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DJ Boy (Video Game)
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DJ Boy is a series of two video games developed Kaneko between 1989-1992 in the side-scrolling Beat 'em Up genre. Both games are based around The Golden Age of Hip Hop culture in the USA during the late Eighties and early Nineties. Both games also have Excuse Plots, though the original DJ Boy's story differed depending on which platform you were on.In the original arcade version, Bob and his friend Tom are just breakdancing to the sounds of their boombox when a gang of thieves (known as the Dark Knights in the home versions) attack them and rob them of their boombox. The two teenagers then chase the thieves across their city to get their boombox back, while fighting all kinds of wacky enemies along the way.The Sega Genesis version has a different story entirely: Donald J. Boy (really just Bob with a new name), a popular breakdancer and fighter, is preparing to enter a fight-race known as "Rollergame" in Cigaretch City, located on the outskirts of New York City. However, the Dark Knights want him out of the competition, and kidnap his girlfriend Maria. Their leader then offers an ultimatum: Either leave the Rollergame, or never see Maria again. DJ Boy, undaunted, must beat the Rollergame and save Maria all in one go.Published by Sega for arcades in Japan and on the Genesis internationally, and by Sammy in North America,note Fifteen years before Sega and Sammy had merged into SegaSammy Holdings DJ Boy was quickly Bowdlerized in North America, and for very good reason: the game had an insane amount of racial caricatures, with one memorable one being "Big Mamma": An overweight black woman with extremely dark skin and big red lips, resembling both the Mammy and Blackface caricatures. The North American arcade and Genesis ports significantly lightened her skin to make it look less obvious she was a blackface sterotype. The arcade version also featured Wolfman Jack or Demon Kogure as the narrator, depending on your region.In 1992, Kaneko released B.Rap Boys as a sequel to DJ Boy. Although it's not a direct sequel (neither Bob, Tom or Donald appear), it takes place in the same universe, and features a similar plot to the console port of DJ Boy: The protagonist(s) is on his way to fight the champion of "Death Match", and ends up fighting rival gangs on the way there. B.Rap Boys also ratchets up the wackiness and already brutal difficulty of DJ Boy to a much higher level. It was also notable for being one of the first video games to have an entirely lyricized (and licensed!) hip hop soundtrack, with some of the songs being slight remixes of tracks performed by the early 90s rap group 3 Stories High, from their Japanese album release Famous Last Words.While the games have mostly fallen into obscurity, DJ Boy is often considered to be the Spiritual Ancestor to both the Streets of Rage and Jet Set Radio video games. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Village People and Michael Jackson expies appear in the Arcade version, but were removed from the Genesis port. | |
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Elevator Action Sequence | |
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Elevator Action Sequence: B. Rap Boys offers up a variation of the classic beat 'em up cliche: One particular level largely takes place inside a construction site, and the protagonists get ambushed on a platform being carried by a crane. And instead of simply going up, the crane moves up, down, right and left in order for more enemies to jump on the platform and fight you. | |
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Ambiguously Brown: DJ Boy is white in all promotional material, but his in-game sprite is more racially ambiguous, due to his tan color. | |
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Palette Swap | |
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Palette Swap: All over the shop, from the enemies to Bob and Tom from the first game. And that's not even getting into the bosses... | |
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Interesting Situation Duel: You have no idea. DJ Boy had it's share of quirky encounters, but B. Rap Boys is in it's own league. From a roller coaster sequence, to fighting lions and giant robots, it's one crazy scenario after another until you get to the final boss. | |
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Happy Dance: All characters will dance in victory after clearing a level. | |
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Title Scream | |
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Title Scream: Growled loudly by the one and only Wolfman Jack. | |
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No Fair Cheating | |
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No Fair Cheating: The game will lock out any other players from joining once you approach the final boss, likely to prevent the player from using a character with full health and lives. If cheats are enabled via an emulator such as MAME, the game will deactivate said cheats near the end of the game. | |
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Dual Boss | |
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Dual Boss: The arcade version likes these; Stage 3 has you fighting two members of a band while a third gives support from the back, Stage 4 has you fighting two of the first midboss (later identified in the Genesis version as Heavy Metal Tony), and the final boss encounter is Big Mamma and her twin. The Genesis version isn't completely bereft of these either, though its only dual-boss encounter are the clown robots at the end of Stage 3 (and they don't show up quite simultaneously). They're still a dual boss during the later Boss Rush. | |
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Boss Rush | |
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Boss Rush: As you go through the final stage, some of the past bosses and mini bosses will show up to fight you again. | |
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Nintendo Hard: Not playing on Easy in DJ Boy ramps up the difficulty to ridiculous levels. B.Rap Boys is hard from the get go, as all of your opponents have way more health than you, and can empty half of your lifebar with only a handful of attacks. | |
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Dance Battler | |
