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Have you ever played a game that made you so angry, the only thing that could suppress your rage was smashing the holy hell out of your NES controller? If so, you most likely should steer clear of Mr. Bayou Billy.

After recently getting my ass handed to me on the harder levels of Earth Defense Force 2017, I tried to think of the most frustrating game I have ever played. After some deliberation (and a delicious steak), I decided this Konami "classic" was tops on my list. So I found my old cartridge and loaded it up. I mean, maybe it was just so hard because the last time I played it I was still wearing TMNT sweatpants. Boy was I wrong.

First of all, just look at that box art. It's so inviting. Some fat guy kidnapped Billy's girlfriend, and now he is going to get the holly hell stabbed out of him with a 3-foot-long knife. Look's pretty sweet. Little does the player know that said fatty in the hat has employed the most devastating of all video game villains. That's right, you guessed it...alligators.

Now, ok, alligators are pretty bad ass, and I can see them being a tough fight, even for Billy. But does Konami wait until you build up your skills a bit and thenthrow them at you in the last stage? Nope. 30 seconds after starting the game, alligators rape you to death in a pond. Awesome. Try as I might, those alligators stopped me from ever progressing further than the first stage. I never even knew this game had driving and light gun stages until I saw a video of them years later.

So in retrospect, Bayou Billy is a giant twat who wears a cowboy hat.


Thanks Billy.