J.J. & Jeff

J.J. & Jeff (Kato-chan and Ken-chan in Japan) is a side scrolling platform game for the TurboGrafx-16. The game is loosely based on the then popular television show Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan which Vin Di Bona Productions used as its inspiration for the popular television show America's Funniest Home Videos. The game is best remembered for its off-beat characters and enemies, and toilet humor. The game is often criticized for being too censored or sanitized when translated for America with most reviewers feeling that the Japanese version was superior in humor and gameplay.

Story
J.J. & Jeff are bungling detectives in the same vein as Inspector Clouseau. They are out to solve a kidnapping case.

Gameplay
The player chooses either J.J. or Jeff to play, then the player runs, jumps, kicks, and sprays his way through eight levels. A life bar labeled "Vitality" depletes as the character is injured. Eating food hidden in each level will replenish this meter. Money found can be used to play a slot machine game for items. The slot machine is one of several hidden rooms found in each level. Enemies are defeated in two main ways, kicking them, and spraying them with a can of spray paint. (In the Japanese version, the spray can was originally Kato and Ken's own flatulence.) Kicking random objects can produce money, food, and other items. Extra lives are obtained at 70,000, 150,000, 300,000 and 500,000 points.