May 2018 Game of the Month: Quackshot Starring Donald Duck

lilbud

Quackshot Starring Donald Duck

Developer: Sega

Publisher: Sega

Platform: Sega Genesis

One part of the loose trilogy of Disney games on the Sega Genesis (others being Castle of Illusion and World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck). Quackshot was released in December 1991 in all regions. The game follows Donald on the road to riches after finding a map to the location of King Garuzia's treasure. Big Bad Pete hears about this, probably because Donald Duck and Quiet don't go together in the same sentence unless 'isn't' is in between. So the two race off to find the treasure and beat each other to it. (But Donald will obviously win because plot). This is Ducktales for the kids who had a brainfart and chose the inferior console. Time to bang the gong and get it on!

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Now here is a link to the G.O.T.M Art Pack™. This includes custom box art for ES/Kodi or whatever you use. A launching image for the runcommand menu, and an Overlay for in game.

Game of the Month Challenge

This months challenge is The Duck Avenger You must beat the final boss without taking damage. Have Fun, and don't take any crap from anybody.

EDIT: Cheevo was updated by @meleu, instead of beating the final boss with 5 power left, you now must beat final boss while taking no damage. Direct all hate mail his way for any frustration you face while attempting to beat said challenge. puts up flame shield

quicksilver

@lilbud said in May Game of the Month: Quackshot Starring Donald Duck:

This is Ducktales for the kids who had a brainfart and chose the inferior console.

Hey! Sega does what nintendont!

space cadet

Yeah sega rocks. Your probably too young to really appreciate sega genesis!

lilbud

@space-cadet First off, *you're
Second thing, by the time I was born, Sega dug themselves so far down they had to admit defeat in the console business. So I had no experience with Sega until much later, I was a Nintendo kid from the beginning, so I might be a little bias.

lilbud

@quicksilver What? Release several consoles that failed and eventually throw in the console towel?

obsidianspider

After you beat this, be sure to check out Maui Mallard, another great Donald Duck game.

mitu

@obsidianspider said in May Game of the Month: Quackshot Starring Donald Duck:

be sure to check out Maui Mallard, another great Donald Duck game.

Thanks for the tip, looks like a wacky Donald game with great music.

hooperre

This game is honestly amazing and one of my childhood favorites. It's one of the first games I completed when I got my RetroPie. It's a lot of fun.

ruckage

@lilbud said in May Game of the Month: Quackshot Starring Donald Duck:

This is Ducktales for the kids who had a brainfart and chose the inferior console.

I don't think anyone would agree that the Megadrive or Genesis was inferior to the nes 🙄. Not a fair comparison though as the NES was getting pretty old by this point and its main competitor was the Master System (the Master System was also technically superior to the NES but the NES arguably had a much better game library).
The megadrive was hugely successful and Sega was at it's prime when it released, it was only later that Sega made lots of mistakes (though at least we still got the Dreamcast).

Quackshot is really nothing like Ducktales. It's more of a platform adventure game with a slight metroidvania feel to it as you have revisit levels and progress by getting new equipment. It's not a particularly long game but is great fun - one of my personal favourites on the Megadrive.

lilbud

@ruckage said

Quackshot is really nothing like Ducktales.

Same universe

ruckage

@lilbud said in May Game of the Month: Quackshot Starring Donald Duck:

@ruckage said

Quackshot is really nothing like Ducktales.

Same universe

That doesn't make the games alike, though I'm sure you knew that. They're not even made by the same developers (Ducktales was developed by Capcom and Quackshot was developed by Sega).
Ducktales is a much more traditional platformer and Quackshot is more of an adventure game.

mediamogul

@lilbud said in May Game of the Month: Quackshot Starring Donald Duck:

Same universe

I got burned by that same logic on Christmas day 1992. My brother had a Sega Genesis prior to that and I used to sneak into his room to play 'Spider-Man vs. Kingpin'. To this day, I believe it to be one of the best representations of the comic, standing right alongside Activision's later 3D titles. When I got my Super Nintendo, I wanted my own Spider-Man game, so I asked for 'Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge'. By my logic, the two games were from the same comic universe and the Super Nintendo had to be superior to the Genesis that had already been out for three years. Heck, this new game would even have the X-Men in it.

Well, all you need to see in hindsight is the little Rainbow LJN logo on the game to know that I was wildly disappointed. Even with the later release of 'Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage', which many believe to be LJN's only good game, the Super Nintendo never had a Spidey game that matched the quality of 'Spider-Man vs. Kingpin'. Make no mistake, I still loved my Super Nintendo, but I would eventually get a Sega CDX to play the type of games that the Sega platform always seemed to have a better handle on.

lilbud

@mediamogul said in May Game of the Month: Quackshot Starring Donald Duck:

little Rainbow JGN logo

LGN's only good game

You managed to spell LJN two different ways, neither of them correct.

mediamogul

@lilbud

That's what I get for typing about retro video games when I should be focused on a conference call, coincidentally involving a company we're working with named LGF. I corrected it above.

mediamogul

Man, have I had a rotten day. A little pizza, an Oatmeal Porter or two and some 'QuackShot' sounds like just the ticket.

lilbud

@mediamogul No Quackshot in my plans.

More like math homework and George Carlin standup

mediamogul

@lilbud

Still not bad as plans go. George Carlin's never a bad choice. You finishing up high school this year or do you have one more to go?

lilbud

@mediamogul One more, as I am currently a Junior. (11th grade in the US.) Plan to go to either a nearby community college or the nearby University (haven't visted the Uni yet, so still undecided.) I plan to go to college one of the following, I.T./Computer Systems or Computer Graphic Arts (which the school near me has a full graphic arts/game design course for a certificate.) Mostly undecided other than the school I'll go to, which is 15min from my house and won't require me to live on campus.

mediamogul

@lilbud

I kinda liked living on campus for the most part. I brought my Super Nintendo with me, as I still enjoyed it, but it was old enough that it wouldn't have been a complete loss if it was stolen. We ended up playing a lot of 'F-Zero', 'Super Mario Kart' and an excellent hockey game that someone brought over and left. I need to figure out which one it was at some point. Good times!

quicksilver

@lilbud haha so true! Sega made a lot of poor choices. The Sega Genesis was not one of them. You have to remember that the Genesis was out in the US well before the snes so it was by far the best system out for a while.