It's JJ and Jeff to the rescue! Playing JJ and Jeff on TurboGrafx-16 for the first time

Welcome to the world of those two bungling detectives, J.J. and Jeff. 

As you can see, the latest game I played on my TurboGrafx-16 journey was J.J. and Jeff. Honestly I had no idea what this game was going to be like going into it, and it's crazy as shit, but ultimately much better than I thought it might be.

J.J. & Jeff is a side scrolling action game where you progress across each stage, dodging or fighting various animals and people, kicking your friend in the arse, and dodging bird turds that look like the poop emoji without the eyes. Oh, you also gamble once in a while with a slot machine, using the coins you pick up during the side scrolling sections.

The whole game is rather absurd, but generally has good graphics, and as usual the music is catchy and decent overall.

The main mechanic you have is a kick, and you not only use it to defeat enemies, but you can kick lampposts, fences and blocks to get fruits and special items, plus you kick doors in the background to open them.

The doors you open lead to either a brief (absurd) cutscene of what of the characters in a funny outfit and typically giving you a gameplay hint, and then it refills your health.

Or the doors can lead to a slot machine mini-game where you can wager up to five coins and then get extra lives, life refills or more coins.

Generally the game looks good, the controls are tight, and the gameplay is fun. There are definitely times when you encounter cheap enemy hits or instant deaths that annoy the crap out of you, but its not too bad.

You can watch some of gameplay of my very first few runs of the game in the video below:

Because the game has a bunch of cheap hits and deaths (but nothing you can't learn to avoid in future runs), I ended up seeing the Game Over screen often. 

I eventually looked up cheats for the game and discovered that if you hold the I and II buttons and press the Run button when the Game Over screen is shown, it lets you continue. 

Overall I enjoyed playing J.J. & Jeff and I'll probably keep playing it in the future. I didn't know what to expect going into it, but its crazy and I had a lot of fun.

The next game in my TurboGrafx journey is...

Takin' It To The Hoop!

Other than the fact that this is clearly a basketball game, and there are always a lot of copies of it for sale, I don't really know anything. Excited to finally try it out.

Until next time...