My first ever video review of the hardest video game ever made: The Adventures of Bayou Billy for the NES.
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My first ever video review of the hardest video game ever made: The Adventures of Bayou Billy for the NES.
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A classic :)
this was the first review of yours I ever saw, and I still love watching it dude. I hope you review an other Nintendo game someday.
After some shit ton of reading no doubt you’ve had people make this comment but there is a much better version. THE ORIGINAL! The japanese version is far superior over this one being much easier and actually playable.
Japan and America have this conotation that whenever a game needs to come to America that the game has to be amplified in difficulty. Where this started who the fuck knows but the original version is called “Mad City”.
Check it out peoples!
I remember this game lol. one of the first games for the NES i ever played and for the rest of my life the themesong playing in the backround of this game will forever haunt me………
OH MY GOD DID HE JUST EAT THAT CHICKEN WHOLE?!?!?!?!? lolz
Why does Mr. Big do all this to Billy?……………..to be a dick?
I’m going to have to disagree. Bayou Billy is not the hardest game. Oh man does it look absolutely horrible. But try Dragon’s Lair for NES then get back to me. The first screen is ridiculously hard the first time you play. Eventually you get used to the really sluggish controls and the room becomes routine enough that you can beat it. But it’s tiny. The second room is huge and impossible by any convention I can think of and it just gets worse after that. Not to mention it forces you to play guessing games later on where if you pick the wrong door you have to start over. There’s also an optional treasure room that is completely impossible to beat and if you die you restart in the same room, so no matter how much you regret going in there in the first place, you just can’t get out. AVGN played it and gave up in the second room, but he didn’t even scratch the surface of how hard the game is and that’s saying a lot.
This is still funny even after all this time, you work ages impressively well, Id say probably as well if not better than wine!
I remember playing this game when I was very young, I really liked it you’re all so used to the -easy- games these days! Billy rocks!
sooo funny xD
Finally, a high quality video game review of Bayou Billy. A game that me and my brother suffered trauma from back in the day.
Though it wasn’t until we reached our late 20s that we discovered a secret about this game that very few were aware of. As you can see on the title screen there’s a “practice mode” which allows you to get your teeth cut on the three major different game modes in the game fighting, driving, shooting. At the time it was quite unusual for games to have any kind of a practice mode and in that way and many others Bayou Billy was an innovator. But since it was so unusual when we were kids we really didn’t pay too much attention to it, I believe we tried it once and that was it. We probably believed it was an endless practice session and we much prefer it to get our practice playing through the actual game.
Here lies another innovation to gaming that Bayou Billy had “lockables” one day we dusted it off at a drinking party and decided that this would be the day we would finally beat that damn game. Due to some drunken bumbling my brother selected the practice mode instead of the game mode and went ahead and play the fighting mode to get some practice, we were surprised that it actually finished and gave us a text message at the end of it saying “here’s some extra health in case you’re in a pinch” it turns out that all three practice modes had unlockable bonuses for the actual game. The fighting gave you more health like I mentioned, the driving gave you extra gas, and the shooting gave you extra bullets.
Having these bonuses completely changed the difficulty curve and allowed us to finally beat Bayou Billy for the first time completely legit, it almost kind of made it easy…well almost.
I had to share that with anyone else who have suffered severe aggravated trauma due to Billy. The answer was there right in front of us all the time, where the FUCK were you in Nintendo power?
a classic review ;) , gotta love it :)
Shittyer then a morman prom
You know it’s a bad sign when even the actor in the commercial can’t even beat the gators.
Actually, someone has beaten the game fairly. I speak of the guy from NES Tips, who beats most of the hardest NES games pretty easily, even the dreaded Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Here is a link to his Bayou Billy vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTBuWTYmXxo&feature=PlayList&p=4E6EC21A1019432B&playnext=1&index=19
I love you Spoony. I checked this out on youtube, and they pulled the for the whole second half just because they’re overly paranoid that your 30 seconds of delieverence music isn’t fully covered by fairness law. I salute your choice to leave youtube in favor of a superior site.
They’re not Apaches, they’re AH-1 Cobras. By the way, why don’t you review another classic game? Like, the one I’m featured in.
[Note, the person actually posting this was laughing so hard, he actually fell over in his chair.]
Keep up the great work, Spoony. You’re a hero.. just don’t become “an hero.”
Anyone know what the intro song to these older spoony vids is?
You mentioned persons at the beginning of the video. I recognised the AVGN, but who is the other one? :-)
Armake21. He used to be on YouTube (as nicotinealien), but his account was suspended or something. Not sure if he’s still around.
Not sure if your claim that this is the hardest game ever holds up Spoony, but it’s a damn pain in the ass.
Marcus/Armake21 is returning to Youtube March 18
Hey, Spoony, you like Bayou Billy’s soundtrack, check out the OC Remix version of the main theme.
Website is a link to a download.
i beat this game without game genie or emulator. i am better then god himself.
Everytime I see it it gets better. What’s the song at the beginning of the vid?
Here my question: Are you someone with problems with Mormons, I am one and the comment about the mormon prom thing. i does not judge you for that comment, but i only ask that judge us. We are not like what your hear most often on tv.
