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Post by Discoalucard on May 30, 2011 11:56:48 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/donaldduck/donaldduck.htmThis article covers over twenty games starring Disney's easily irritable duck. It's an expansive article, seven pages in length, with some absolutely fantastic material. It includes a look at Sierra's classic computer title, as well as an interview with Al Lowe, its designer from way back when. It also desperately makes me want to replay Quackshot - I don't think I've touched it since I rented it over at a friend's house in sixth grade. It also accentuates how popular Donald Duck still is in Europe, something I was never aware of. It also includes an interview with Darlene Lacey, a producer at Disney who was at the head of a handful of games, including the NES version of Duck Tales.
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Post by Weasel on May 30, 2011 16:44:33 GMT -5
The header image with Donald tangled up in an NES controller is gold. Mad props to whoever put that together.
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Post by Audi on May 30, 2011 16:48:35 GMT -5
Ah it's up! It was amazingly fun going through these games and talking to Al Lowe was especially great. Thanks for liking my header image, Weasel, I always try to put some flash and dash to them rather than just using a straight rectangular screenshot logo
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Post by KeeperBvK on May 30, 2011 18:51:21 GMT -5
Another awesome piece of work following the Asterix article. Not only was Donald a major part of my childhood, but I loved Lucky Dime Capers, World of Illusion and Quackshot. Can't wait to have the time to read this.
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Post by Discoalucard on May 30, 2011 19:00:16 GMT -5
Someone on Facebook also commented:
"I'm pretty sure the Famicom one/Snoopy Sports Spectacular is a conversion of a C64 game called Alternative World Games. Just sayin' for completeness. Never played any of them but they look identical, except the C64 one has more events?"
I remember writing about these games a few years ago for a localization article I was doing, but I'll have to read up if it was a conversion of another title.
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Post by Blake Casimir on May 30, 2011 19:13:28 GMT -5
A small note, I can verify that there was (and I still own a copy of) a European release of Lucky Dime Caper for GG. And having not played it in at least 14 years, my god does it make me feel old. Great article!
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Post by Audi on May 30, 2011 19:15:03 GMT -5
There's an Alternative World Games too? Man they really milked that franchise dry during the C64 era. Anyway seems they are indeed correct, so I will have to fix that once I am home from Stockholm, since I am currently on wifi doing work for LEGENDS.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2011 20:48:43 GMT -5
Great article. There was a bunch of games I wasn't even aware of. From the ones I've played, Donald Duck's Playground (C64) and QuackShot (MD/Genesis) were the most enjoyable ones.
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Post by derboo on May 30, 2011 21:59:19 GMT -5
Ah it's up! It was amazingly fun going through these games and talking to Al Lowe was especially great. Thanks for liking my header image, Weasel, I always try to put some flash and dash to them rather than just using a straight rectangular screenshot logo I love this kind of stuff. Not my field of talent, unfortunately. Donald Duck's Playground was one of my favourite C64 games!
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Post by KeeperBvK on May 30, 2011 23:03:10 GMT -5
So, what's next on your agenda, Audi? The Smurfs, possibly?
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on May 31, 2011 0:32:37 GMT -5
The only Donald Duck game i've ever played was Donald Duck's playground on the commodore 64, and I used to play that game HEAPS. I loved buying the playground equipment and just messing around with the configuration of the equipment, and seeing how some of the rides would interact were then nephews used them.
That said, it probably helped that it was around that time that Duck Tales on airing on TV, heh
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Post by vnisanian2001 on May 31, 2011 0:36:33 GMT -5
I just don't udnerstand why Capcom never released Mickey & Donal's Magical Quest 3 in America originally. The reason couldn't have been due to "the waining popularity of the SNES", as that didn't stop them from releasing Final Fight 3 around the same time.
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Post by bioniccommando83 on May 31, 2011 1:43:32 GMT -5
Quackshot and World of Illusion were some of the earliest games I remember playing on the Genesis. My brother and I would rent them and play through them on a fairly regular basis. I've since picked them up on my own and enjoy playing through them with the Mrs. I can stated simply that your article went above and beyond (particularly with the background research into Quackshot & Carl Barks, whom I'm glad got a mention within the article) and did them justice in critiquing the gameplay and other qualities.
Wonderful article as well for going over the history of Donald as a game character- it's kind of interesting how he started out with some of his earliest, moved into platforming, 3D games, and then cell phone games as a kind of rough arc that I think captures a lot of gaming's evolution as a whole.
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Post by KeeperBvK on May 31, 2011 1:59:18 GMT -5
Quackshot is missing the Saturn rerelease in its system list, by the way.
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Post by Stuart Gipp on May 31, 2011 3:41:15 GMT -5
A small note, I can verify that there was (and I still own a copy of) a European release of Lucky Dime Caper for GG. I also have this - the level design is quite different from the SMS version, in places.
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