QuackShot Starring Donald Duck

In late 1991, Sega released this excellent and much underrated game. Travel around the world with Donald Duck in your search for special items in your search for King Garuzia's treasure.

This game was released about the same time as the mighty Super NES, and it could compete with anything that system had to offer. Some of the best 16-bit graphics ever. The characters are all very detailed and colourful. The Bosses are even better. Of course there is the animation of Donald himself when he gets tired of standing in one place for too long. The best thing this game offers in terms of graphics is the backgrounds-which are simple outstanding. Each stage greatly varies from the next, from Egypt to Mexico, to the amazing opening stage in Duckberg The sound effects set the stage perfectly, as they change from the energetic tunes from Duckberg to Mexico, to the quiet, eerie sounds of the Mexican pyramid to Transylvania.

This game has great gameplay, The screen moves as you move, revealing more screen for you to move, enemies could be there as well. There are a lot of different areas, and tasks to do, which makes this game very fun but challenging. You can use your weapons in more ways than one which is great. I must say, that the Sega Mega Drive not having many games like this, it really is great.

There are so many side scrolling platform games on the Sega Mega Drive, so you are probably wondering if good old Quackshot is worth playing. In a word yes. Give it a try, even if you have played many of the other hundreds of "side scrolling platform games". Overall, Quackshot gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

My memories of Quackshot were of a game with incredible depth and complexity. Perhaps because I was 11, but I have a feeling that if I got to play it again today I would feel the same way. I recall the excitement my brother and sister felt as one of us uncovered a new place on the map. I have an XBox now with all the fanciest games in the world, but all lack the playability of Quackshot. Donald turned out to be a great video game character. He has his flaws and weaknesses, but you root for him in the end. I wish I could remember the name of the guy who invents his weapons. Without his help there would be no hope. Thats definitely one of the coolest features of the game. Your tools are weapons, but they are also necessary to advance through the levels. Also, you need certain tools to get through certain levels. I wish I could play it right now! Red plungers were sweet!