Disney's DuckTales

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Description

Duck Tales for NES is a traditional platform game in which the player takes the role of greedy Scrooge McDuck in search of treasures around the globe. He counts on his three nephews and on other Duck Tales characters to help him in his quest through inhospitable places such as the Amazon rainforest, the African mines, the Himalayas, Transylvania (where he meets Dracula Duck) and even the Moon.

Each one of them reserves the old duck lots of adventure, different enemies and hidden rooms.

The game features a 2D side-scrolling platform gameplay very similar to Mega Man. Graphics are colorful and cartoonish, music is reminiscent of the TV series, and controls are very simple.

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Alternate Titles

• "わんぱくダック夢冒険" -- Japanese spelling
• "Wanpaku Duck Yume Bouken" -- Japanese title
• "Disney's DuckTales: La Bande à Picsou" -- French title

Part of the Following Groups

• Animals: Ducks
• Disney's Duck Tales games
• Gameplay feature: Multiple endings
• Genre: Hop and Bop Platformer
• Inspiration: TV cartoons
• Protagonist: Treasure hunter
• Setting: Earth's Moon
• Walt Disney games

User Reviews

A great game released even before the beginning of such strict control of Disney products.	NES	Mumm-Ra (410)
Capcom does it again.	NES	Crazy Horse (12)
One of the weirdest sidescrollers I have ever seen	NES	Asinine (1006)

Critic Reviews

1UP!	NES	Aug 19, 2005	94 out of 100	94
Raze	Game Boy	Jun, 1991	90 out of 100	90
Retro Game Reviews	NES	Jan 13, 2017		90
NES Archives	NES	Apr 29, 2009	B+	83
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	NES	Jan, 1990	32 out of 40	80
Nintendo Power Magazine	NES	Jul, 1989	4 out of 5	80
Tilt	NES	Jun, 1991	15 out of 20	75
Just Games Retro	NES	Jan 13, 2002		70
Power Play	Game Boy	May, 1991	67 out of 100	67
neXGam	NES	2002	6.4 out of 10	64

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Trivia

North American version

To comply with Nintendo's censorship policies, the North American release was changed so that the crosses on the tombstones in one level said "RIP".

Related Web Sites

• Howard & Nester do Duck Tales (A regular feature in Nintendo Power magazine, Howard & Nester was a comic strip about two game whizzes who would one-up each other, while disclosing hints and tips, in the settings of various recently-released games for the NES platform. In the November/December 1989 two-page installment, Howard frees Nester from the wrong side of a wall on the Moon by summoning Roboduck (... indicating that the comic author only played the prototype, before Roboduck was given his correct name, "Gizmo Duck", back.) All this without infringing on any Disney intellectual properties, using generic ducks.)