Hard times in New Orleans Town: The Adventures of Bayou Billy | NES Works 129

I regret to announce that the VHS camcorder I use for my hosting segments (better known as my "VHS filter" to people who have no idea what they're talking about) has given up the ghost. I'm looking into options for a replacement, for the time being, you'll have to put up my mug in 4K. Cool fact: You don't need to comment on it!

I blame Bayou Billy, a game that wants to ruin everybody's day. I survived making this video, in part because I liberally applied cheat codes, but clearly my video camera did not. That's a shame, because there's a lot to admire technically about this game, and its music absolutely rips, but the utterly ridiculous way that Konami rebalanced it for the U.S. overshadows pretty much every other detail about it. A new era of games made vastly more difficult for their American release has begun...

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NES footage captured from Analogue Nt Mini. Video upscaled to 4K with RetroTink 4X and 720p with xRGB Mini Framemeister.