Boogie - Disco Inferno

This is Coyote member Boogie, a small-time criminal in every sense of the word. The diminutive disco dancing addict has spent the majority of his criminal career in and out of jail. During this time he became an acquaintance of Sid Burn, leader of the Coyotes. A small man with a big mouth Boogie often talks tough to cover up that he’s actually anything but a tough guy and he often complains when things aren’t going his way.

Boogie was out of jail strutting his stuff in Phoenix, Arizona when Sid called him to join up with the Coyotes on their spree of terror across the Midwest. Boogie accepted the new gig but didn’t really understand Sid’s warning about the Vigilantes having never heard of the group.

On his first mission Boogie was attacked by the Vigilantes but managed to escape and regroup with the Coyotes. After complaining to his old friend about what happened, Sid thought Boogie was being a wimp and sent him on an easy mission to California to terrorize a wind farm.

Once again Boogie was set upon by the Vigilantes and escaped. Needing to catch a break Boogie heard of a disco dance competition in Casino City, Nevada and headed there to compete. Winning the dance contest Boogie proceeded with his mission to blow up a wedding chapel when the Vigilantes once again found him but Boogie escaped in the chaos of battle.

Furious over Boogie dancing instead of carrying out orders Sid threatened to set him on fire unless Boogie found the Vigilante member John Torque and took him out. Catching up with Torque at Hoover Dam Boogie pressed his attack and actually managed to disable Torque in the battle after throwing everything he had at him and the other Vigilantes.

Speeding from the scene with no ammo for any of his weapons systems Boogie was easily chased down by local police, arrested and thrown in jail.

For Boogie’s 1975 Leprechaun I used a 1970 Gremlin as the basis for it. I also mixed the paint jobs of the game model and in-game FMV models since they are both somewhat different with how they do the yellow stripes and place the gun(s) on the vehicle.

Vigilante 8, Boogie and above mentioned characters copyright Activision
Gremlin is copyright AMC (American Motors Company)/ Chrysler

If you don't know what Vigilante 8 is, read this:

In the 1970s the world was suffering from a world wide oil shortage. The USA was heavily dependant on affordable gasoline and was on the verge of an economic breakdown. Strikes, riots and crime were running rampant and all available law enforcement were brought into metropolitan areas which left the outlands unprotected.

The Oil Monopoly Alliance Regime (OMAR), a foreign multinational oil consortium had it's sights set on monopolizing the worlds oil trade and it's biggest opponent was the USA which opposed OMAR's price fixing schemes.

Bent on forcing the USA to its knees OMAR hired terrorist Sid Burn to go to the US and commit acts of mass destruction and chaos designed to send the country's economy over the edge. Sid immediately traveled the American Southwest and formed a gang called the Coyotes and began targeting American oil refineries, alternate energy sources and terrorized and robbed small towns and settlements along the way.

With nobody to turn to for help, a ragtag group of citizens victimized by the Coyotes led by the trucker known as Convoy banded together as The Vigilantes, who quickly became a major thorn in the Coyote's collective side.

Desperate to get an edge on his enemies and looking for a way to cause more destruction, Sid Burn heard the rumors of advanced weapons based on UFO technology housed at the mysterious government installation called Site-4 located somewhere near Papoose Lake, Nevada.

Ambushing Site-4 Sid's robbery went bad when the Vigilante's unexpectedly showed up and as a result the world's most advanced weaponry found it's way into the hands of both parties.

With their normal vehicles modified into rolling engines of destruction the Coyotes and Vigilantes now wage a war across the American Southwest with the fate of the USA hanging in the balance.