The Adventures of Bayou Billy NES Vs. Mad City Famicom - USA Vs. Japan | Nefarious Wes
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- There are numerous differences between the Famicom's Mad City and the NES's Adventures of Bayou Billy. Which is the better version? I take a look at the two and compare them.
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main difference... human beings can beat Mad City.
David Brailsford Guess I'm a god then.
GrankFarrett 😂 “For if knowledge is power than a god am I!” - The Riddler
Was that over the top? I can never tell.
To put it in perspective, you can beat Mad City in a single casual session. You’ll lose a few lives, maybe a continue or two, but you’ll beat it without much hassle. Bayou Billy on the other hand, finishing the first stage is a fucking accomplishment
Yup, I don't get much troubles in Bayou Billy on stages 1 to 3 overall due to managing to learn ways to manipulate the enemy and perfecting my timings on my attacks to be able to hit the enemy when my attack animation is almost over so I can move away to avoid taking hits whenever the enemy has little to no hit-stun (something that in Mad City starts to happen here and there until loop 3 and EVEN on loop 3 Mad City is still a walk in the park overall... yup, pretty much Bayou Billy is playing Mad City in loop 3 or higher but with more modifiers to help the enemy to kick our digital butts), but even I can recognize how hard the game is overall, however I love Bayou Billy as it was one of the few games back then that I could use to make a mockery of my siblings for failing (and giving up on it) big time while I was able to suceed in besting it.
I beat bayou Billy as a kid once and as an adult I finally managed to get it beat again after serious practice. I can still do it but it takes a few tries
@@asafoetidajones8181 Not an easy day, recently I did beat it again, this time 1-credit run (however probably I'll try it again without the Racing Training extra 1-up to make it more fair) but despite having a lot of practice, it doesn't make it easier when stages 4 and 5 are pure RNG shenanigans with the harzards.
@@asafoetidajones8181.Are you playing on a real NES or an emu ? Bayou Billy was ahead of its time , pretty much GTA before GTA came out . A beat em up mixed with racing and a lightgun . I could never understand how people don't like this game
@@joezar33 real NES, or at least NOAC clone. I really don't recall if was on an original deck or a clone but it wasn't emu
The reason the US version is so much harder than the J version is because of the rental industry. Renting out games was illegal in japan, but a huge business in America. So they cranked the difficulty of many games way up (ninja gaiden 3) in order to make them mutli-rentals instead of single rentals.
+Alex Krasny You're the 2nd person to suggest that. I'll hafta look more into it.
Dude! As a kid i couldn't even get to the boss of the first level in ninja gaiden 3. I fucking hated that game. I loved the first two but the third one was even harder than the xbox game.
Wow that's interesting. Usually JP games are harder than their US counterparts, but this game is definitely an exception.
I don't think the rental thing is right. Konami wouldn't make more money if the rental store rented it out more the store would.
You think blockbuster was in talks with the game companys
people complain about the audio samples regarding the voice but honestly, it was very impressive back then to hear this sort of stuff.
+Dongled I always thought it was cool.
Not impressive enough, that they didn't used the $4011 register properly, and they shuffled everything into 1 single ROMbank sound programming wise. They could have easily made a separate bank for those voice samples, and program it as RAW PCM instead of 1byte DPCM samples.
B52 bomber. . .
It was, but I still do remember us mocking it even as kids back then. This one, Double Dribble, Blades of Steel…
It WAS really cool! And also the music, with it's funky guitar bits. one of the best instrumentations in the late NES library
Good job on the review! There is, however, one final thing that you forgot to mention: The Adventures of Bayou Billy only has one ending, while Mad City has a total of four (including a false ending); in the American version, if you do all the practice rounds, you get extra bullets, lives, etc., and this also happens in Mad City, but if you do that, it gives you a bad ending. Other than that, the ending you get depends on how you interact with Annabelle, after beating the final stage bosses. You can either let the ending progress normally, or you can do one of two things: Hold Up and Select as Billy and Annabelle start to embrace, which results in basically the same ending, but the dialect is Kansai instead, or, you can avoid Annabelle by walking around in circles, for a few seconds...and Annabelle breaks up with Billy, and the screen where they embrace and some credits roll by, removes both of them. Other than that - nice comparison!
Yep he dropped the ball on that if he’s played Mad City
The Billy on the American cover looks like Crocodile Dundee crossed with Ernest P. Worrell. "Hey Vern!"
