What a… stinkin’, no-good… burgerfricckle!!

In going back to play old games, I’m finding that some of them are real stinkers.  Games that were once cherished are actually big steaming piles of gaming poo.  I’ve watched a fair amount of Angry Video Game Nerd episodes in the last few weeks, and honestly, I’m holding back from a profanity-laced tirade on a game I once thought to be awesome!

Since this is a family friendly blog…..  I think…..  I’ll refrain from saying anything too vulgar.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy isn’t on my list of “Must Play Through Games”.  At least, not anymore.  I remember renting it from our Co-Op store when I was little, mostly because my friend next door thought it was an awesome game.  I got some enjoyment out of it, I guess.  You could pick up weapons like knives and bats to attack your enemies with, and the jungle\swamp setting seemed pretty cool.

For cryin’ out loud, the first level had you punching out alligators until roasted chicken (health) came flying out!  How is that not awesome?!

The other night, I re-played it.  Not only does it take abnormally precise positioning to land your hits, but when you do manage to connect, it takes a good five or six punches to kill the first few bad guys you encounter in the game.  It definitely didn’t take long to clue in why I never played it much as a kid…  you needed the NES Zapper for level two, which I didn’t own then, and nor do I own it now.

So much for a playthrough.  Not that I’d necessarily want to put myself through the pain and personal anguish of taking (what feels like) two or three minutes to kill each enemy I came across.

I will give the game this, however…  that distinctive Konami music is friggin’ amazing.  Here’s a short piece played at the beginning of the game, where the bad guy says “I HAVE YOUR SCANTILY CLAD GIRLFRIEND!!”  It just seems so…  southern bayou, gonna eat some cajun crawfish gumbo, 8-bit YEEHAW.

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