History VideoGame / DuckTales

%%* EverythingFades

%%* FloatingPlatforms

%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Amazon level boss in the first game. Hopping statues in the Egypt level of the second game.

* BalefulPolymorph: The Dark Sorcerer at the end of the Underground level will transform Scrooge into a frog.

%%* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Yellow in these games.

[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ducktaleswoohoo_2708.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[AC:Where to, Uncle Scrooge?]]]]

->[[AC:Where to, Uncle Scrooge?]]

!!The ''[=DuckTales=]'' video games contain examples of the following tropes:

----

* [[ManEatingPlant Duck-Eating Plant]]: They're located in the Amazon in the first game and Niagara in the second game.

On April 18, 2017, Capcom did another re-release set in the form of ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon Collection'', consisting of both ''[=DuckTales=]'' games, almost completely untouched, as well as both ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' games, ''VideoGame/{{TaleSpin|Capcom}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Darkwing Duck|Capcom}}'', ported via UsefulNotes/{{emulation}} by Creator/DigitalEclipse for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and Windows (through Steam).

* CanonImmigrant: The moon level, its music, and the Oxy-chew were referenced in the [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 2017 reboot]]. Scrooge's cane was also upgraded by Ludwig von Drake to include a handful of gadgets and functions including pogo.

* GameBreakingBug: Crashing has been documented for the Wii U and [=PlayStation=] 3 versions of ''Remastered'', often but not always involving the leaderboards. This was addressed with a [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/xantista/blog/2013/11/08/ducktales-remastered-patch-updates patch]].

* HeartContainer: Two per game. In the first game, you'll find them within stages. In the second game's NES version, you'll have to buy them, while the Game Boy version has them scattered around the levels a la the original. ''Remastered'' has one in each of the 5 normal levels for a maximum of eight on Easy and Medium difficulty (Hard and Extreme retain the original maximum of five).

* GameBreakingBug: The PC version unfortunately has a bug, which happens often for Nvidia graphics card users, where the game can either freeze just before the cutscene where [[spoiler:Magica summons Count Dracula Duck]] at Mount Vesuvius and another where the game crashes after defeating said boss, which can render playing the game under Extreme mode {{unwinnable}}, and this issue was never officially rectified. Some players however discovered possible workarounds by using Task Manager to set the affinity to CPU 1 only and skipping the problematic cutscenes before they can play out.

* HumiliationConga: Flintheart Glomgold and the Beagle Boys end up being arrested, and Magica De Spell's home is presumably destroyed by Mount Vesuvius's eruption.

** The spaceship Scrooge, Fenton, and Gyro use to get to the moon is the Starship Phoenix, which Gyro built in "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore Where No Duck Has Gone Before]]."

** Magica turns the Beagle Boys into pigs, similar to Circe of the Greek legend. A Don Rosa story suggests that she is the reincarnation of the witch of old.

Capcom released a HD VideoGameRemake of the first game with developers Creator/{{WayForward Technologies}} working with Disney to bring the game to life (and musician [[Creator/JakeKaufman Jake "virt" Kaufman]] rescoring the music) on August 13th, 2013 digitally for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}}, UsefulNotes/WiiU, and [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] (via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}), while UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} received that game on September 11th[[note]]it was temporarily delisted from digital storefronts from [[https://twitter.com/CapcomUSA_/status/1158797527241695233 August 8-10, 2019]] to [[https://www.capcom-unity.com/capkel/blog/2020/03/03/ducktales-remastered-is-quack-we-mean-back-on-digital-storefronts March 3, 2020]][[/note]]; a disc-based version of the game came to [=PlayStation=] 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U on November 12th. The remake -- ''[=DuckTales=]: Remastered'' -- has a new graphical style (one which aims to mimic the original cartoon), difficulty settings to make things easier or harder for gamers of all skill levels, an expanded storyline, expanded levels, a brand-new final level (Mount Vesuvius), the ability to swim in the Money Bin, unlockable bonus content (including a full-length version of the show's theme song), and '''voice work from the show's original vocal cast''' ([[TheOtherDarrin well, those who were still]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure alive at the time]]). Here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVvpkNMnWcs reveal trailer]] in all its earworm-y nostalgic glory. It ''will'' get stuck in your head. You have been warned...

** In the original, there was a DummiedOut [[http://tcrf.net/DuckTales#Bomb bomb item]]. The Beagle Boys use a very similar looking bomb in the opening.

* EarnYourBadEnding: There are three endings depending on how much treasure you collect (with ten million being required for the good ending), but it is possible to get a bad ending, albeit in incomplete form.
** Collect exactly $6 million in treasure before heading to the final level.
** Take any amount of damage, then hit the select button twice. This will refill Scrooge's health at the cost of $3 million (the instruction manual does not list this ability).
** Since Scrooge doesn't have any money now, he will be looking sad with no treasure during the ending and the newspaper will say he'll use the special items to rebuild his fortune. The ending cutscene is the same however, showing this was probably a DummiedOut idea from Capcom.

