A brawler with 'tude! If only it also brought along compelling gameplay.
It's like watching an old animated movie and having a very average whatever time with it, but then out of nowhere they show the most racist caricature you have ever seen in your life and that ends up being the only thing you remember it for.
It's a pseudo-auto-scrolling beat-'em-up on roller skates from 1989, themed around a third-rate Japanese arcade developer's idea of East Coast hip hop. So yeah, it controls great and there's nothing culturally offensive about it at all.
The most auto-scroller game of all time. Even your unconscious body never stops scrollin’
DJ Boy is a rather...archaic beatemup, to put it nicely. If you want to beat the tar out of racial caricatures and other gross stereotypes then this is for you. There's really nothing else of note even, it's just a very average game that happens to be very dated. Why do the first and last bosses have those big eyes and wide red lips? Where did that whole thing even come from? Have you never seen a black person before?
The Genesis version includes art at the end of levels, so you get to see the stark contast between a rather cutesy-looking DJ and a few of the aforementioned gross stereotypes (for example, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVAdECgWUAI34_s?format=png&name=900x900). It's very weird and unpleasant. Did people even laugh at this back then?
The Genesis version includes art at the end of levels, so you get to see the stark contast between a rather cutesy-looking DJ and a few of the aforementioned gross stereotypes (for example, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVAdECgWUAI34_s?format=png&name=900x900). It's very weird and unpleasant. Did people even laugh at this back then?
lembro ate hoje quando aluguei o jogo e cheguei no final... bons tempos.