In keeping with my promise made in the Gamescrap forums, we're going to see a lot of updates this month. However, to tide anyone looking for a new game over until the next update later this week, I offer you this little morsel of crap from everyone's favorite decade: the 80's.
So let's go back to 1989 where side-scrolling beat-'em-ups were taking up that awkward point between shooters and fighting games as the current flavor of the month. A game that would have otherwise been lost in the shuffle of the torrent of games saturating the arcades was a little gem known as DJ Boy. What set DJ Boy apart from other side scrollers was that everyone was on roller skates and its influences stemmed from hip-hop culture at the time. Just think of it as Breakers 2: Electric Boogaloo meets Final Fight. Anyways, the game received some notoriety that goes past the normal political incorrectness of white kids beating up on black kids. The worst offender would have to be the totally over exaggerated portrayal of African American women that would make any white guy planning on doing black face think twice.
Not only were these chicks stereotypes in every sense of the word, they also let loose with a deadly fart attack where they would hike up their dresses and send a cloud of green gas your way. Talk about classy. The arcade game was later ported to the Genesis where some of the more offensive material was taken out and these girth-ridden women were retooled to be less offensive. Instead of the fart attack, however, they ended up throwing donuts at you, which goes to show that the world will never learn true tolerance.
Of course, DJ Boy featured other more comical bosses...
...such as a gay stripper that deflated when you defeated him…
Or a 80’s hair band…take that CC Deville!
But aside from these mediocre little gems, DJ Boy was just another drawn out and repetitive beat-em-up that will only be remembered for one thing:
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