Quackshot
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| Developer(s) | Sega of America |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Release date(s) |  1991 December 19, 1991 December 20, 1991 |
| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Platform(s) | Genesis/Mega Drive |
| Media | 4-megabit cartridge |
| Input | Game controller |
Quackshot is a platformer released for the Sega Genesis on December 19, 1991. It stars Donald Duck and his three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, as treasure-hunters.
In Japan, this game was called Alive! Donald Duck: Georgia Ou no Hihou, but in America, Australia, and Europe, the game was named Quackshot. The game was part of a series of games that Sega of America produced for its Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console systems based on Walt Disney cartoon characters that also includes Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Fantasia and World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
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[edit] Plotline
While Donald is flipping through some books in Uncle Scrooge's library, a treasure map from King Garuzia, the old-time ruler of the Great Duck kingdom, falls out. It leads to the king's most prized possession. Donald thinks this is his path to riches. Unfortunately Big Bad Pete overheard.
[edit] Gameplay
The player, as Donald, ventures through a variety of side-scrolling levels. Generally, each level is divided into an overland part and a dungeon. Although the player may choose any order to play the overland sections, various obstacles prevent the player from entering the dungeons outside of a specific order. Once Donald has completed the overland section of an area, he may leave by calling his nephews' biplane, and will return to the dungeon entrance of that area if the player chooses to return.
Donald is armed with an unlimited supply of plungers by default, and could collect various upgrades to his plunger so that he could shoot the plunger at a wall and then temporarily walk on it. The player could also collect ammo for a special gun that shot popcorn or bubblegum at enemies.
[edit] Setting
There are three basic worlds on the game-map at the beginning:
But later on you will go to places like:
[edit] Characters
The following well-known Disney characters appear in the game:
- Donald Duck (the main character of the game)
- Huey, Duey and Louie (they fly Donald's plane)
- Goofy (is inside the temple in Mexico, he gives you the Red Plunger and a note that shows a code a trap in Egypt)
- Gyro Gearloose (is on the other side of a powerrail in Duckburg, gives you the Bubblegum Gun and refills your stock of bubblegum at every visit)
- Pete (the enemy of this game)
- Scrooge McDuck (sleeps in a chair in the prologue)
- Daisy Duck (appears in the prologue and ending of the game)
- Mickey Mouse (appears on a balloon in the second area of Duckburg)
[edit] Indiana Jones References
This game has several references to Indiana Jones:
- The title has the same font as Indiana Jones title font.
- Donald wears the same clothes as Jones.
- The whole "treasure hunting" theme is also much like Indiana Jones.
- The minecart scene in this game is similar to a scene in the second Indiana Jones movie.
- The room before the last boss alludes to one of the ending scenes in the last Indiana Jones movie, The Last Crusade.
- Donald fights a knight in the end of the game; Jones also does that.
