no codes for it. Also dude, you’re the 1st person to argue with me using a cheat device for past games. Nobody has ever replied to say what you said in the past when I’ve commented games that are posted on TH-cam.
@@AlexNona80 I don’t think I was talking about Naruto. I know what it is but never watched it. Also I had no idea about your gender. The name is mysterious due to the fact that are Males that I’ve seen are named that. Also I had no idea if your Profile pic is fake or not. If I somehow offended you, I apologize for that.
I had this game as a kid, and you basically had to do the training stages to have a chance at getting through the thing the first few times. The "Street Fighting" stages are the most annoying even after you're good enough to get through the other stuff, even if you're careful with your jump kicks until you pick up a weapon, you're liable to get kicked around a dangerous amount because of how long it takes to beat everyone up. And those gators in the early stages were the height of tedium, if you get unlucky they could take AGES to surface in the right spots.
I played this game a lot as a kid. The characters were interesting, music was great, enemies were cool, setting was neat. I got pretty far but man I could never beat this one. Always wanted to see the ending though!
Scary story, I grew up with this game on the NES.. Through sheer determination, I beat it. 10 years on, hearing "Captain N" had failed, I thought "Wait, what? Thought he was the game master! I were still in grade school when I beat that!" Then again, The Adventures of Bayou Billy wasn't among Captain N's first games on the NES.....
I think because of watching Captain N before owning an NES I expected Bayou Billy to be a much more important part of the overall NES experience than it actually was. Also it seems like the Captain N sound effects were like 50% from this game, even for Mega Man. Also Bayou Billy as represented on the show was like 75% Pitfall! 25% actual Bayou Billy
This game gets hated on but I dig it. I like the three different game modes in one. Street fighting driving and shooting all-in-one. Kind of keeps it fresh as you play through it. Another classic by Konami
Ultimately, I think the worst part of the game is that they made the driving stages have one-hit deaths. It sucks all the fun out of them and just makes them a chore to get through. Especially the highway! I don't mind the difficulty of the street-fighting stages because you can usually get through it if you manage to keep a weapon. And the zapper/controller aim stages are fine, you just have to be on your toes and can't take a break with the bosses.
The game play and music of this reminds me of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. Which makes sense since it was released the same year by the same company
Difficulty in US in a nutshell. Konami with Mad City/Bayou Billy: Too Easy. Let's make it hard as hell. Nintendo of America with SMB: The Lost Levels: Too Hard. Let's skip it and localize Doki Doki Panic as SMB2
This game bring back both good and bad memories, the frustrating driving stages bring back the bad, but the game wasn't almost impossible battletoads hard😂
I don't know how I did it but I beat this once when I was a kid and it took me playing it daily for MONTHS to learn how the enemies would attack ya and the best way to go about it. No joke it's a hard one.
Is it bad game design if the game plays so unique? The on foot sections of this game do not feel good at all in a pick up and play scenario. It has such a weird design of how you need to do and avoid damage.
I think the most frustrating thing about fighting is that you don't stun the enemies when you hit them, so they can often hit you right back unless you jump kick so that you land just outside their attack range.
An absolute classic. Also I disagree with the "it's too hard to be fun". To me the main difficulty came from the damned driving stage, but once you got past that you were golden.
99% of us were able to beat the US version using save states after emulators. Can you blame us, though? This was brutally hard! Thankfully, JP version isn't that bad!
@@Phantom.Gaming64 Streets of Rage 3 also followed its example... Although it was to prevent people from beating the game easily over the weekend through rentals, I'm not sure about the reason behind Bayou Billy's insane difficulty. Bare Knuckles 3 all the way, baby!
Sure this game is crazily hard, i did completed once in the nes emulator (Not actual nes console). It's recommeded to do practice first. The driving stage is the hardest part due the rough turns. However, it's possible to dodge enemy vehicles and enemy aircrafts without destroying them, they're not mandatory but recommeded to take them out if the going gets too dangerous.
Those driving parts can end your game so damn fast, they should have given you a life bar like the famicom game, it’s not like the rest of the game is easy I’ve only ever beaten it with the whip.
