Old Games: Encyclopedia Bombastica: Quackshot starring Donald Duck

until today, i was convinced this was a light gun game.

You guys should do Buster Busts Loose for SNES next.

Wasn't it Jeff that was saying his friend went to a rockapella concert and they didn't play Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? It is on an early episode of the bomb cast. I remember his friend said he was surprised no one demanded they play the song then realizing he should of been that person.

The minecart section just made me think of Rocket Knight Adventures which this site is lacking in video content of.

Dan and Jeff have become a great silly combo. They are really funny playing off of each other.

For the record, they made one final Donald Duck game for the Genesis before it died called Donald Duck: Maui Mallard. It was also a great game, but I never finished it.

Seriously. What do they need to go through the credits? Break down the development? The point is pretty much just showing the game off.

If the comments section here proves anything, it's that Disney is indeed for whiny children. Get a grip people.

Oh wow, that show was called Disney Afternoons in the US? This was on every friday afternoon on national TV in Sweden during my whole childhood.

The original show also featured our urrent cultural minister's break into mainstream media twenty years ago.

Come to think of it, we've even got a Donald Duck-party in Sweden (not an actual political party, more of a throwaway vote).

Oh man, Jeff, I played a ton of that Bruce Lee game as a kid. I had the Apple ][e version, which I think is pretty much the exact same as the Commodore 64 version but with weird colors. As a kid I would usually die in the first weird waterfall level, but as an adult I went back and mastered the shit out of that game.

Does anyone else fondly remember Aladdin for the Genesis, I remember thinking it was great as a kid

There goes your Endurance Run for 2015

Donald Duck Quackshot: is like driving on a highway - Dan Ryckert

I'm pretty impressed with Dan's memory of this stuff. I thought I had this down, but that maze where you jump over doors stumped me a little.

No minigolf courses around here, @jeff?! Do I need to remind you about Rohnert Park's hot Scandia action?

They had two price tiers, one for 9 holes and another for 18, but you could totally pay for one and do all 18 because all the apathetic teenagers from Rancho Cotate High School didn't give a shit.

I feel like you guys missed a golden oppertunity using "duckheads" instead of "qwackheads"

Man... I played the shit out of this game back in the day.

Also at the time I couldn't speak English at all so it was pretty much just trying to figure stuff out by trial and error, like "why the hell did I just end up at this wall with nowhere to go? there's a dude and he's saying something but fuck if I know what it is", didn't prevent me from beating it though heh.

Oh my goodness Quackshot. This was one of the few games I owned for the Genesis and I played it over and over again. I remember far too much of this title than I should.

Quackshot any% 1:13:54 by xXx_Quackert_xXx

"It's a nonissue!"

- Dan's hot new action hero catchphrase.

Quackshot is an awesome game. Glad it's getting love on GB

i remember playing this game like crazy when I was little, but I remember the game or the sounds in the game giving me the creeps. Maybe it was the fat ghost guy.

Dan was a machine on this play through. Well done!

Jeff's response of "Cool" to Dan's random dead sea lion story made me laugh.

@genxalo said:

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Dan not having seen any Disney stuff as a kid explains A LOT.

This was fun and it's really interesting to see how little Dan cares for Disney. Disney was just huge in Europe while I was growing up and Donald and Co. were to be found absolutely everywhere. Loved that stuff as a kid, still really like it now.

Also good first show without Drew and Jason.

Laughed out loud at "rectal damage". Exploring the depths of these characters.

Dan's confusing Gyro Gearloose, the inventor of the Gizmoduck power armor with Fenton Crackshell who accidentally activated the suit and became Gizmoduck, but I acknowledge that I am not necessarily the better person for knowing that.

I'm surprised I didn't hear that old line about Disney vs. Warner Bros: If Disney is classical, then Warner Bros. is jazz. I don't know how true that is anymore, but it certainly was so back in their heyday.

