Warren Spector would love to make a new DuckTales (ooh-oooh-ooh)
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Oct 25th 2009 at 5:30PM }
We don't have an answer for your query, Mr. Spector. Perhaps we no longer live in a world where mallards can bounce through lunar canyons on walking sticks. Perhaps you can take us back to that beautiful time, someday. You know, when you're not busy fusing Mickey Mouse and Bob Ross.
[Thanks, Koshi.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Kinsey @ Oct 25th 2009 5:35PM
Duck Tales game would be more epic than any Mickey game could be.
xgarryx(warXroutine on LIVE and PSN) @ Oct 25th 2009 6:44PM
....just might solve a mystery...or rewrite history!!! DUCKTALES WOOO HOO!!
miss that show. great stuff from the 80s
Prof. Von Manifest of the Clan McCloud (PSN: Manifest37) @ Oct 25th 2009 7:03PM
The epicness would be biblical if they got the original voice actor to Scrooge McDuck!!!!
Prof. Von Manifest of the Clan McCloud (PSN: Manifest37) @ Oct 25th 2009 7:04PM
"Curse me kilts!!"
BigD145 @ Oct 25th 2009 7:06PM
Yes, but nobody can be trusted to do it right.
bongoes Sector 2814 @ Oct 25th 2009 8:22PM
"I wish you a happy shopping"
I wish you would stop.
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 8:34PM
people, hit the ! button on the spammer. forget downvotes. thanks.
Powerlord @ Oct 25th 2009 8:36PM
It'd be great if they could get Alan Young to do Scrooge again. :D
He's done video game voice acting in the past... Haggis from Curse of Monkey Island, for instance.
Filthy Assistant @ Oct 25th 2009 10:26PM
Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow was also a really rad game that nobody seems to remember.
TRON.dll @ Oct 25th 2009 10:36PM
@xuchaoxio34
Cool story bro!
Levi @ Oct 25th 2009 5:35PM
this was such a good NES game
Gavin @ Oct 25th 2009 6:03PM
I can't remember anything about EXCEPT that it was awesome! :)
Monica Dickey @ Oct 26th 2009 1:53AM
They better cover all the original NES music if a new version is made!
Spartan [Planeteer | Power of Sunshine & Lollipops] @ Oct 26th 2009 6:13AM
I really really enjoyed the original.
Jim @ Oct 25th 2009 5:35PM
Maybe a downloadable remake of the original game? If sales were high enough, perhaps a sequel would be justified.
Seanross @ Oct 25th 2009 6:13PM
there was a lesser known sequel of the original to begin with.
Discotheque @ Oct 25th 2009 5:36PM
Hopefully after the success of Epic Mickey they give him the greenlight for this game. He's clearly a big Disney fanboy and knows what he's doing with the characters unlike some really overrated Japanese developer.
Dan @ Oct 25th 2009 5:36PM
Please do so.
False @ Oct 25th 2009 5:38PM
Remember when games based on licensed movies/TV shows were actually GOOD?
xaiax @ Oct 25th 2009 5:50PM
No?
Licensed games have been pretty crap since they invented licensed games. There were the occasional gems (I would totally be on a Ducktales game, hell yes) but there were also fantastic atrocities (fantastrocities) like:
Total Recall
Actually, that's enough of a list.
Also, I beat that game. Ah, the rental store, foundry of my gaming prowess. I only whatever one game they had out at a time, so it was either beat it or go back to my old games. It definitely engendered a kind of tenacity that's largely unnecessary these days.
This is not a complaint. Nostalgia is crap. Games are better now.
Premature ejaculation man @ Oct 25th 2009 6:00PM
Atari 2600 ET?
Yeah, your argument instantly crumbles before me =p
Gavin @ Oct 25th 2009 6:05PM
Strangely the NES Rescue Rangers game was also pretty good. (at least, i remember it being good) So was that Mickey Mouse / Donald Duck side scroller I can't remember the name of.
maybe just 8Bit disney licenses were good back in the day?
Durden @ Oct 25th 2009 6:15PM
Rescue Rangers was good. I rented that one many times. Darkwing Duck was also pretty good.
Reuben @ Oct 25th 2009 6:40PM
I have two games for you: Lion King and Alladin. I had both for the SNES, and I played the shit out of them. They were such simple games that they still hold up today.
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 7:22PM
you guys forget the cream of the crop. SUPERMAN 64.
sorry for reminding you guys of the horribleness.
Durden @ Oct 25th 2009 7:40PM
@ Reuben Alladin! Wow! What a great game. I had it on Genesis and that Magic Carpet level used to kick my ass! I liked Lion King because it had a lot of the movie voices in it.
Espiownage @ Oct 25th 2009 8:18PM
@ Reuben & Durden:
It's Aladdin
Durden @ Oct 25th 2009 8:33PM
@Espiownage haha. good looking out
Levi @ Oct 25th 2009 8:34PM
"Nostalgia is crap. Games are better now."