You had to be patient fighting the enemies. This wasnt really a button masher. You had to hit and move and slow play your way. I think i only made it to the 3rd or 4th level....tough game but i suppose its beatable if you spend time at it.
The original Famicom version was excellent, but Bayou Billy is too hard to be much fun. It looks and sounds great, though!
This game is frustration incarnate lol
I own the Famicom game, Mad City, not knowing it was so much easier and I was shocked when I beat it, thinking “wow, this is what everyone is so worked up about?” A few days ago I actually picked up Bayou Billy for my nes… WOW what a difference that
made👀
You really whipped em good
Ever wonder if there's a ROM hack that fuses Mad City's content and challenge with Bayou Billy's enhanced presentation?
Oh come on, don't tell me you don't enjoy taking double the damage from enemy hits and the worsened driving controls on the jeep segments? All so that you might want to re-rent it from Blockbuster over and over again? 😜
But in all seriousness, this and so many other games having strange changes compared to the original Japanese release is always something that will be amusing to think about.
God, I love this bongo track so much. The NES had the best bongo track ever of all the 8-bit and 16-bit consoles.
I love this game. So diverse for an nes game. plus the box art is amazing.
I bought it because it looked cool
Really captures those pulp dime novel cover art with a hint of 50's Adventure movie poster.
I got suckered into so many bad games because the box art looked cool, especially during the atari era
FANTASTIC soundtrack. Like Snake's Revenge, Tsutomu Ogura's layered, almost symphonic sounding music is hypnotic. The first stage track in particular is just incredible. The graphics are equally awesome. But, that difficulty. Yeah. Absolutely kills the entire thing.
Konami loved to make the hardest NES games, Contra, the original TMNT. That's why we have the code.
The first stage music is great. The background chords always reminded me of the guitars in that INXS song Need You Tonight.
@@helicopterjets contra? hardest? lol
@@AlexNona80 only people who play it religiously don't think it's hard
@@helicopterjets guilty
The enemies in full scuba gear in knee deep water always make me laugh.
Haha right? And how many ten foot gators live in that tiny ass pond?
This is 100% exactly what life in Louisiana is like
Guy going around Bourbon Street beating everyone up...thats Bourbon every day!
Thank you for doing the play through it was a struggle with and I been at since I was 7, I'm 38
The way he walked slow in the water bullets bouncing off now that’s cinematic 🤌🏿🏆
I have this game and I spent two solid weeks playing nothing but it. I made it my mission to beat it and by golly, I did it! One of hte most white-knuckle gaming experiences I've ever had.
I considered it a win if I beat the first stage
Bayou Billy is like that kid you meet on the playground who initially looks cool, and seems to like you, but quickly shows his true nature as a bully by kicking you repeatedly in the privates, and laughing at you for thinking you were cool enough to hang with them…Saying this, I realize that I may have some deep psychological scars related to this game…
God I miss when games could be like this. A vaguely referenced plot that seems like it could be really intricate but the game refuses to tell us what's going on. In my head canon Gordon Ramsay is the villain and the player character is Crocodile Dundee. A bunch of game modes back to back, one mintue you're playing a side scrolling beat em up (on a beach?) where when you hit enemies they poop out a knife or a thanksgiving turkey then next thing you know you're in a stripped down spy hunter clone (in the farm fields of Kansas?) apparently going 180mph in the jurrasic park jeep, then you're using the light gun in an on rails shooter in the jungle against dudes with bazookas.
I would have killed to have this game as a kid with my nes.
Konami games always had that wow factor, didn't they? If you like this, you should also check out The Lone Ranger and Laser Invasion. They do the same genre mix-up trick, and they're both fantastic.
“As a reward you will receive a meatball.”
They could've left those driving stages as they were on Mad City. That could've spared the painful memories of a sore left thumb. Should've had the NES advantage back then.
Right? I hated it when games forced you to hold the up button. Rad Racer was guilty of that, too. It always made my thumb hurt.
