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Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold

A money-making strategy game. Become the MacDuck the richest duck on the world. Your goal in this game looks simple : Making money. But to do so, you have to manage your cash, make good investments and of…

31 December 1990

Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is a platform developed by Incredible Technologies, released 31 December 1990 on Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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What Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is

Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is a platform game developed by Incredible Technologies and released in 1990. It was published by Walt Disney Computer Software. It is available on Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game starts as Flintheart Glomgold walks into Scrooge McDuck's office and challenges him to see who is the richest duck in the world.[1] Assuming the role of Scrooge, the player then gets 30 days to collect treasures from all around the world. Scrooge is assisted by his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and pilot Launchpad McQuack. Flying to different destinations is one of the many different sequences in the game. Many of these destinations are fictitious or imaginative, names often being puns on real locations, and some were featured in episodes of the show. Some exist in the real world, such as the Carlsbad Caverns. In flying sequences to reach the destination, the Beagle Boys try…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Donald Duck series

Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is the eighth of 39 entries we hold in the Donald Duck series. The next entry was Disney's DuckTales in 1990.

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What it launched against

Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train and The Amazing Spider-Man.

Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, The Amazing Spider-Man.

Official trailer

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When did Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold come out?
Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold was released on 31 December 1990 for Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

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