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Dance Battler: All of the protagonists fall under Type 2: They're all highly skilled and popular breakdancers, but have no problem kicking your ass six ways to Sunday if you get in their faces. And on rollerblades, no less. | |
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"YEAH!" Shot: Done after the defeat of a stage boss, with the screen freezing for a moment and the caption "We Did It!" popping up. It's actually pretty humorous. | |
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Shared Universe | |
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Shared Universe: DJ Boy and B.Rap Boys take place in the same continuity, though none of the characters from either game have interacted with each other. | |
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Difficulty by Region: While the Japanese and American versions of the Genesis port are wildly different to the point where it's not very clear which is the harder game in general, there tend to be more stage hazards in the American version, BUT, you automatically get a max health increase at the end of the first three stages in the American version whereas the same increase is a buyable item in the Japanese version. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: While DJ Boy had it's share of "out-there" moments, B.Rap Boys takes street fighting to a whole different level. Fighting in giant mech suits, dodging exploding watermelons, and a roller coaster fight sequence nearly takes it into widget territory. | |
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Bowdlerized | |
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Bowdlerized: The North American Genesis release drastically changed Big Mamma's skin tone so she would look less like a Mammy and blackface stereotype. Strangely, this may be due to how she's actually MUCH darker-skinned in the Japanese version of the Genesis port than she is in the arcade version (though her palette-swapped twin in the arcade's "final boss" fight DOES have a similar skin tone). | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Averted in the Genesis version, where the final boss is Big Mamma again, except unlike the arcade version, she's been taking some lessons in martial arts and ninjitsu since you last met and dresses the part, and you get an actual (if short) ending where DJ Boy successfully rescues his girlfriend. | |
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Hitbox Dissonance | |
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Hitbox Dissonance: if you're not parallel with the enemy you're trying to attack, you're gonna end up hitting thin air. This, of course, doesn't apply to the A.I. | |
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Rollerblade Good | |
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Rollerblade Good: The main characers' mode of transportation, as well as most of the enemies. B.Rap Boys added bicycles and skateboards to the mix. | |
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Five-Token Band | |
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Five-Token Band: Three, but it still works. The main characters are White, Latino, and Black. | |
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Shout-Out: The characters' dancing outfits are reminiscent of MC Hammer's style of wear. Makes sense, since Hammer's style was still popular at the time. Two recurring high-level mooks have the familiar overalls and color schemes of Mario and Luigi, and tend to show up together. | |
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Mirror Boss | |
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Mirror Boss: Stage 4 in the Genesis port ends with you fighting a blue-clad clone of yourself, who appropriately shares all of your moves. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
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Adaptation Name Change: Bob's name was changed to Donald J. Boy for the Genesis port. | |
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There Can Be Only One | |
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There Can Be Only One: If played on multi-player and two or all three reach the final boss. The game forces you to fight the others since, well, the point of the story is to reach the Champion of "Death Match" and fight him solo. And the victor only gets one shot at it, no continues. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: The arcade version just... stops after five stages. There's not even a unique final boss in the last level, you just fight Big Mamma again (as well as her palette-swapped twin), and that's it. Game Over, A Winner Is You, and the boombox a.k.a. the reason Bob and Tom went on their adventure in the first place, goes completely unrecovered. Allegedly, the game designers ran out of time and couldn't think of a final boss and ending, so just slapped that together. Averted in the Genesis version, where the final boss is Big Mamma again, except unlike the arcade version, she's been taking some lessons in martial arts and ninjitsu since you last met and dresses the part, and you get an actual (if short) ending where DJ Boy successfully rescues his girlfriend. | |
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RPG Elements | |
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RPG Elements: A very light form in the Genesis port. Between stages, you're taken to a shop where you can buy items that restore health, increase your attack speed, movement speed, strength, and defense, or get an extra life. | |
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Chase Fight | |
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Chase Fight: Quite a few since the protagonists all fight on roller blades. DJ Boy had a few sequences of this but B.Rap Boys took it even further with sequences that had down hill slopes in a few stages which in turn amped up the speed. Not to mention a few stages where bulls suddenly come rushing into the fray. | |
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Video-Game Lives | |
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Video-Game Lives: Unusually, while the arcade version gives you the typical set of lives, in the Genesis port, you only get one (unless you buy one in the shop for 1,000 coins, and even then, you can only hold onto one such item at a time). | |
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