Dough Boy (video game)

For other uses, see Doughboy (disambiguation).
Dough Boy
Famicom cover art
Developer(s)Synapse Software
Kemco (Famicom)
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, Asymmetrical-multiplayer (Famicom only)

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]

  1. ^ "Release information (Commodore 64 version)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2012-12-17.
  2. ^ a b c "Release information (Family Computer version)". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  3. ^ "Doughboy". Lemon. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  4. ^ "English-Japanese title translation". SuperFamicom.org. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
  5. ^ Hanlon, Michael E., The Origins of Doughboy, 16 June 2003, Origin of Term Doughboy