Ha ha, someone else mentioned that too. Makes me wonder if Ernest was the model for the face.
@@NefariousWesthe face looks like it was someone else's face slapped on the body.
Makes me wonder of it looked too much like Mick Dundee and someone made them change at last minute so they slapped on Earnest's face instead.
Man I beat it staying up all night on a rental from my grocery store back in the 80s. One of the hardest and finger numbing games I ever played, but I loved it. I remember the game over screen used to scare me lol.
Mad City also had a breakup ending if you avoid Annabelle long enough during the end scene. Its kinda funny, to be truthful.
+bobbonjay Ha ha, yeah I know, I decided not to include it.
so the american version had some nice aesthetic alterations but the Japanese original had a better gameplay experience.
Gameplay > aesthetics
Mad City is much better.....im pretty good at Bayou Billy but its more of a test and not playing for enjoyment
He's saying "bye" at the end.
+Joseph Upton I'm gonna take your word for it since you're the second person to tell me that. I still don't hear it.
Westapo: Video Games and Loud Music Yeah its some of he worst voice digitization iv'e ever heard.
I agree. That’s what the horrible sample is saying.
I think so too
Maybe it's crikey
i think this is only applicable in japan, but during the cutscenes for stage 6 onwards, gordon actually gets upset that you made it that far.
If only I had known someone back then who spoke Japanese to translate it for me. Now I do, and I've been considering remaking this video.
Yup; at first, he stops smiling and then for the final two he looks pissed.
OMG... i HIGHLY RECOMMEND watching this video at 0.5 speed, at least halfway through onwards, not only for the ease of seeing the discrepancies, but this guy's voice is absolutely PERFECT as a totally drunken dude!! Lol 😂
Japanese box art killing it, as usual. He looks so cool in the Japanese box art. I've always loved how the Japanese came up with characters, being heavily inspired from old movies.. I do the same thing with mine, though music and even old comics inspire them.. My brother and I were obsessed with all things outer space, as kids (still art), after a trip to the planetarium and we actually still visit it every fall now still..
I used to draw a character who was half human, and half alien (he looked human though), because when I had first watched Blade Runner as a child, I thought the Replicants were aliens. I also felt sorry for the main character Roy Batty, so I had modeled the character I created, after a young Roy Batty, though also a young Thouzer from Fist of the North Star, because I felt bad for that character as well..
My brother and I would create these characters, and pretend they'd go on adventures in space or other worlds. We'd even pretend they were in the tank, when we'd play Blaster Master lol.. Around the same time we started reading our older brother's comics, and Guardians of the Galaxy was one of them, which we loved a lot since it reminded us of our little stories. When I got older and my drawing better (15/16), I started drawing the character I created, the way I would have drawn Star Lord if I worked at Marvel.. Fast forward to 2015, I started reworking designs to redo the comic, and even remake the game we did for it back in high school..
In 2018 I made him in Final Fantasy 15, to see what he'd look like.. In 2021 when the Guardians of the Galaxy game came out, the way Star Lord was designed, looked almost like my character. I was happy because I used to heavily doubt anything I did, and so to see that was amazing to me. I had even got to talk with the artist, awesome guy, and he said "maybe we were in each other's heads for a moment.". I no longer doubt my work, and I just got a Nintendo Switch dev kit.. I will remake the game, based on the comic which I had called "Sentient Armament". ^_^
Cool story bro.
Adventures of Bayou billy is one of the most frustrating games on NES.
I remember my friend tried to lend this to me back in the 90s and I literally brought it back to school the next day and we almost got into a fistfight over it.
This was quite an ambitious game for the time; with the variety of fighting, gun shooter and driving stages. If only it was made better.
Mad City is much better. They made the U.S. version's driving stages handle like shit on purpose! Controls much better on the Famicom version.
I just watched this and the renegade/kunio-kun videos back to back, your commentary is hilarious. Subbed.
Ha ha, thanks! Finally, someone who appreciates my jokes!
Love TAoBB!! My Mom purchased it for me for Christmas in '89 and it's one of the few actual games/toys that I still have to this day, from childhood! The game is harder than a Mutha', but, I managed to beat it close to a dozen times, back in the day. Awesome channel, man!
Thanks!
In my humble opinion, The Adventures of Bayou Billy was one of nine-tenths of the NES library of games that the Game Genie was created for. Granted, I still like the game despite its controversially unfair difficulty, but I would have rather have played Mad City in my youth over it. Great video.