You should know that are two other religious groups that call themselves LDS (By the way, i would like that if you talk about the Salt Lake city Church, PLEASE say either LDS That the real term that people should use so we do not get confused with the others groups) There is a groups that splitted from our church after the Prophet Joseph Smith. If i remember well, this groups is called The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Days Saints Reform something. the church based in Salt Lake City is The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Days Saints. There is a other group that i do not know that well, The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Days Saints Fundamentalist something. The Church i am part of is not like these groups. If someone want to discuss more about this, send me a email at subono.jones@hotmail.com
(I will not read hate mails or anything like that, what i am trying to do is to try to make people understand how the real LDS are.
I do not judge you, so don’t judge me. <—- My signature
Liar.
You will dance again.
Bayou Billy was one hard game, no doubt about it, but the hardest game ever? No, definitley not. Ive beaten Bayou Billy the right way, no cheats, no emulator… however, Dragon’s Lair for the NES is a different story. That game is freakin ridiculous. I’d challenge you to play it and say Bayou Billy is harder :)
I have a joke video on what a Bayou Billy game might if Konami decided to launch one today… see link below:
http://luismorenonet.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-metal-gear-new-bayou-billy-video.html
Whats the song at the beginning of this video called? Thanks.
Shittier than a Mormon prom is not a judgement on Mormons, LDS, none of that. It’s a judgement on LDS church dances; which certainly do suck. I am ex-LDS myself, so I know. Every dance I went to had “The Boot Scootin’ Boogy” AND “The Hokey Pokey”. Every single one. The frikkin’ Boot Scoot! Noah is correct and fair in his judgement of Mormon Prom.
I remember this game! We had a NES rip-off console called Ziliton and I used to play this.
Beat a turkey out of the guy. Lol. And yet, it’s like that for games (one that comes to mind, Tekken 3)…
Awesome video Spoony. Hey, did anyone notice at around 2:30-3:00 that it looks like you’re fighting billy and jimmy lee from double dragon? Well, except for how they both have black hair.
… Did you get that game cartrige from Bookmans?
But how does it end?! What about Mr. Bigs? What happened to his big-boobed girlfriend?
I know an online game where in a shooting stage the enemies still shoot when paused. to find it look up Jak 3 online
OH GOOD LORD the music to this damn game has been stuck in my head all day! but on the other hand i’m glad i found you Spoony you have made me laugh so much over the past few days, make more videos!
Love you xxx
The Adventures of Dino Riki was much harder, in my opinion.
But I totally remember this game too. I don’t think I ever got as far as you did in the video at all. I think the first level was too intense for my little hands and brains. XD
You know what you could do with 3$.You could buy a bullet and hit it with a hammer while it’s pointing at you.
holy crap. you’re so right about that “we spent the money (or our parents did) and we were going to finish this damn game if it killed us” thing. there was no way to check reviews (thank god we have people like you now, eh? where were you when i bought sewer shark? oh god…) and no way to return or trade them in for something that hurt less and by god we were gonna play them dammit!
I never played bayou billy (but i do remember the recockulous commercials…NES had a lot of memorably horrible commercials with live actors hamming it up and yes, i think you’re right, against all odds, captain lou albano dressed like mario sold more than one cartridge) but i had my own personal vendetta shitfest. Darkman for the NES. oh god please do a review of that bag of three color dog vomit. I would LOVE to hear you tear that game a new pixelated asshole…even thought the shitful hit detection probably wouldn’t let you…
I mean seriously, it was HORRIBLE. i never beat it but tried like crazy. even though the graphics were colored like a retarded hippie ty-dye pallate. there were excruciating jump puzzles and and you only spent like 1 (maybe two never got far enough to be sure) as darkman himself!!! I mean he didn’t look so much like darkman as he did the michelin man in a micheal jackson’s moonwalker costume, but hey, he was better than the fatass in the pink suit, the hopping guy and dr friggin giggles!!!
AND after wasting probably hundreds of hours of my yound and stupid life failing to beat it, i recently saw the ending on youtube and realize now that if i HAD finally defeated that ass raping enima of a game, and that was all i got, i in all likely hood would have been america’s youngest spree killer
PLEASE review it spoony. PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEASE :)
and man, some people sure got pissed about that mormon comment. I have been a fan of yours for like, ever, and you say insensitive mean shit all the time, and out of that whole hilarious review someone managed to stick onto one mormon prom joke? wowsers…
Poor Bayou Billy has to fight billy and jimmy lee, a fat vegeta and the terminator…what didn’t have room for the alien queen?
I have to disagree with you I did beat this game as a kid. Gotta say it took years though.
Konami games had a weird grip on me too. Could. Not. Stop. Playing.
Great review. I got into a lot of your stuff on TGWTG.com including this one, but its still my favorite.
On an unrelated note, who are those two people you mentioned at the very beginning? I hear the AVGN and somethingsomething21. If they’re anything like Spoony’s reviews they should be good to watch. Could someone answer please?
This game would wipe the floor with me. I suck at the usual level of difficulty in video games, but this would be just impossible for me.
Great review, by the way.
man, i never beat this game. i think i hit a glitch and couldn’t get pass the level. i still have my original copy, lol.
Very funny review as they all are, but for everyone who said it CAN’T be done without cheating http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/blog/11209
That guy right there has an inhuman tolerance for pain but its entertaining to watch.
I find it funny that no one has mentioned the fact that your Jeep is going 180mph. I have never seen a Jeep or anything outside of a Ferarri or a Porsche go that fast. But this game does look really bad and really hard.
Excellent review. The only thing it was missing was what it was begging for… “Born on the Bayou” by CCR. :)
Nope.
Battletoads is harder then this. Or, at least as hard.