Whenever I walk past my friend Bill I say..."let me get Bayou Billy." he will never know
Your original Bayou Billy play-through is what made me a fan of your channel. I thought, if this guy is this good at this game he is the real deal. Happy New Year Everyone!
Oh no kidding? :) That's cool, thanks. Happy New Year to you too!
@@NintendoComplete No problem! All the best to you in 2024 Alex.
Man! This is one of the best games on the NES, I remember playing it in the 90s, the soundtrack here is the coolest of all 8/16 bit titles, it’s a pity there are no SNES and Mega Drive ports, or am I missing something? Thanks for the nostalgia, man!
The closing track and scene is like something out of a movie back then.
It was an ordeal beating this back in the day. Thank you for showing it off.
This game was so billy bad ass!!! Country boy making it to the city.... had a gun cabinet in my room by then lol...
Far as I was able to make it as a kid was bourbon street. Go Bayou Billy
I appreciate you knew what you were doing with that thumbnail there~😏😏
Finished this one just a year ago in about four tries. Call it the magic of Christmas if you will...its clunkiness didn't stop me liking it. For me it was all about the driving stages making or breaking it, the rest can indeed be tamed.
Have a good New Year's Eve everybody.
Watching this playthrough as an adult makes me feel much better about my frustrations trying to best this as a kid. Thanks for uploading!
I actually had no idea that this version was so much harder. I wound up playing the Famicom version, and not only was it easier, but you could actually keep the weapons you found in the practice mode over into the real game. Starting the game with a Whip made most enemies a cakewalk, let me tell you. XD
This game sure was fun, and tough one to master. Interesting how the Japanese version "Mad City" is significantly easier compared to the Western release. With this one, get used to seeing the Game Over screen many times until you get good at it.
I don’t recall this music being so FUNKY
Konami sure liked making their games harder for North America. They REALLY overdid it with this one though!
For sure, like even worse than Castlevania 3.
It makes Castlevania 3 look like Kirby lol
The Damn rental market, they wanted you to take 20 years so you’d ask for it for Christmas or something.
Castlevania 3 is all knowing the game, that can beat deathless east, even if you know what you’re doing this one’s a struggle and you’ll barely scrape by in parts.
Great game, only finished it once. I remember that long driving stage, it hurt my damn fingers.
God level 4 is horrible level 5 is not so bad but it’s still take one hit and that’s it.
aah bayou billy... souvenirs/remember... Don t forget that you can control the fire with pad B ...love this game... many thanks for posting this at the edge of 2024 😃
Музыка в субтитрах пробивает до слёз, боже как она шикарна❤
I wish the game play for this game were better because I love its concept and I absolutely love the soundtrack
I love how with the vest, bullets just bounce off you like they were corks, but get punched or kicked and the vest flies off your body (and you take damage from the hit!) And despite all the changes from Mad City, they kept the driving stage "KMH" speed value, so your Jeep can do 180mph--long before the Trackhawk existed!! EDIT.. Nope, having just looked, Mad City has the Jeep doing 250kmh.
Easily one of the greatest soundtracks in all of gaming.
I had the handheld one too.
I think the reason there are games that get a huge difficulty raise when ported from Japan to US was in response to game rental stores in the US. They didn't want anyone beating the game over the weekend on a rental, so they jacked up the difficulty.
Everyone knows this already. Very common knowledge
Are you a bad enough dude to save Anabelle?
Those stories are all the same and they are so cheesy, but I remember wanting very much to rescue the women in those games at my miniature self time.
180 mph in a jeep. That's funny.
Every fight is like a mini boss battle 🤨
my cousin had this game. and i always enjoyed playing it. Hard as nails tho.
“As a reward, you will receive a meatball.”
But... When I was a child, I always asked myself the question "Why is Indiana Jones called Billy?" :D
He hit that guy so hard a piece of chicken 🍗 popped out of him. 😮
AVGN: "Random meats coming out of enemies ass or a weapon to fight back"
Still believe this is the hardest game I have ever played.
Good graphics. Great music. Diverse gameplay. But everything is spoiled by uneven difficulty and a curved percentage of hits on enemies.
