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?

Reviewed on Jun 11, 2022


3 Comments


1 year ago

But jenny don't you know? Japanese people can't be racist to black people! Every Japanese old guy in the entertainment industry is a blameless innocent soul!

1 year ago

Old Japanese Man 1: Hey, I got a joke.
Old Japanese Man 2: What's that?
Old Japanese Man 1: Black people!
Both: LMAO!!!!!

1 year ago

@MagneticBurn God, I hate the Gamer tendency to crowd around random people in the industry and deify them. Nintendo fans especially.