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Duck Tales Gameboy

Format:
Gameboy

Genre:
Platforming

Style:
Singleplayer

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Quacking my way around platforms is, surprisingly, more fun than I remembered.

• Decent sprites and graphics.
• You get to wield a cane.
• You get to pogo around on a cane.
• You get to golf swing with a cane.
• You get to hit baddies with a cane.
• You only have a cane.
• That means attacks are repetitive.
• But the level designs are fresh.
• It’s Duck Tales - what’s not to like?

In My Experience

Everyone loved Duck Tales on the NES and the Gameboy - so it was deemed a retro classic. But I always found it tedious and repetitive in my youth, most likely down to my misplaced hatred of platform games as explained in my recent Mario Bros review.

Now though, I can enjoy it for what it really is - a great game with some neat touches and a surprising amount of depth for such an old retro title. Jumping around between 5 very different levels it’s clear the non-linear approach works well with the genre and the tricky controls are half the fun. I got a real thrill when I found several hidden areas and avoided contact with baddies for an entire level - all because I’d mastered the pogo hop with Scrooge’s cane!

Last Word

Another platformer converts this old cynic. The graphics and music are superb, especially for a Gameboy game and the challenging nature of the pretty vast levels ensures a short but fun-filled amount of time is needed to reunite Scrooge with his cash.

Remember to use the portals!

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I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Short but incredibly sweet and worth digging out once more.

Written by Steve Manser

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Steve Manser writes the Teletext Gamer column.

"I remember watching and waiting for Teletext pages to tell me the latest and greatest video game news in the 80s and 90s. What better way then, to review the best of those old games with some choice new titles here and there."

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