Beg your Mom for some quarters, jump on your bike, ride down to that dark, smokey, noisy and slightly dangerous home for one of your video games– the Arcade!
This is “Analog Agent Benjamin” coming at you this week with…. Duck Tales the NES Game
As a kid, Duck Tales was one of my favorite cartoon shows, so when I found out that there was going to be an NES game for it; I asked my Mom if I could get one for my Birthday. And I got it.
Duck Tales was one of the few games based on a movie or TV series that got everything right. The game play was great, the music was good, and it was just fun to play. The game was also made by Capcom (the same guys who made the Mega Man games), so it was made by guys who knew what they were doing. But what makes this game so great in my book was that it was the only game I ever beat as a kid.
The game was so good, that Capcom even made a sequel to it.
Too bad not many fans played it, because the game came out at the end of the NES’s run, good thing they also ported it onto the Game Boy as well.
Did anyone else here play this game? Did you ever beat it?
The Duck Tales franchise on the NES is a great example of everything done right on a Nintendo game, the enemies are well designed, the power-ups are placed smartly and the stage designs are well laid out.
Most Disney games on the NES were instantly great classes (Chip N’ Dale Rescue Rangers anyone?)
The game was hard sometimes, but it was never outright unfair, which was a very common occurrence in most NES games.
Strangely enough, the sequel coming out near the end of the NES library might be why the second one is so expensive. You can get Duck Tales at bottom bargain bin prices in most online shops, but Duck Tales II can go from anywhere to $30 to $200.00, I was amazed.
My favorite forever will always be Startropics.
I could only beat it on easy, sadly.
Same here.
Sadly this was one game I never thought to play at all as a kid, so I missed out greatly on it since either I didn’t think about it or perhaps I was getting a bit older at the time and was starting to swear off cartoons by then (I watched the show though). We were rather poor in my family and I only had a few games to play or rent back then anyway but it sure seems like I missed out on a good one.