Sunday, January 29, 2012

Duck Tales


A good old fashioned platformer with a legendary reputation on the NES. Based on the exploits of Scrooge McDuck, he travels all over the place stealing treasure, killing natives and selling the land he conquered. A bit dark in retrospect, but it's lots of fun.
Once again, Capcom gives you a stage select screen.  
It controlled oh so smooth. You can walk around, use your cane as a pogo-stick, jump, and use your cane as a golf club. The pogo bounce is the best move in the whole game; it kills most enemies and will bounce you over most obstacles. I often bounced non-stop for parts of the levels. And the developers were aware of the pogo's awesomeness; certain obstacles will only hit you if you are dumb enough to bounce into them. It worked sooo well.
except in the snow.
But you really have to play it to see the greatness that is duck tales. So here.
That was the moon level. If you liked the music, you aren't alone. That tune was on ScrewAttacks top 10 video game music themes. Also, brentallfloss did a "What if _____ had lyrics?" for this song. Its quite hilarious.

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