* CashGate: Late into the Amazon level, you approach a large duck statue that makes you pay $300,000 to make a platform appear so you can grab onto the vine to the floor above and progress to the level's boss. However, the level only has enough money (roughly $500,000 in total) to pay the statue once, so if you die to anything afterwords or, worse, despawn the platform, you have to do one of two methods to bypass its offer (GoombaStomp one of the native enemies to reach the vine or take a hidden teleporter in the temple to skip directly to the boss) or use Launchpad to leave the level prematurely.

** The original two games use Easy, Normal, and Difficult/Hard. Easy doubles your health by giving two hits per point on Scrooge's life bar and Normal tones it down by providing only a single hit per point. The hardest difficulty provides different effects depending on the game: The first game's Difficult option removes both the Magic Coin and the Cake items while the sequel's Hard option has the same effect but also removes ice cream cones- depriving the player of any chance of healing mid-level besides using the Cake item bought from the end-level shop.

* CashGate: Late into the Amazon level, you approach a large duck statue that makes you pay $300,000 to make a platform appear so you can progress to the level's boss. (In ''Remastered'', you get to take revenge on it - destroying it gives you the same amount you had to pay it in the original, plus a bit more.)

%%* CashGate: In the NES version, this happens at one point in the Amazon, but can be bypassed by pogo-jumping off an enemy. (In ''Remastered'', you get to take revenge on it - destroying it gives you the same amount you had to pay it in the original, plus a bit more.)

* EarnYourBadEnding: There are multiple endings depending on how much treasure you collect, but it is possible to get a bad ending, albeit in incomplete form.

* [[NonStandardGameOver Non-Standard Lose a Life]]: If Glomgold beats you to the treasure at the end, Scrooge says, "Curse me kilts! Glomgold's got the treasure! Now I have to go back and beat Dracula Duck again." Then the death music plays.

* SnakesAreSinister: Snakes are enemies in the Amazon level.

* DifficultyLevels: Easy, Normal, Difficult in the first game; Easy, Normal, and Hard in the second game; Easy, Normal, Hard, and [[HarderThanHard Extreme]] in ''Remastered''.

* UnderwaterRuins: Mu. You can raise the whole place though, and you're required to do so in order to reach the map piece.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Invoked [[spoiler: by Gyro's ''Oxy-Chew'' chewing gum]].

* VocalEvolution: The voices of Scrooge and Magica [=DeSpell=] do not sound as energetic as they did in the TV series due to their actors' respective ages[[note]]Alan Young (Scrooge) was 94 and June Foray (Magica) was 95.[[/note]] at the time they recorded their lines for the game. [[TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]], however; considering they're not only the original voices from there, but you can tell they're still giving their all even then, which makes it both awesome and heartwarming to hear them again.

The UsefulNotes/{{NES}} game based on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' was released in 1989 and developed by Creator/{{Capcom}} (with the team behind this game largely composed of the same folks responsible for the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' franchise) as a product of its licensing deal with Disney. ''[=DuckTales=]'' shares many of the defining features of the ''Mega Man'' games: unique gameplay mechanics, non-linear level selection, and a boatload of catchy music.

A sequel, ''[=DuckTales=] 2'', followed in 1993. Scrooge has launched another treasure hunt, this time to find the pieces of a map that will lead to an even bigger treasure. The game made significant improvements to the previous game's formula (such as upgrade skills hidden in certain levels and several clever optional puzzles). Both games ended up ported to the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, as well.

Capcom released a downloadable HD remake of the first game with developers Creator/{{WayForward Technologies}} working with Disney to bring the game to life (and musician [[Creator/JakeKaufman Jake "virt" Kaufman]] rescoring the music) on August 13th, 2013 for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}}, UsefulNotes/WiiU, and [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] (via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}), while UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} received that game on September 11th; a disc-based version of the game came to [=PlayStation=] 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U on November 12th. The HD remake -- ''[=DuckTales=]: Remastered'' -- has a new graphical style (one which aims to mimic the original cartoon), difficulty settings to make things easier or harder for gamers of all skill levels, an expanded storyline, expanded levels, a brand-new final level (Mount Vesuvius), the ability to swim in the Money Bin, unlockable bonus content (including a full-length version of the show's theme song), and '''voice work from the show's original vocal cast''' ([[TheOtherDarrin well, those who were still]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure alive at the time]]). Here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVvpkNMnWcs reveal trailer]] in all its earworm-y nostalgic glory. It ''will'' get stuck in your head. You have been warned...

However, on August 6, 2019, it was [[https://twitter.com/CapcomUSA_/status/1158797527241695233 announced]] that [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the digital version]] would be taken down from online retailers, which it has following August 8 and August 10 for consoles and Steam, respectively. Roughly over six months later, the game was [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/capkel/blog/2020/03/03/ducktales-remastered-is-quack-we-mean-back-on-digital-storefronts brought back]] to digital storefronts on March 3, 2020.

On March 2017, Capcom announced they were doing another re-release set in the form of ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon Collection'', consisting of '''both''' ''[=DuckTales=]'' games, almost completely untouched, as well as both ''VideoGame/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' games, ''[[VideoGame/TaleSpinCapcom TaleSpin]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/DarkwingDuckCapcom Darkwing Duck]]'' for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and Windows (through Steam).