Road Rash 3 - Bolo is Gay?

[ColecoFan1981]

In Road Rash 3: Tour de Force (1995), the final installment of the Genesis Road Rash trilogy by EA, there is an enemy biker whose name is Bolo (a name-only reference to the famed Cantonese martial-arts expert Bolo Yeung). When you successfully punch him off his bike, he sounds like a girl - and that fact leads me to believe he is gay. What do you say?

Bolo's alleged gayness leads me to believe Sega should've screened this release before giving EA the go-ahead in North America, because of Sega's content guidelines that prohibited the character of Ash from being depicted in our version of Sega's own Streets of Rage 3 due to his own gay stance.

~Ben

[The 1 2 P]

So if the character turned out to be gay would you have a problem with that?

[ColecoFan1981]

So if the character turned out to be gay would you have a problem with that?

Not me, personally. But I still cannot get why Sega's content guidelines passed this aspect by.

~Ben

[Gameguy]

When you successfully punch him off his bike, he sounds like a girl - and that fact leads me to believe he is gay. What do you say?

Well I guess that confirms it, he has to be gay.

[ColecoFan1981]

Well I guess that confirms it, he has to be gay.

You can see my point if you play RR3 many times and come across him, and then get him off his bike.

~Ben

[OldSchoolGamer]

Your reading waaaay to much into this. Move on.

[aryoshi]

What about that guy from Super Punch-Out? Or that chef who wears all pink and even hits on Phoenix in Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations? Who cares..? XD Simply soundling like a girl when you get thrown off your bike doesn't really make you gay.. But.. why would it matter if he is or not?

[Aussie2B]

Well, if he's gay, he can hook up with F-Zero X's Baba, who also has a woman's scream.

[Smashed Brother]

Sega's content guidelines also prohibit the creating of no more than 10 threads dedicated to Road Rash. This is the 12th one. They're good games, but seriously, what's up?

[aryoshi]

Sega's content guidelines also prohibit the creating of no more than 10 threads dedicated to Road Rash. This is the 12th one. They're good games, but seriously, what's up?

I would rather play it than make that many threads about it.

[Sunnyvale]

Note the pink shirt... Is god gay?
I agree with OldSchoolGamer on this one.

[Drixxel]

What seems more likely to me here is 1) the developers simply made a mistake and assigned the wrong sound effect to when Bolo gets de-biked and 2) that it slipped undetected through bug testing. If that was some unspoken reasoning of the people who posted their criticism of the OP's "Bolo Is Gay" theory, my apologies for stating the obvious.

[ColecoFan1981]

What seems more likely to me here is 1) the developers simply made a mistake and assigned the wrong sound effect to when Bolo gets de-biked and 2) that it slipped undetected through bug testing. If that was some unspoken reasoning of the people who posted their criticism of the OP's "Bolo Is Gay" theory, my apologies for stating the obvious.

Yes, I'm sure it was an oversight by the RR3 production team. They would know for sure whether or not Bolo was to be depicted as a gay. If only there were interviews with these people.

EDITED: 4-23-2012

~Ben

[FayeC86]

Not to insult the whole "manliness" thing you guys have. But when you are thrown off a bike at a high speed, It just might be ok to scream like a girl. Gay or not.

[RP2A03]

A real man wouldn't scream at all. He would simply land with a heavy thud, grunt as he dusts himself off, and then calmly walk back to his bike with a swagger; broken bones and all.

[Gameguy]

All this talk about gay bikers makes me want to see something really super manly, like Fist of the North Star. Nothing gay about that show, non-stop action with people exploding all over the place.




Yes!!



More!!



Gore!!





Uhh....that's probably taken out of context, it doesn't mean he's gay.





........Nooooooooooooooo!!!

[Smashed Brother]

A real man wouldn't scream at all. He would simply land with a heavy thud, grunt as he dusts himself off, and then calmly walk back to his bike with a swagger; broken bones and all.

I recorded my reaction after falling off of my motorcycle. True story!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WlwCltYONc

[ColecoFan1981]

I recorded my reaction after falling off of my motorcycle. True story!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WlwCltYONc

Do you guys know that in some versions of Streets of Rage 3 that the sub-boss Ash (who normally only shows up in the Japanese Bare Knuckle 3 version) also sounds like a girl when you knock him out?

~Ben

[Battlehork]

All this talk about gay bikers makes me want to see something really super manly, like Fist of the North Star. Nothing gay about that show, non-stop action with people exploding all over the place.

The biker thugs in Fist of the North Star themselves had a proclivity toward wearing feathered boas and having pink mohawks, before you even ever get to Yuda. (BTW, try Sakigake!! Otokojuku for more ridiculous MANLINESS)

[ColecoFan1981]

Here is what Bolo looks like:

Bolo (from Road Rash 3) by classictvman81, on Flickr

~Ben