17:28 "This is a trick that I figured out from playing the game for a while." Well this is a trick that I learned simply from living in Louisiana for a few years.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is a famous French artist, so Toulouse-le Attack sounds like a pun based on his name.

"Thee abventurs of Byoo Beely!" Gets me right in the heartstrings every time.

Truly a game master. Not even Captain N could beat this one. (Its canon, look it up.)

In Mad City on Famicom, Gordon will start to frown at the end of his messages when you get to shooting stage in New Orleans like he is becoming afraid Billy is getting too close despite the army Gordon has sent after him. As shown here, Gordon always smiles at the end of the messages like he knows this is the NES version where everything is more difficult and he can win at anytime because of it.

8:46 Toulouse L'Attack is a groanworthy pun on (Henri de) Toulouse-Lautrec, the French painter.

Very rarely do I watch game playthroughs with commentary; most narrators like to just hear themselves talk. Your's though; I look forward to Saturdays! You provide very direct, thorough explanations on how to get the job done... and I dig the discussion before gameplay of its history. Oh, and I can finally beat some of these games. Don't change a damn thing, and thank you!

Going to keep saying this every week until it happens.. Guardian Legend!!! Seriously keep the great content coming.

Toulouse- Lautrec was a french post-Impressionist painter, Lau-Attack (or whatever) is probably a reference to him, and someone in the development team went to art school or something.

That opening level tune might be the funkiest NES music ever.

The Captain N episode convinced me that this game had swam monsters. ANYWAY, I used this game in an MA-level history class to point out the various ways Louisiana is viewed in pop culture.

The original Japanese version (Mad City) also had a couple of alternate endings. In that version, you could still control Billy when Annabelle runs to you, and your actions determine the ending. In fact, if you actively avoid her for a minute or two, you get the "bad" ending where she just complains that you didn't really come to save her and then the credits roll with no one standing the arch.

WTF?!? Bayou Billy?!? INCREDIBLE! 😮This game is ridiculous hard! You are the man, MAD RESPECT!!!!! Nobody is on your level!!! “Great job mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the Barbie!”

I'm glad that ol' bayou Billy West found a second career as a renowned voice actor.

"The difficulty could have been too much for them." It definitely was.

Oh my God I remember getting this game a very long time ago when I was eight years old and I could never beat it because it was so difficult. Thank you so much for this video… All of your videos are just amazing and I like watching them and listening to them while I’m working from home.

Another great addition, Saturday mornings are back. With the various levels and indepth back story, this should get a modern upgrade!

YCBVG shows us how to beat Battletoads and Bayou Billy? This channel is now legendary

Watching this video makes me wish Konami would release an NES compilation that would include this and a bunch of other titles that aren't Castlevania or Contra. They had so many great games back in the day.

Konami with all the good pun names in this era. Too bad they raised the difficulty so high; this easily could have been a bigger deal if people could finish more than three stages. Great video as always!

I always love it when a new character is treated as if he's already part of a pre-existing franchise we're all familiar with. Bayou Billy is one. Beetlejuice is another.

34:13 That was clutch and had me on the edge of my seat.

I guess I never really thought about it as a kid, but now I realize how absurd it is that you drive at 180mph lol

I love Saturday mornings now! I'd love to eventually see Rolling Thunder!

Love Saturday mornings thanks to UCBVG!

I remember this being one of my favorite games as a kid, and haven't heard a single mention of it in my life. Props to you boss.

Nice that you mentioned Lone Ranger. That game was awesome, please do a video about that game.

My absolute favorite nes game. I loved Dundee so this felt like a video game similar to it even though it wasn't. Sure its hard as hell, but that's the fun of it. I also remember how different of a game it was when it went from beat em up to rail shooter to racing game. I thought was badass when it first came out. By the way, a lot if not all of the enemies are named after famous French people. Toulouse L'Attack is named after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec who was a famous French painter that lived in the Moulin Rouge. Most wouldn't know that except the older people the game was targeting I guess.

I really really love that you play all the games that the AVGN did a episode on and just hated yet u make them so enjoyable to watch played and beaten like they are just great enjoyable games that takes a lot of skill right there I salute you sir lol

Oh man! I’ve owned this since it first came out. So difficult! It’s nice to see what happens last level 2 haha

Dude I loved this game back in my youth. I could beat it on one life after a few weeks of torture and memorization. I remember being astounded at the voice saying the title!

Dude you by far have my favorite KZfaq channel. Keep up the great content bro!!🤟🏽

As a kid, only ever made it past the second driving stage once - and here you are making it look easy. Lots of respect for your ability! Thank you for playing through this one!

my new favorite channel. it's incredibly satisfying to see how to beat these games that have frustrated me since I was a kid!

I love how you explain the details behind the esoteric systems that govern these old games. Another great one!

You published this video a few hours after I got my copy of this game and I saw this right as I was wanting this exact video!

wow i remember this game. your game choice is very unique for these videos. Keep up the good work hope your channel grows quickly!

