Dough Boy
Famicom cover art
Developer(s)Synapse Software[1]
Publisher(s)
  • NA: Synapse Software
Designer(s)Ken Coates[3]
Platform(s)Commodore 64, Famicom
ReleaseC64
Famicom
Genre(s)Action[2]
Mode(s)Single-player,[1] multiplayer[1]

Doughboy (ダウ・ボーイ, Dauboi)[5] is a Commodore 64 video game by Ken Coates released in North America in 1984. A port for the Famicom was released in Japan in 1985 with the spelling changed to Dough Boy.

Doughboy is a nickname given to American soldiers during the First World War because they would often rush into battle while wearing white dust on them; this originated in the Mexican–American War of 1848 when they had to march through the deserts of northern Mexico.[6]

Gameplay

During the later missions in the game, getting run over by a tank leads to instantly losing a life.

The player must rescue a POW from a POW camp.[7][8]

Players can die by being shot, falling into water (by drowning), being blown up by a land mine, and being run over by a tank.[7] Players are in possession of machine gun and can use dynamite as a way to attack the enemies. A strict time limit of 24 hours (five real-time minutes) is used in order to keep the pace of the game relatively brisk.[7] After each round is completed, time is taken off the clock to make things more difficult.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Technical information for Dough Boy". NesCartDB. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  2. 1 2 3 "Release information (Family Computer version)". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  3. ↑ "Doughboy". Lemon. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Release information (Commodore 64 version)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2012-12-17.
  5. ↑ "English-Japanese title translation". SuperFamicom.org. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  6. ↑ Hanlon, Michael E., The Origins of Doughboy, 16 June 2003, Origin of Term Doughboy
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Basic summary". odino (GameFAQs). Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  8. ↑ "Basic summary (second reference)". Famicom Reviews. Archived from the original on 2011-05-02. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
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