Dough Boy (video game)

Doughboy (ダウ・ボーイ, Dauboi)^[4] 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.^[5]

The player must rescue a POW from a POW camp.^[6][7]

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.^[6] 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.^[6] After each round is completed, time is taken off the clock to make things more difficult.^[6]

The Famicom version of the game features a Game A, Game B and 2 Play mode. Game A is the basic game, while Game B increases the difficulty by constantly firing missiles at the player. The 2 Play mode has one player controlling the soldier while the other player controls the missiles. The missiles can be used to destroy enemy soldiers; however, they can still harm the other player.^[8][9][10]