Played this game as a kid. One of the most HARDIEST GAMES I’VE EVER PLAYED. Had to use Game Genie to beat it. The Japenese one is a better game than the USA version of it. Still remember using the Zapper on the 3D stages & sometimes used the regular controller too. It’s still a good game regardless of the Bull****.
Used game genie? Weakness disgust me
@@AlexNona80 That is your opinion dude. I do have a bad temper so I used it to enjoy the game. There were times that I didn’t use it on all the games I’ve played in the past since there were no codes for it. Also dude, you’re the 1st person to argue with me using a cheat device for past games. Nobody has ever replied to say what you said in the past when I’ve commented games that are posted on TH-cam.
@@xwf1000v3 its a joke. A Naruto meme lol. And did you assumed my gender?
@@AlexNona80 I don’t think I was talking about Naruto. I know what it is but never watched it. Also I had no idea about your gender. The name is mysterious due to the fact that are Males that I’ve seen are named that. Also I had no idea if your Profile pic is fake or not. If I somehow offended you, I apologize for that.
@@xwf1000v3 never watched it? Smh. Google weakness disgust me Naruto and you will know. I don't know any male who is named zoe
I had this game as a kid, and you basically had to do the training stages to have a chance at getting through the thing the first few times. The "Street Fighting" stages are the most annoying even after you're good enough to get through the other stuff, even if you're careful with your jump kicks until you pick up a weapon, you're liable to get kicked around a dangerous amount because of how long it takes to beat everyone up. And those gators in the early stages were the height of tedium, if you get unlucky they could take AGES to surface in the right spots.
So his name was never Crocodile Dante? i feel betrayed now!:)) awesome game, i finished it a lot of times when i was younger
I played this game a lot as a kid. The characters were interesting, music was great, enemies were cool, setting was neat. I got pretty far but man I could never beat this one. Always wanted to see the ending though!
Hardest God damn game I ever played on nes. Even with game genie.
Konami is one of the best video game companies on the planet ❤
*_WAS_* one of the best video game companies. They're a complete joke now.
Konami is pretty much dead now.
@@mywifesboyfriend5558 Yakuza owns them, now. That's part of the reason.
Scary story, I grew up with this game on the NES.. Through sheer determination, I beat it. 10 years on, hearing "Captain N" had failed, I thought "Wait, what? Thought he was the game master! I were still in grade school when I beat that!"
Then again, The Adventures of Bayou Billy wasn't among Captain N's first games on the NES.....
i remember the commercial for this game
I’ve got to hand it to you taking those stages down with the zapper, I’ve only ever played this game with the controller.
I mean this is Josh just watching your playthrough of bayou Billy I love by you but I beat bayou Billy a few times and it's an awesome game
I think because of watching Captain N before owning an NES I expected Bayou Billy to be a much more important part of the overall NES experience than it actually was.
Also it seems like the Captain N sound effects were like 50% from this game, even for Mega Man. Also Bayou Billy as represented on the show was like 75% Pitfall! 25% actual Bayou Billy
at 44:24 that sound sample says NICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCE aka nice
This game gets hated on but I dig it. I like the three different game modes in one. Street fighting driving and shooting all-in-one. Kind of keeps it fresh as you play through it. Another classic by Konami
That game offered so much in terms of a side stroller a 3D driver and a third party shooter.
I remember this game being so brutal for no reason i havent played the Japan version yet. I have to say the soundtrack slaps. Also, happy new year!
Ultimately, I think the worst part of the game is that they made the driving stages have one-hit deaths. It sucks all the fun out of them and just makes them a chore to get through. Especially the highway! I don't mind the difficulty of the street-fighting stages because you can usually get through it if you manage to keep a weapon. And the zapper/controller aim stages are fine, you just have to be on your toes and can't take a break with the bosses.
The game play and music of this reminds me of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. Which makes sense since it was released the same year by the same company
It's kinda strange Annabelle Wasn't covered up but the Japanese one she was
Banger; great memories
Somewhere, Captain N is shaking his fist at this video and probably downvoted it.
