DJ Boy 1989

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June 11, 2022

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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?