Thanks!
I agree with this completely..mix the difficulty of Mad City with the visuals and audio samples of Bayou Billy and it'd be a great game. I DID have to use a Game Genie to beat the game as a kid..but I still love the game..it's one of those games that sticks in my memory for the NES..right up there with the original TMNT game, Mario, and Legend of Zelda 1 and 2.
"Billy's janky ass piece o shit jeep" I mean you're not wrong
“Oh yeah” I haven’t laughed so hard in quite a while. Man I’m glad I started binge watching your videos again. Hope all is well my friend.
Thanks, dude! Where you been?
Your analysis is thorough and freaking hilarious! Awesome job. Now I too am dying to know what the voice at the end is saying. And the four of us are dying to perform the Bayou Billy music soon.
Thanks a lot! I checked out your channel and looks like you have a ton of covers for me to listen to. I subscribed cuz when you guys cover Bayou Billy I want to be the first to know!
43 old American who had gotten this when it was new as a kid. So frustrating and hard ,I'll never forget
I have both versions and Mad City is way better than Bayou Billy.
Better gameplay balance, different driving stages that are not as punishing when you make mistakes, and a minigame (that you can't play unless you get a english patched game or know japanese), the only two things that was better in the non JPN version was the Game Over screen and that you can beat the game in 1 loop using the practice mode bonuses (the JPN version if you use the practice mode first and get at least 1 bonus perk like the life refill in non shooting stages when you die... only works once BTW, you are forced to do a 2nd loop to see the ending... and have 3 variants based on how you embrace Anabelle and if you hold certain buttons when you embrace her).
Gggwwwaaarr!!! Always with the best shirts man!
That´s confirm what I think all my childhood, the famicon games where more more easy to beat than the Nes.
Also some of them have more advanced music, like Castlevania III
It's worth mentioning that the - in "OH-GOD" was there in both releases: Mad City has a tile placement error causing it to clip partially into the OH, though.
A simple change in walkspeed made Bayou Billy brutally difficult. I enjoy playing through both.
I had this game and I could beat it pretty much whenever I played it. I’m not exaggerating. I just happened to have discovered back then that completing the practice modes beforehand would award you extra lives and energy. This made a huuuuge difference! 👍
Sadly, I never knew this and I've always done it the hard way.
Nefarious Wes Well, practice makes perfect. 😉 However, if more people knew about it this game would definitely not be so much hated. It was one of my favorites back then!
It's still one of my favorites despite how difficult it is and how damn cheap those driving stages are.
Can confirm the driving stage is the most realistic Louisiana driving simulator ever made!
First of all, how DARE you call Annabelle a southern skank 🤣Secondly, this is my favorite video right now. AOBB is one of my favorite games of all time. To this DAY I still use that final screen of Billy and Annabelle hugging each other as a desktop background, and I also use it on my phone. That ending music is so romantic, and added to that, the shimmering of Annabelle's eyes like she's about to cry, it's all so good. And about the ending music, when it moves up that whole step, it's just icing on the cake.
I agree that Mad City is easier, but just like when people say that SMB2 Japan is the "real" sequel, I feel like AOBB is the REAL version. It's what we got, and holy cow, what a ride. I have lots of other thoughts, but haha I can't right now. I just want you to know that this video made my evening. Thank you so much sir.
Awesome shirt. Long live gwar!
Damn straight!
Hey, Japan started that fight with us. There's no excuse for bayou billy. Not a single one. 6 year old me broke that game literally into pieces
this game has a secret ending. In the end, when you defeat the brothers and the girl runs out, you need to run away from her, then only she and all tearful will be in the credits!
This is probably the best example I know of (certainly on the NES) of a game that tried to be a jack of all trades but ended up being a master of none.
You did a great job with this video. Great work
+Media Glitch Thanks, Joel. This is one of my earliest videos.
I never had trouble playing Bayou Billy as a kid.
Whoa, Bret Hart Simpson figure. Glad they immortalized that awesome cameo with a figure.
Loved/hated this game as a kid, great video Wes!
Thanks!
loved this episode. Subbed!
Thanks! This is an old one, but was still a lot of fun to make. I think you'll notice that my videos are much better now in comparison to this one.
nice review wes, this game was tough back in the day
Thanks, bud!
Surprised a channel like this doesn't have more subscribers.
I'm slowly getting more....
Westapo it was a good video that pointed out how much better this game is for the NES, even if it is harder.
