The Adventures of Bayou Billy

The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Developer(s)	Konami
Publisher(s)	Konami
Release Date(s)
Nintendo Entertainment System	NA: June 1989 JP: August 12, 1988 EU: January 24, 1991 AU: 1991
Nintendo Entertainment System	NA: June 1989 JP: August 12, 1988 EU: January 24, 1991 AU: 1991
Virtual Console (Wii U)	NA: January 7, 2016 EU: November 26, 2015
Virtual Console (Wii U)	NA: January 7, 2016 EU: November 26, 2015
Platform(s)
Genre(s)	Beat 'em up
Rating(s)
ESRB	04
PEGI	02
CERO	02
ACB	02

The Adventures of Bayou Billy is a game created by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989.

Plot

The game follows the story a man named Billy West. His very attractive, unbearably beautiful and insanely sexy girlfriend, Annabelle Lane has just gotten kidnapped by a gangster named Godfather Gordon who has taken her to his mansion in New Orleans and Billy is on a mission to save her.

Gameplay

The game is basically a side scrolling beat'em up game. There isnt much platforming except jumping to avoid falling in the swamp water. Although the swamp water is not fatal, it is the alligators that the player should worry about. There is not really any vertical platforming so the game is basically just ordinary side scrolling action rather then alot of vertical movement for the screen. Weapons include a Handgun, a Knife, and a few others so kinds of attacks can vary. There are also shooting sections. These use the NES Zapper and are replaced by the Wii Remote in the Virtual Console release.

Trivia

• Bayou Billy received some amount of exposure on the Nintendo-themed animated TV series, Captain N: The Game Master where Bayou Billy (modeled somewhat like Dundee Michael "Crocodile" Dundee) appears in an episode titled "How's Bayou", voiced by Garry Chalk. Playing on the difficulty of its real world counterpart, Bayou Billy was said to be the one game even Kevin Keene was unable to conquer yet. Mother Brain had Dr. Wily build a robot cat to have Duke lead Kevin to Bayou Billy's world. Kevin ended up meeting Bayou Billy where he learned some tricks from him.
• Archie Comics published a comic book series based on The Adventures of Bayou Billy written by Rich Margopoulos and illustrated by Amanda Conner, which lasted five bi-monthly issues dated from September 1989 to June 1990.
• The game is mentioned in the Strong Bad Email bedtime story in the "Cheat's Cheatventures in Moses Malone Land" segment as being disapproved by Moses Malone, who hopes the Cheat saved the receipt.
• The game was the subject of an Angry Video Game Nerd episode.

External links

• The Adventures of Bayou Billy at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The Adventures of Bayou Billy at GameFAQs
• The Adventures of Bayou Billy at MobyGames