😂😂😂
_captain n?!!_
You must be old like me!!
The Game Master
B BILLY, ONE OF THE TOUGHEST GAMES AT THE TIME, AND THE DAY I beat it brought such a feeling of accomplishment
Geez, Belmonts wish the Vampire Killer was that long.
Takes me back
Amazing video.
Still a better love story than Twilight
Difficulty in US in a nutshell.
Konami with Mad City/Bayou Billy: Too Easy. Let's make it hard as hell.
Nintendo of America with SMB: The Lost Levels: Too Hard. Let's skip it and localize Doki Doki Panic as SMB2
-in a nutshell-
This game is so hard . Always wanted to beat it back then , but couldn’t do it .
Very cool!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for another amazing playthrough NintendoComplete!
Thank you! :)
cool and I love this game so much 👍
I had this game hard as hell
I'm sorry, but the first person shooter scenes STILL remind Me of Gotcha! The Sport.
У нас она называлась крокоди данди
These animations came from the genesis and snes.
This game bring back both good and bad memories, the frustrating driving stages bring back the bad, but the game wasn't almost impossible battletoads hard😂
It was so hard that made me cry
I don't know how I did it but I beat this once when I was a kid and it took me playing it daily for MONTHS to learn how the enemies would attack ya and the best way to go about it. No joke it's a hard one.
Man what is going on here, my game doesn't look this crisp and bright on my NES🤔
Is it bad game design if the game plays so unique? The on foot sections of this game do not feel good at all in a pick up and play scenario. It has such a weird design of how you need to do and avoid damage.
I think the most frustrating thing about fighting is that you don't stun the enemies when you hit them, so they can often hit you right back unless you jump kick so that you land just outside their attack range.
YEAH!!!! =D BILLY!!! GOOD PICK CAPTAIN!! Hated this game. Gators ate me up. Sad times!!
this game makes the dark souls series seem easy
An absolute classic. Also I disagree with the "it's too hard to be fun".
To me the main difficulty came from the damned driving stage, but once you got past that you were golden.
Thanks happy weekend
AAAAAA que jogo maravilhoso mano ❤❤❤
99% of us were able to beat the US version using save states after emulators. Can you blame us, though? This was brutally hard! Thankfully, JP version isn't that bad!
So true....This game is fun, but the difficulty for the western release was in my opinion way too high.
@@Phantom.Gaming64 Streets of Rage 3 also followed its example... Although it was to prevent people from beating the game easily over the weekend through rentals, I'm not sure about the reason behind Bayou Billy's insane difficulty.
Bare Knuckles 3 all the way, baby!
@@YaervethStreets of Rage 3 was such bullshit.
MAD CITY!! 😱😱😱😱😱😱
this game have more levels ???? x.x
Sure this game is crazily hard, i did completed once in the nes emulator (Not actual nes console).
It's recommeded to do practice first.
The driving stage is the hardest part due the rough turns.
However, it's possible to dodge enemy vehicles and enemy aircrafts without destroying them, they're not mandatory but recommeded to take them out if the going gets too dangerous.
11:17 Poor Annabelle
Nah.
*Oh God!*
Who the fuck carries a roast chicken with them in a fight?
Fuckin' good old days 🫡
So the "meatball" you got in training. What does that do?
THIS GAME HAVE FINAL BOSS LEVEL ????!!!! xD jaja
Those driving parts can end your game so damn fast, they should have given you a life bar like the famicom game, it’s not like the rest of the game is easy I’ve only ever beaten it with the whip.
Hola amigo una pregunta como consigo el juego de super bomberman
*as a reward, you will recieve a meatball*
😐
...um... is bayou billy a _hobo?_
It'll be good for collecting the lint in his carpetbag.
Awesome
Strangely enough for no reason the international/NES version was made more difficult than the Famicom
You had to be patient fighting the enemies. This wasnt really a button masher. You had to hit and move and slow play your way. I think i only made it to the 3rd or 4th level....tough game but i suppose its beatable if you spend time at it.