This is one of those games that was so hard as a kid I just couldn't get into it. Never got past the 3rd level I think

55:32 "Lonely Kambe" is a name that probably resonated with the people who won this game in the 80s and 90s.

Got this game for Christmas one year, maybe '90 or '91. Played it until I beat it.. this game is for real on the difficulty! Was so excited to see you do this one, great job UCBVG! I had no idea about the bonuses!!! That would've helped so much.... oh well, about 30 years too late, not interesting in revisiting this one lol

Very informative breakdown of the origin of this game and its differences compared to the original Mad City Famicom version! Thank you for putting this together :). Referencing the Archie comic book was a nice touch hahaha! Excellent strategies as always! Keep it up and NEVER give up! I have a lot of history with this game, since I was literally stuck with it as a kid. Back in 1991, I had lent P.O.W. (NES), which was my favorite video game at the time, to a friend for The Adventures of Bayou Billy. He lent it to another friend who somehow lost it (bullsheet!) and told me that I could keep his game, in order to make up for my loss. Rather than putting up a fuss, I accepted my destiny and struggled with The Adventures of Bayou Billy throughout my youth. While it was far too difficult for me to finish as a child, mostly because of the car levels, I eventually did so an adult in the year 2000. However, that was not enough! Oh no, it was personal! I made it my mission to TERMINATE this game in every possible way hahaha! Not everyone is aware of this, but after beating the game the first time around and "The End" message appears (what is that voice even saying anyway? Sound like "highffff" with a bunch of static hahaha!), a second quest can be challenged by pressing Start here. There will be more enemies and they will take more damage than before. The same thing will happen after beating the game for a second time in a row, as this will unlock a third, more challenging quest. However, the game does not get any harder afterwards and will remain on the third quest difficulty level, until the player decides to stop playing. Mad City was likely billed as a "TRIPLE HARD ACTION GAME" (as seen in its commercial) for this very reason, as it also has three difficulty quests, if played and beaten consecutively. I figured this out from the former world record speedrunner of The Adventures of Bayou Billy, by the name of Tom Votava. He was able to max out the game's score by beating it over and over again during the same sitting, as the score will carry over, in the same Konami tradition as seen in other games such as Castlevania and Contra. I went on to challenge and beat Tom Votava's points run, along with his speedrun, as I figured out that entering the final boss battle with Rocky & Rocco, without a bulletproof vest or weapon, reduces the amount of punishment that they will be able to absorb, which Tom did not realize (and no one else at that particular time either). I'm guessing that the game did this to even out the odds, surprisingly enough! The only reason why I even made this discovery, was because I put myself through a no items no death challenge back in 2009, as seen below: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/huCUpdFp25q5dWg.html

This channel makes me wanna go back and play NES games I never gave a second thought to or even heard of. Thanks!

Your videos are well done! Total power move at the end of the second driving level! Keep up the great content

This game was the bane of my existence my whole childhood. You have restored my faith in knowing I can finally beat it!

After years of having this game, I finally was able to beat this tough game this morning. Thank you!

Oh man! I tried sooo hard to beat this game back in the day. I was probably 8 or 9 and could never make it further than the driving level

Awesome video! I congratulate you for taking on the challenge of this game. I couldn’t even get past the first stage without quitting! 😂 Another great retro title to conquer.

Man, I wish I knew all these tips and tricks when I was a kid. I think I made it through the swamp/water area like twice and then died instantly on the next level. Keep up the good work my dude!!

Keep pumping them out!! My attention span is of a 🐿 but your videos are relaxing to watch while reminiscing of my childhood..

It’s nice to see Billy West is still doing well after all these years. He does the voice of Stimpy

I dig it! Your videos help me decompress and bring back a lot of forgotten memories. Thx!

Awesome to see this one covered. Still want to go back and beat this. Very entertaining video. Look forward to trying out some of these strats whenever I get to it.

Dude, the fact that you actually have the physical cartridges of all these classic NES hits after all these years, shows you are a man of eclectic good taste!

AMAZING! I've personally beaten most of the hardest NES games out there (Battletoads, Ghosts 'n Goblins, the Ninja Gaiden trilogy, etc.) but Bayou Billy ate my lunch as a kid and it remains unsolved for this old gamer. And you just WRECKED it. Utterly and completely destroyed it! Well done! :) You give me a lot of hope and honestly, I feel like giving it another try. Love the humor too! 42:40 made me laugh so hard! THANKS for the whip Gordon! ;)

I dont even know how I found your channel recently but you had my sub without even having to try. Love your content bro and keep up the damn good work. Your channel definitely going places 👍👍

Ha, the prom nightmare comment was great. I love all the little ponderings in your videos.

Glad to see you finally get to this one because, and I don't care what people think, this is my favorite NES game. Full stop. I never got the same joy and experience from another cart.

Another jem my man...love your setup and style! Second to none!

One of Konami's greatest Soundtracks on the NES next to Contra and Mission Impossible and TMNT

Man your videos are one of the only things that helps me come down from an anxiety attack. Thanks for doing these videos

Happy to come across your Channel ! Now I can finish a game I traded for (remember those stores ?)over 30 years ago 😬 Looking forward to seeing many more of these quality videos 👍

This game was so hard! I'm so happy you played this!! Thanks very much!!

