Duck Tales

STORY / GAMEPLAY
In Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold, you play the role of Scrooge McDuck aided by his three little nephews Huey, Louie and Dewey. Scrooge finds himself lost in a cave network swinging from vines into the Amazon jungle and climbing mountains in search for any kind of treasures (gold, diamonds etc). There are also a few extra sub-quests such as taking pics from wild and rare animals of the jungle (this time with Daisy's help) to earn a few more bucks. All quests are presented with funny, animated acting of Disney's heroes, a details that adds to the game's experience. In order to grab the chance of getting first to a place of interest around the world, you must fly your airplane avoiding a variety of threats. In case of failing this Scrooge will pay a few bucks for fixing this or, even worse, he may lose the chance to try the quest. The competitor with more money on the scale at the end of the game is the winner and earns a place on the magazine's cover!Duck Tales plays OK but soon you'll realize that it gets too repetitive. It's a shame that the developers didn't spend as much time to make a more appealing gameplay as they did on the game's great visuals.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
As on the ST and Amiga counterparts, the DOS version sports cool, cartoon style and colorful visuals and the sprites look very close to the real Disney's characters. The DOS version supports EGA only but although its awkward default color-palette and the 16 colors on-screen, all scenes and sprites look great! Comparably, the Amiga version has up to 32 colors whilst the Atari ST has also up to 16, but with better color pick due to its higher 512-colors palette compared to the EGA 64-colors palette). The sprites' animation is quite slow and sometimes it makes the whole experience frustrating to play. To this version's sound, DOS Duck Tales offers some tunes along with a few minor sound effects but only via the PC-speaker since unfortunately there is no advanced hardware support (AdLib sound cards etc) at this point.