History VideoGame / DJBoy

* DenserAndWackier: While ''DJ Boy'' had it's share of "out-there" moments, ''B.Rap Boys'' takes street fighting to a whole different level, featuring fighting in giant mech suits, dodging exploding watermelons, and a roller coaster fight sequence.

* InterestingSituationDuel: ''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.

* DenserAndWackier: 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 [[WidgetSeries widget]] territory.

** Two recurring high-level mooks have the familiar overalls and color schemes of [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]], and tend to show up together.

* MirrorMatch: Stage 4 in the Genesis port ends with you fighting a blue-clad clone of yourself, who appropriately shares all of your moves.

* NoEnding: 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, AWinnerIsYou. 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, [[TookALevelInBadass 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.

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 [[NintendoHard already brutal difficulty]] of ''DJ Boy'' [[UpToEleven 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 [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japanese]] album release ''Famous Last Words''.

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* DifficultySpike: The American Genesis port's Stage 2. You've only got 6 health blocks max, and it's a long stage that has multiple stage hazards including limited visibility sections, random cannonballs rolling at you (including during a significant chunk of the boss fight), and oil slicks - of which ONLY the oil slicks are present in the Japanese version, mind you - and you're introduced to Harry and Hatch, who deal way more damage per hit than most of the other enemies. If you're playing on Normal (which doubles the enemies' power and HP) and you didn't have enough money from the previous stage to buy either the defense or strength power-up, you're basically screwed from the start. Beyond this point, you'll be powered-up enough to where nothing's this hard ever again.

* NoEnding: The arcade version just... ends. There's not even a 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, AWinnerIsYou. Allegedly, the game designers ran out of time and couldn't think of a final boss and ending, so just slapped that together.

** Two recurring bosses have the familiar overalls color scheme of [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi]].

* NintendoHard: Playing on any difficulty but 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.
* PaletteSwap: All over the shop, from the enemies to Bob and Tim from the first game. And that's not even getting into the bosses...

* {{Bowdlerized}}: The North American releases drastically changed Big Mamma's skin tone so she would look less like a Mammy and blackface stereotype.

* NoEnding: The arcade version just... ends. There's not even a final boss in the last level, you just fight Big Mamma again and that's it. Game Over, AWinnerIsYou. Allegedly, the game designers ran out of time and couldn't think of a final boss and ending, so just slapped that together.

''DJ Boy'' is a series of two video games developed Kaneko between 1989-1992 in the side-scrolling BeatEmUp genre. Both games are based around UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop culture in the USA during the late Eighties and early Nineties. Both games also have [[ExcusePlot Excuse Plots]], though the original ''DJ Boy'''s story differed depending on which platform you were on.

* InterestingSituationDuel: ''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.

* ElevatorActionSequence: *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.

* InterestingSituationDuel: *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.

* ShoutOut:

* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: 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. [[AllOrNothing And the victor only gets one shot at it, no continues.]]

* ChaseBattle: 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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* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: If played on mult-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.

* ShoutOut: The characters' dancing outfits are reminiscent of Music/MCHammer's style of wear. Makes sense, since Hammer's style was still popular at the time.

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 of ''DJ boy'' [[UpToEleven 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 [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japanese]] album release ''Famous Last Words''.

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[[/note]] ''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 and 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 Creator/WolfmanJack or [[Music/SeikimaII 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 of ''DJ boy'' [[UpToEleven 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 supposedly being done by GZA and Rakewon, pre-Music/WuTangClan.

* PaletteSwap: All over the shop, from the enemies to Bob and Tim from the first game.