Disney's DuckTales
DuckTales is a platform game developed and published by Capcom and based on the Disney animated TV series of the same name. It was first released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989…
Disney's DuckTales is a platform developed by Capcom, released 14 September 1989 on Wii, Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Disney's DuckTales is
Disney's DuckTales is a platform game developed by Capcom and released in 1989. It is available on Wii, Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Beagle Boys attempt another raid on Scrooge's money bin, with Baggy, Burger and Bouncer Beagle capturing Huey, Dewey and Louie. After Scrooge rescues them, he finds Big Time Beagle in his office with a painting in his hands. With the help of Duckworth, Big Time is defeated and retreats. The painting reveals the locations of five treasures, and Scrooge wastes no time to set out for them. Scrooge and Launchpad visit the Amazon to find the Sceptre of the Incan King. Using eight golden coins, they uncover the hidden temple of Manco Capquack, but the sceptre is lost and the temple is destroyed by its guardian statue. The chief of the natives then approaches Scrooge and Launchpad and thanks…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are comedy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Donald Duck series
Disney's DuckTales is the sixth of 39 entries we hold in the Donald Duck series. It arrived 12 months after Donald Duck. The next entry was Disney's DuckTales in 1990. Its critic score of 86 is 11 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Kingdom Hearts III at 90.
How it was received
Disney's DuckTales holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 176 votes.
What it launched against
Disney's DuckTales launched on 14 September 1989, within three weeks of SimCity and Shadow of the Beast. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: SimCity, Shadow of the Beast.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Disney's DuckTales yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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