Thinking about it now, I suppose it makes sense that Disney games were better received by people of a certain age than Disney shorts: Video games are the jazz to other entertainment medium's classical.

So weird, I actually just picked up this game again over the weekend.

@kevin_cogneto: I wasn't expecting to laugh when I started watching this.

Man I loved me some Quack Shot.

Just need some Tiny Toon Adventures on the SNES next.

Finally a game on this series that I actually played. I don't think I ever got past like the 2nd level though.

I'd love it if they did Comix Zone. I loved that game growing up, thought it was the hardest game in the world and no one ever mentions it any more. That makes me sad.

Shots fired at @mrjared early in the video (with love, or whatever Dan can comfortably express and feel for another man)

@guanophobic: Same here in Denmark. It's been running almost* non-stop since 92 to this day, every Friday 7pm. It's become a tradition.

*) It was briefly cancelled in 99, but so many people complained that they were forced to put it back on air

"Are there Donald Duck comics?"

I grew up on Donald Duck comics. As a very young child, my grandmother came by our house every Wednesday with the weekly "Anders And" comic and it was an absolutely massive thing in Denmark that every kid knew about. Being Walt Disney characters, I assumed it was the biggest thing in America too.

Anyway, Donald Duck is not a character that lends himself to video games as he is. Donald is a short-tempered, petty bachelor in a perpetual mid-life crisis. He's the every-man wage-slave who doesn't realize how good he has it, because he's always focusing on getting better stuff. He's also the type of person who is jealous of others success and often will cheat his friends and nephews if he can get away with it (which he rarely does). Because he is so real, you can't help sympathizing with him and wanting him to see success, even though he doesn't always deserve it. The comic books are cautionary tales of what kind of adult you shouldn't grow into becoming.

The classic comics from before my generation went to some even darker places.

@darkbeatdk said:

"Are there Donald Duck comics?"

I grew up on Donald Duck comics. As a very young child, my grandmother came by our house every Wednesday with the weekly "Anders And" comic and it was an absolutely massive thing in Denmark that every kid knew about. Being Walt Disney characters, I assumed it was the biggest thing in America too.

Anyway, Donald Duck is not a character that lends himself to video games as he is. Donald is a short-tempered, petty bachelor in a perpetual mid-life crisis. He's the every-man wage-slave who doesn't realize how good he has it, because he's always focusing on getting better stuff. He's also the type of person who is jealous of others success and often will cheat his friends and nephews if he can get away with it (which he rarely does). Because he is so real, you can't help sympathizing with him and wanting him to see success, even though he doesn't always deserve it. The comic books are cautionary tales of what kind of adult you shouldn't grow into becoming.

The classic comics from before my generation went to some even darker places.

For some reason I've always associated Donald Duck and George Costanza. But your description is pretty interchangeable for the two characters.

Oh man I loved this game as a kid! I can't believe Dan got through it in less than an hour and a half; it certainly felt a lot more epic back then.

People who haven't seen this in their childhood is empty beings; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DXo5haNd9M

Edit; But yeah, lots of people missed out the fun with the comics - Don Rosa especially.

On the subject Jeff brought up of lesser known games you constantly want to tell people about: Anachronox, all day, every day.

... An entire planet is a party member, in that game.

@danryckert calling people out for being into "childish" things has me like

Yeah, I'm on the same side as Jeff and Dan here: I never understood the Disney fervor. I mean, Disney is OK,... I s'pose. Give me some Loony Tunes, though, and my inner child comes out. Even as a kid that was my preference.

Yay old games!

When the big ghosts looks at you freeze :) Man I haven't played this game in 20 years.

@kevin_cogneto: you realize that is an pro-american propaganda video? Making a mockery of Hitler and the Nazis.. Have you ever seen it to the end?

Ahem...the best slide is in Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!

Some day I'll get that Vectorman edition of Encyclopedia Bombastica...

I should play me some Duck Tales one day soon.