As promising as Epic Mickey is starting to sound, we're secretly pining for a different Disney-based offering helmed by Warren Spector -- something of the billed, winged and web-toed variety. We speak, of course, of DuckTales, which recently came up in a Game Informer interview with the ghostly developer. "I want to do a DuckTales game," Spector mentioned. "I can't convince anybody at Disney to let me do a DuckTales game. How can that be?"
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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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:44PM warxroutione said
....just might solve a mystery...or rewrite history!!! DUCKTALES WOOO HOO!!
miss that show. great stuff from the 80s
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miss that show. great stuff from the 80s
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 7:03PM Manifest37 said
The epicness would be biblical if they got the original voice actor to Scrooge McDuck!!!!
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 10:26PM (Unverified) said
Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow was also a really rad game that nobody seems to remember.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:03PM Franklin Gothic said
I can't remember anything about EXCEPT that it was awesome! :)
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 1:53AM (Unverified) said
They better cover all the original NES music if a new version is made!
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 5:36PM Discotheque said
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.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 5:50PM XaiaX said
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.
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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.
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:00PM Premature ejaculation man said
Atari 2600 ET?
Yeah, your argument instantly crumbles before me =p
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Yeah, your argument instantly crumbles before me =p
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:05PM Franklin Gothic said
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?
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maybe just 8Bit disney licenses were good back in the day?
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:15PM (Unverified) said
Rescue Rangers was good. I rented that one many times. Darkwing Duck was also pretty good.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:40PM Funkmaster General said
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.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 7:40PM (Unverified) said
@ 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.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 6:59AM CheeziePotato said
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.
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Posted: Oct 26th 2009 10:52AM shouryuuken said
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.
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@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.
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 5:48PM TheDarkWayne said
Darkwing duck is clearly superior, and much more ripe for game conversion
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:38PM GewurztraminerX said
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
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Ah, Darkwing, how I miss your verbal abuse of Gizmo Duck
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 7:12PM Prestidigitator said
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.
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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.
Posted: Oct 25th 2009 5:59PM (Unverified) said
Holy shit, I think I played that game when I was little. I forgot all about it.
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Posted: Oct 25th 2009 6:04PM Premature ejaculation man said
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?
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Was he able to use his walking stick as a pogo stick or something?
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