Thanks.
game was ahead of its time its a great game I always loved playing it.
Bayou Billy for NES was brutal. I owned it when I was young and may have only gotten to the third level and that was rare. Always liked the game though. Mad City I played later on emulation and beat it my first time in 24 minutes. So that version was too easy but alot more fun. I think the game shouldve been balanced somewhere in the middle. There is alot of issues like having to exchange hits with each enemy, which has the same health as you. Very tedious and it seems you have to exploit positioning tricks to win.
Always thought it was lazy to give enemies tons of health to increase difficulty. Titan mode in God Of War 2 did this to an EXTREME and it just made everything a very tedious endurance match. The driving sequences seem brutal too.
Its impressive you beat the US version. Great work.
My buddy, The ReNesance, is currently streaming Bayou Billy. I actually sent him a copy, ha ha. He got to the first driving stage. Once you get past those the rest of the game is a piece of cake by comparison.
@@NefariousWes Nice. Yea those driving stages, especially the later ones looked brutal. Im assuming Id have the most trouble learning those. I saw playthroughs before and it looked pretty extreme.
Games were often harder in America 'back in the day' because publishers were afraid of people renting and quickly beating the game rather than buying. (Renting wasn't allow in Japan, though the used game market was huge.)
I had no clue people didn't like Bayou Billy. Me and my brother rented it for the weekend and had it beat by Sunday night. He did the shooting levels and I did the driving. Yeah it was hard but we thought games were supposed to be hard like Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Tutles. We ended up renting it again because we absolutely loved it.
Hey... you can't fool me ! Your logo is a flipped Ministry logo ! It's all cool though as I enjoyed the video and will probably subscribe.
Edit : and you're in Colorado ... Dude I used to go game hunting at the Denver flea market all the time as a kid. Loved finding games and comics there.
Yup, combined with a Deicide logo. I haven't gone game hunting at the Mile High Flea Market in a while, but I have found some great stuff there over the years. I have a few game hunting videos checking out some of the stores around Denver and Game Force Boulder.
Played this game as a kid. Just recently beat it...good fucking video man. Subscribed!
Aw man, I remember that US commercial--I didn't like it THEN... I enjoy some cheese, but it was done wrong in my opinion. I had no idea that there were so, so many differences between the two. Very surprised in the more showy digital bits and challenge over here versus the Japanese game. Regardless of how I feel about the game, I do enjoy that soundtrack.
There's a comic? Heh--going to be keeping an eye out for that! Nice!
Yeah, lots of differences. Yeah, keep an eye out for that comic.
13:10 Mystery ending sample! "I..." We need a really amplified version of the sample to listen to, hopefully without other sounds overlapping.
scroll up to most recent comment up your answer is there.
Love the GWAR shirt bro!
I look at Bayou Billy as the real experience. Its pretty unfare but that force your mood through fire.
As a long time Bohab since High School, I had to instantly subscribe.
I slip a few GWAR references in some of my other videos, too! Keep your ears open!
The 1980s when EVERY GAME was like Dark Souls.
Great vid! To make matters worse, few people realize that after you "think" you beat the game, there actually is a "2nd loop hard mode," which is hard to notice at first. (The way I could tell, is that the enemies in the water with the giant sticks now take 3 shots with the gun instead of 2. I am not sure any other changes aside from enemies taking more hits. (This was most obvious on the level 7 shooting bosses who I could only beat using the controller, as the Zapper was too slow.) 😀
Okay...here's a big gap in the plot. You fight Gordon first, and then his bodyguards? Shouldn't it be the other way around. Not to mention that they have got to be the worst bodyguards ever. They watched Billy kill their boss, and then they go after Billy?
Ah, video game logic. Yeah, it would've made more sense to fight the bodyguards first.
There's been a bunch of games japan made harder in sneaky ways for US releases. In Sonic Adventure there was a location that in the japanese version had an extra island to be utilized for a faster completion time, where it was completely removed so US players could never hope to utilize such to beat a japanese player's time.
Oh my... This freaking game. The driving stage was the one I dreaded so freaking much. One thing you didn't mention though is how the training stages in the game actually award you with power ups that you can use in the main game, such as an extra life up item, extra bullets for the shooting game and I think there was Extra time for the driving stage if you completed the training stage prior to the main game. I never heard of mad city so I don't know if that one have training mode, but it would have been nice to see if there was also diference on that regard. This game I spend a lot of time on my childhood, always so satisfying to get past the highway stage, so many memories but man... did they really had to change it from how it was in Mad city?