Man! I am very impressed! My younger brother and I knew about the practice trick, and it got us past stage 1 when we were little. But damn we still couldnt beat this game! Thank you sir!

You missed a very special detail regarding the *Blackie Blue* enemies: their main movement pattern is that they are always aiming to line themselves up perfectly with you, before advancing towards you, and then getting close enough to begin their beatdown upon you. If their sprites aren't aligned with yours, they stop for a bit, and then they try to vertically move into getting lined up with you again. What if you whip a Blackie Blue once (and from a great distance), quickly move slightly up or down and both at an angle away from him, he tries to re-align with you, and repeat the process until the guy falls over from ironically being beaten black and blue? I say you could, though it's obviously trickier to pull off when you have to deal with more than one of these guys. Use this strategy to shorten the damage you take from them.

Love the channel. I finally beat Nightmare on Elm Street thanks to you, Now Bayou Billy

I'm guessing that Toulouse L'Attack is an obscure reference to the French artist Toulouse Lautrec. Particularly considering that they have Jacques Killsteau

Great explanations, by the way.... your dog is AWESOME!!!

Even Captain N couldn't finish this one. Well done!

I can't wait to sit down and watch this. Listening while breakfast cooks. You're a fantastically consistent content creator UCBVG. Your stuff is unique. It's not a speed run, it's not a let's play or long play. These videos are their own wonderful thing. Also when are you going to do Clash At Demonhead? It's a great proto-metroidvania like Rygar.

Even with this guide, this game is brutal to get through, but it worked! I finally managed to get a good run going and finish the freaking game. Thanks a lot for your videos!

Once again, great job. I look forward to every Saturday morning due to your videos!

My friend, you have by far the best channel on KZfaq.

This was one of the first games I ever got as a kid. I absolutely loved this one, but never finished it. I didn't even know there where all the different kinds of levels because I never made it that far 🤣

I look forward to these every Saturday.Thank u

You did one on Bayou Billy! Man, you’re awesome!

the FAMICOM light gun and the KONAMI one were both modeled on the S&W revolver, and the NES lightgun can be Hacked to FAST fire , by using TWO hands, one to hold the barrel for AIM, and the 2nd hand to jiggle the trigger, to shoot FAST.

You are hitting all of my favorite games! Keeping my fingers crossed Milon's Secret Castle is in our future!

Saturday doesn't start until I learn to beat a video game. Thank God for this channel.

I didn't even know this game existed, let alone play it or beat it. Kudos on finding this rarity and doing such thorough work showing it off!

Really dig your walkthroughs they are very informative and helpful👍

This brings back alot of memories. Can't remember if I beat it.... Thanks for the great video

I've been waiting for you to do this title since I found your channel!

Finished this game as a kid. I remember whrn my dad came home one night and gave me this game for the famicom. So much nostalgia

Thanks for taking a look at this game! I totally forgot about it! It would be really cool if you took a look at “Renegade”. I figured out how to beat it when I was a kid, but damn if that game doesn’t get convoluted at the end. I was thinking it might be endless until I figured it out

The thing that caught my funny bone was the jeep going 180mph. Great video

Great video, I loved this game when I was younger.

The frogman enemy, Jaque Killstow, is of course a pun to french marine biologist Jaques Cousteau

you're way too good. this was one of those "rented from blockbuster once, never got past level 1" games for me lmao

Oh SHI-! You're covering this game? I'm hyped.

Wow!! I had this game as a kid!! This game was so hard tho!! I was only able to beat it once!! Great vid!!

I finished this one in both difficulty A & B (with zapper without zapper) (euro/us version) It was a very big challenge in my young age love this one so much Thanks for the video

I searched for this one on your website, I am getting ready to watch this, you are a humble guy but some of these games must of tested you making this videos lol friggin bayou billy

Fun! Liked this game a lot. Thanks! The pun on that first enemy is a play on French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My younger brother Phil, and only Phil, is the ONLY person i know who beat this game back in the way day. Thing is, he was never into games like i am. But he did it. That Bourbon street fight was just brutal. A M rated, whimsical Bayou Billy remake needs to happen for the old timers.

This game was a challenge when I was a kid but I did finally beat it. Like double dragon, battletoads, and TMNT. Simons Quest was a challenge too, hardest Castlevania in my opinion.

The shooting stages always reminded me of Gotcha!

I rented this game when it first came out in a 1989 many times and could never get the past the first stage. Had no idea until today that there were driving and shooting levels! Being a kid during the NES days were good times

I own this game and some years ago I dedicated like a week to beating it. One of the gut-wrenchingly hardest games I ever played. But I did it. And it was an awesome feeling.

"The Adventures of Bayou Billy tells the story of Billy West, the legendary voice actor from Futurama & Ren and Stimpy."

The pun is for Toulouse-Lautrec, a famous french artist. Fantastic video, as usual : )))