TAKE IT BACK!!!
Sly @ Oct 25th 2009 8:46PM
"Nostalgia is crap."
not necessarily. a lot of platformers and RPGs still hold up really well. chrono trigger is a great example. super mario 64 is 13 years old and it's still great.
Greyseal @ Oct 25th 2009 8:54PM
@Ruben and @Durden: Aladdin on the SNES and Genesis were completely different games, actually. The Genesis one was fantastic. I never played the SNES one.
I think the Lion King games were the same, though.
CheeziePotato @ Oct 26th 2009 6:59AM
Batman on the NES, anyone? It was based on the 1989 Batman movie, and was such a great game. There was also Aladdin on the SNES/Genesis and GOLDENEYE 007 on the N64.
shouryuuken @ Oct 26th 2009 10:52AM
I do. It was because the companies behind the games were actually worthwhile. Nowadays, licensed games are published by big name companies, but made by some small studio that wouldnt make good non-licensed games. If I think about all the licensed games I liked back in the day, Capcom (all the nes/snes disney games, alien vs predator, marvel fighting games/beat em ups), Konami (ninja turtles, the simpsons, x-men arcade), and even Sega (spiderman and some random others) come to mind.
@gavin: thats because they were all made by the same producer.. plus the mickey/donald game youre thinking of was on snes, not nes. but the same producer behind the nes megaman games worked on ducktales, darkwing duck, rescue rangers, aladdin, mickey mouse, and the other disney games ive probably forgotten.
Markez (attempting to call me less of a man because i knew so much about pans) @ Oct 25th 2009 5:43PM
Warren Spector pulled a McDuck 'EUREKA!' moment and came up with a great idea.
Life is liiike a hurrrrrricaaaaane, heeeeeeere innnnnn duuckburrrrrrg
Platy @ Oct 26th 2009 2:03AM
Actualy in the interview he says that he want to do a ducktales game based on the COMICS, not the tv show.
Mudassir @ Oct 25th 2009 5:45PM
Wow. Why would anyone need to be convinced to make a game based on the one of the greatest animated shows of all time?
The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] @ Oct 25th 2009 5:48PM
Darkwing duck is clearly superior, and much more ripe for game conversion
ikono @ Oct 25th 2009 5:54PM
I can see it now: Darkwing Duck: Quakam Asylum; A new, edgier, Darkwing.
GewurztraminerX @ Oct 25th 2009 6:38PM
Darkwing Duck was made in to a game, though I don't think it was as good as the Ducktales game.
Ah, Darkwing, how I miss your verbal abuse of Gizmo Duck
Prestidigitator @ Oct 25th 2009 7:12PM
darkwing duck / ducktales crossover videogame 4tfw
fly from locale to locale collecting treasure until you're at this jungle where there's a magic barrier. scrooge suspects magicka da spell; can't solve it. launchpad says i know this magic chick and you fly and get darkwing and his sorceress girlfriend whatever the fuck her name. dispell the magic barrier and you find out bushroot is helping to control the jungle. darkwing goes oh hell no let's get dangerous. then you interrogate magicka and find out that megavolt and the beagle boys staged a prison riot from the inside on this island that's supposed to have treasure in a cave somewhere. there are more and more connections like those until you find out it's scrooge's rival behind it all--that guy with the beard and kilt--with negaduck as his right hand. gizmoduck launches some missiles. damn.
Bagels (@AlsoBagels) @ Oct 25th 2009 7:44PM
Cool day-dreaming like a 7 year old bro
Mr Khan @ Oct 25th 2009 8:08PM
Darkwing Duck is the next series i need to torrent. But even finally having DirecTV as i do (at least when i'm actually at home), i still have no access to it. Not even Disney XD is pre-disposed to show it
BigD145 @ Oct 26th 2009 12:10AM
Disney likes to throw thing in THE VAULT. I too would be ashamed to put old brilliance up against current day garbage.
whylekat @ Oct 26th 2009 8:58AM
Nuts to that
Launchpad McQuack deserves his own title. He practically did everything for Old Scrooge McDuck and saved D.W.s life countless times!
AvA (ice~) @ Oct 25th 2009 5:47PM
Dear god that game was so good. I kinda just realized that back then, there were A LOT of licensed NES games, especially for disney and looney tunes and stuff like that. good times.
CheeziePotato @ Oct 25th 2009 5:57PM
I loved playing that game as a kid.
Gripman @ Oct 25th 2009 5:59PM
Holy shit, I think I played that game when I was little. I forgot all about it.
Michael @ Oct 25th 2009 6:03PM
D-D-D-Danger... right behind you!
Premature ejaculation man @ Oct 25th 2009 6:04PM
I know I played this game, but I can't remember aything about it likely due to being too young.
Was he able to use his walking stick as a pogo stick or something?
Seanross @ Oct 25th 2009 6:15PM
Yes, you could actually go through whole levels doing that.. except the Himalayas.. stupid snow ; ;