Mad City does have the training mode, but honestly I never knew it could help you out in the main game. That would have been useful to know. But yeah, I hate the driving stages. Worst part of the game. So much better in Mad City.
Great video respect from Australia
Thanks! This is an old one, my stuff is a lot better now. Hope those fires are being contained.
While I appreciate the fact that you made a video about this game, I have to say that there are a lot of things you didn't mentioned:
-Game A AND Game B modes are swapped. In BB Game A uses the Zapper and Game B uses the joystick only.
-In the Japanese Version there are 4 endings!
Easy Ending:
If you complete any of the training modes, you will get a bad ending, with the door interior with a message:
"Gordon was defeated However Something lingered in Billy's heart Next time see the ending without training"
Normal Ending:
Same as here.
Jerkass Ending:
When Annabelle proceeds you, move around avoiding contact with you. If you do this, you will get an ending where Annabelle thinks Billy doesn't love her anymore.
Kansai-Ban Ending:
When Annabelle hugs you immediately hold down UP + SELECT, and you will get an ending that is written in kansai dialect, and they speak about some jokes and stuff - not to mention Billy is a bit more forceful on Annabelle in this ending.
-Quiz Mode
In the japanese version of you get a Game Over, and decide not to continue (or beating the game 4 times in a row) you can enable the Quiz Mode from the main menu.
Here the game becamse a trivia and if you answer to all of those questions you get bonus stuff!
-Regarding to sound
What you hear at the end of Bayou Billy is a sample saying "BYE" however it interferes with the drum sample caller initalization routine making an busconflict, therefore the sample is played in garbage quality.
Technically these are not DPCM but more like APDM converter PCM samples what is in Bayou Billy, since it fetches the $4011 memory range for the init.
Also, in the first driving stage's BGM the lead is completely different in both versions.
The first driving stage? I'm not hearing any difference in the music.
Sounds like he says "Thanks" at the credits.
This is my favorite video. :)
hey! fucking awesome AWESOME gwar shirt man!!! new sub here!!
+cucollins12 Thanks, I appreciate that!! I'm a HUGE GWAR fan!! I don't know if you can see, but I have limited edition Oderus and Balsac figures on my CD shelf. I even got an Oderus tattoo days after he died. Dave Brockie is a huge influence of mine.
The speech at the end just says “bye bye 👋.
I would love to see this game with a complete facelift. Perform combos, takedowns in fact there's so much that can be done to this great classic. Food for thought it would nice to see. Got it in 89 took me 2 weeks to beat it now after 35 years still have my copy (Complete with box manual game sleeve) and still playing love the challenge.😊😉
Many USA versions were made much harder, especially when it came to Konami (Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps). This is due to the video game rental markets at the time. They didn't want anyone renting it and beating it in a day. They didn't have to worry about this when it came to Japan because renting video games was illegal there.
Yeah, I didn't know that when I made this video. I never read up on video game history until I had to start doing research for this channel. This was one of my first videos.
The sound at the end is Billy's audible lament after finally busting his nut that Annabelle was just not worth all that fightin', shootin', and gator wrasslin'.
It is sort of hard that they recorded a different word only for the last frame of the game. Instead they may being trying to include the battle cry Bayou Billy! ..with the failing result of a crackled ".....b-ay... Thanks for sharing. Finally somebody cool enough gives a good review about this awesome game. We must accept that for worse and better, those days' games implied a lot more of imagination and you became part of a let's pretend adventure. And this game was just like that, with a true action hero, refusing to plainly punch generic enemies walking in line directly inside your killzone
Who knows what the hell is said at the end? All I know is that it's an intelligible, garbled mess! Bayou Billy was definitely a one-of-a-kind game back in '89, and while I understand why people hate it so much, it's really fun once you get good at it. Glad you enjoyed the video!
He says "Bye".
In Europe we also got the US release. I remember playing it as a kid, it was very rough.
...low key..I love Bayou Billy. It may have a lot to do with the fact that 1) my mom was a HUGE fan of Crocodile Dundee as a movie so I was used to seeing a character like that. 2) I have an aunt who used to live in Louisiana (she's got some stories to tell about the legends of the swamp and New Orleans let me tell you) and 3) I live in Georgia..so it's only a few hours drive for me to actually FIND a place like that via a day drive or so to the lower half of the state or Florida, or a trip west to the swamps of Mississippi and Louisiana..which I've been to New Orleans myself to visit my aunt at one point when she lived there, and I've done some swamp tours as a kid with the family on Florida vacations. I'd actually like to see a modern Bayou Billy game..but I have SEVERE doubts we'll ever get one or anything similar.
