Stars for the description. I never would have thought of that until it was pointed out... and now I can't unthink of it.

Oh man, FUCK this game.

This is the only game to almost beat Battletoads for frustration. At least Battletoads was fun for the first two levels. Bayou Billy beat em up segments were jump kicking in place until the AI decided to walk into you every couple of minutes. 20 jump kicks later the enemy would finally die and you'd only have fifty more to go. Then you hit the fucking gators...

Shooting segments were an inferior Operation Wolf.

The driving segments I think were even worse than the Battletoads racing levels. In Battletoads, you died because you couldn't react fast enough but eventually you could get through it if you memorized everything. BB you died just because the controls were shitty and the graphics flickery.

Yes, but what about Sound Test Mode? How amazing was that though?

Woah I almost bought this game a few days ago.

They make this game look a lot more interesting than it really is. Man is it a stinker. I DO love the part when the voice says "The adventures of bayou billy"... totally classic. I also remember some big titties on the girlfriend character, but thats about it.

Such a terrible game. They could have just made it Castlevania with swamp people and were-gators.

When I got my NES for Christmas in 1988, my sister and I were given Mario/Duck Hunt, Defender of the Crown, Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle, and of course THIS fucking game.

To this day I flat out refuse to believe anyone actually beat it wihout a game genie or some kind of trainer. And I still have the NES controller that my sister chomped on in a fit of rage, her front tooth slicing off the rubber start button.

I remember Konami marketed the crap out of this game. Advertisements were EVERYWHERE for this fucking thing, on top of this damned commercial. Nintendo Power was pushing this turd hard onto readers, which is saying something considering they sold every piece of shit like it was the next Contra (a good Konami game).

Like many of you, I bought into the fucking hype and wasted my poor parent's hard earned money on this thing. Getting a video game was a treat, so I convinced myself that this game likely gets better in later stages.

Pro tip: it doesn't get better in later stages...

The first second of gameplay footage seems to support the first few seconds of live action footage.

Vice: Project Doom is basically a good version of Bayou Billy, but you can't use the light gun.

Also, the Japanese version of Bayou Billy has multiple endings, including one where he just avoids his girlfriend until she gives up on him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7fmcR7o2Hc

One of the most realistic games of the era, in that it accurately portrays one redneck's self-declared war on an entire criminal syndicate.

You want your girl back, and then you get beat to death with pipes and chains.

If you ever went to a kid's house for a sleepover and saw Bayou Billy in his collection, you knew you would just end up playing Mario Brothers all night.