DJ Boy (DJボーイ) is a 1989 beat 'em up arcade video game developed and published in Japan by Kaneko and in North America by Sammy.
DJ Boy skates across various stages and utilizes hand-to-hand combat moves in order to defeat opponents, culminating with a battle with a boss at the end of each level.
Along the path, the player also encounters prizes, which then can be used later to purchase Power-ups from a store located at the end of each level (in the home version, the arcade simply tallied these as points).
In Japan, Game Machine listed DJ Boy on their October 15, 1989 issue as being the seventh most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
[7] Sega Power magazine gave the game an overall 30% score, criticizing the boring gameplay, the levels being too easy, the dull graphics, terrible sound and concluding "A nob beat-em-up with added nobby bits.
The game features three player simultaneous action using characters that are different from one another (rather than palette swaps), and the optional use of weapons and vehicles, as well as a more robust fighting system.