I always thought Bayou Bully was a mix of Billy Jack and Crocodile Dundee.
I hate-luv this game, too, dude. Nearly got it done when I was thriteen years old - on a vacation in denmark. One shoot and I would've beaten the boss! I'm catching it up right now. At least I pwned Punch Out a couple of months ago. :D Yeah, I'm pretty sure the hard gameplay was due to the Pearl Harbour aftermatch... In Germany at least we had PAL instead of NTSC which let the games run a little bit slower.
Hell yeah! I'm not the only one who loves Bayou Billy!
Interesting. If only we could have had the best of both games.
I think Billy is saying bye at the end. This was the first NES game I beat, could finish it consistently in 1 continue, then traded it to a friend for SMB 2. Years later I got back my first 2 NES games in a game shop for my collection, this, and John Elway Quarterback (terrible game). Surprised you didn't cover that Mad City had multiple endings depending on if you ran away from Annabelle at the end, in the Japanese version you can actually run away from her, leading to a somber sad ending where they actually break up.
Mann Brotha this Game Is Hard💪 I beat it maybe Twice in this lifetime. Ugh this game has birds! You "Nip" a car you Die, You have full life yet when You Run Out of Bullets you die, he has a knife let him toss the knife... ps: the cover always made me Laugh😂 Homeboy has No Neck. #NOLA #Gambit #Bayou #DOWN #SuicideBoys #NickCage #BayouBilly
I never beat this game , but it's a decent NES beat em up/Hybrid game, crazy to hear people dislike this game . How man NES games gave us a "beat em up and a light gun, with a Driving game" . This game was GTA before GTA came out 😅
I almost get the feeling that they had that last voice sample at the end, but were nearly out of cartridge space, so bit crushed the living daylights out of it to make it fit.
That, or the more likely issue was that the programming pulled the DPCM sample incorrectly..
Also, all these years (which, nice job, this was pretty well edited for that era of TH-cam), but none of the comments seem to have noticed the little OOPS at 12:50, you have the screen grabs swapped.
10:20 THE REAL ANSWER is that Nintendo had gotten Japan's government to ban rental stores. But the American government wasn't so easy to bribe, and thus they resorted to making games much harder. That is historically the ONLY REASON for the nonsense monkey puzzle in Lion King.
Jesus dont understood how everyone had trouble beating these games. It took me like a few days to beat these games when i was a kid. Bayu billy , turtles had almost everygame that came out on nintendo beat every one lol 😂
Am I the only one that feels guilty when I play the easier version of a game like Bayou Billy or Castlevania III? It's like I can't escape the sensation that I'm cheating somehow.
Will Mistretta Don't. The games were purposely made far more difficult in the U.S. The Japanese versions are the originals.
It's funny games we dislike as kids cuz there hard are actually the best put together NES games and we love them as adults because they were made for adults but we played everything back in 80s lol... But the hard games are actually fun now we understand how play them etc
Fightin', Shootin', 'n Drivin'!
Owned Bayou Billy since I was 5. Beat it once when I was around 10 years old. Never beat it since.
For a future one of these episodes you should do Magical Doropie vs. The Krion Conquest. Like Bayou Billy, the game is much more enjoyable in the original japanese, and also has some extras not in its american counterpart.
Rewind Mike covered it briefly in his Vic Tokai video.
Is funny how I enjoy BOTH the international version and the JPN release (USA release even more due to being able to say that I managed to best the game with more unfair balance against the player due to the "blockbuster syndrome"), oh... also a funny thing, that International Game Over screen ACTUALLY appears in the JPN version... but ONLY when you run out of time during the driving stages (and you pretty much won't see that screen unless you waste the time on purpose due to how stupidly easy is compared to the international version... and it has Billy's jeep burning as well, more like how you see Billy get shot down picture when you lose a live in the on-rails shooter stages... something the international version removes as given the fact of how they used said screen, chances are that most likely you're not on a driving stage when you get a Game Over), not to mention that the JPN version has 3 and a half endings (ending one is just not getting an ending at all and that happens if you beat the game after completing at least ONE training stage... and only applies to the first loop you play after doing that, loop 2 or higher in that scenario the flag that you played a training stage is disabled and you can get any of the other endings like if you didn't play the training stages at all, ending two is just avoiding Anabelle after defeating the final boss until the screen changes, ending 3 is the international only ending and the "half" ending is the same as ending 3... but you need to hold some buttons in your controller, all it does overall is change the dialogue of the ending)
I had that gwar shirt in high school in early 2000s! Damn brother hi jacked it...
