The Adventures of Bayou Billy AKA Mad City is a multi-genre action game with a Southern bayou theme. The story is typical, your girlfriend has been kidnapped by a rich villain, and you must travel to his mansion beating up his gang of thugs in your attempt to get her back.

Although the game sported plenty of exciting ideas like mixing fighting, driving, and shooting into one big action game, it kind of fell on its face with poor game play. Basically, the game was unbelievably difficult because established game mechanics didn't fit. Even if you were good at platform fighter games, you would still get wasted in the fighting parts. The shooting sections were pretty cool, but using the Zapper was foolish and trying to move the super sensitive crosshairs with the controller took a lot of practice. The driving section was easier to control, but also kind of boring with only a few variations throughout the game. All that aside, the game does keep you coming back for more, but even a pro will get frustrated and throw their controller at some point. The Famicom version of the game was quite a bit more balanced. The control was just as awkward, but a lot of the enemies were easier to defeat.

Like most of Konami's big named games, The Adventures of Bayou Billy had decent music for its day. While it is rarely ever listed on anyone's top ten list, it still has several nice upbeat tunes. The intro cut scene has a sound that you wouldn't expect form an NES game, and the ending music is one of the best. The game also features a surprisingly good vocalization of the title for 1988.

The titles and order of the music in the game is based off of the information from the internal sound test.

The composers were forced by Konami producers to use aliases. In order to give proper credit, we have contacted the Konami staff and they have given us the real names of the composers. Atsushi Fujio said that he did not compose the music but he arranged the music and data manipulation. Atsushi also gave us the real names of all of the composers. For some reason, Jun Funahashi's credited in the USA release, but not the Japanese release. His name replaces Kiyohiro Sada's.

Credits For Japanese Release:
Music and Sound: Kyouhei Sada
Music and Sound: Hidenori Maezawa credited as Michael Maezawa
Music and Sound: Atsushi Fujio credited as Damian Fujio
Music and Sound: Tsutomu Ogura credited as シンコン (shinkon) Ogura

Credits For USA Release:
Music and Sound: Jun Funahashi credited as Mad Jun
Music and Sound: Hidenori Maezawa credited as Michael Maezawa
Music and Sound: Atsushi Fujio credited as Mt. Fujio
Music and Sound: Tsutomu Ogura credited as New Cuple Ogura

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