12:53 wrong screens lol
Eric Sandoval Not the last time I've made that mistake.
7:04 too
Its been confirmed that voice at the end says " nicccccccccccccccccccccccccccce" aka nice
I'm more annoyed that they put Jim Varney on the USA box art than anything. Should have called it Ernest goes to Baton Rouge.
So many people have mentioned that Billy looks like Ernest on the cover and I never saw it until people started pointing it out. 😆
I just discovered Mad City today and played though it. Yet another game made needlessly difficult for the US release heh. Mad City made Annabelle looking kinda southern belle-ish. Guess Gordon just didn't like their forbidden love, how dare a proper lady be seen with a man raised by gators. Also Billy's jeep takes visible damage in the form of loosing the top. The fact that you can actually TAKE DAMAGE in those driving stages. Finished it without having to continue and i had to do a double take. Nice to see that someone pointed out the differences.
I hear ya. In fact, I've never seen the Game Over screen on Mad City without killing myself on purpose just to see it. And yeah, Annabelle's more conservative in the Japanese version, which I found kinda odd. And I never noticed that the Jeep takes visible damage. I'll hafta play it again. I haven't touched it since I made this video. Thanks for watching!
Here's a little comment from a troll to a nave, this video never should have been let out the f**king microwave...
Almost rage quit a few times on that "I-10" driving stage, the one before Bourbon Street.
That was as far as I could get as a kid. It wasn't until I was a teenager that i was finally able to beat that stage. Once I was finally able to do that, I beat the game.
What's funny about that is games I couldn't beat in the 80's I can beat now; I need to take a second shot at ol' BB. Great comparo vid, by the way, Wes. Subbed
Thanks!
Never played this,Had two friends growing up they were brothers, used to invite me over to watch them play this 😂😂😂😂
I love that billy bayou music!
I always thought the cover art for the US version looked like Earnest P. Worrel. Lol
I've said it before... this game was like mixing Battletoads with Double Dragon, I beat the american version when I was 11, but MAN that shit was hard.
Yeah, it's brutal. The driving was always the toughest part for me.
When game begins you heard this old familiar voice: "The Adventures of Bayou Billy".
Never been able to beat Bayou Billy without the game genie, and it's one of the first NES games I ever played. One of the best soundtracks for the NES but that death jingle still haunts me. And Gwar is fuckin' awesome, RIP Dave Brockie
I wasn't able to beat Bayou Billy until I was a teenager, and an overall better gamer. But yeah, that death jingle haunts me to this day. And yeah, I miss Dave. The new GWAR just isn't the same without him.
So, yesterday I pulled out my NES and beat this game on my first sit down, with one continue left. Crazy that it took me over 25 years to have the patience to actually play the game it's supposed to be played, and it definitely took alot of patience with the unusual enemy patterns! Then with my old school 8-bit confidence soaring I tackled 2 more hardcore NES completions; Super C (no 10 life code, no continues) and The Punisher (didn't take me 20 some years for this one, but it took a couple years to master Frank's vendetta when a friend gave the cartridge to me).
Bayou Billy is pretty brutal. I really don't care for the driving stages. The Punisher is the only one of those three that you mentioned that I have yet to beat. But it's on the list! I wanna make a video for it, so I'm gonna hafta beat it.
Took me a few years, and I won't spoil too much technique for you but the best advice I have outside of just practicing is don't die lol. You can spare 1 or 2 in a complete game but that's about it if you want to finish. Get your reserve lives in the double digits early and keep them there for the games entirety.
E Blizzard Hell, I'm not above taking some hints and tips. Especially for old 8-bit games.
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Bayou Billy had too much to drink.
Or he played his own video game
Mad City also had the quiz mode and multiple endings.
Yeah, I should've done research for this, but it was one of my first videos and I wanted to do it all on my own. I learned real quick to not do that anymore.
Very nice, i've enjoyed so much your video. Amazing game, my apologize for my english, hugs from Brazil.
Obrigado por assistir.