History VideoGame / Quackshot

** In a middle area in Duckburg (after you get the red plunger that lets you climb walls), you can see a blimp, with [[MickeyMouse Mickey's]] face on it, flying in the background.

* AbnormalAmmo / EdibleAmmunition: Your arsenal consists of a Plunger Gun, Explosive Bubblegum Bubbles, and a powerful Scattershot Popcorn. Enemies fire tomatoes, toxic gunk and even throw beehives at you.

* BittersweetEnding: Subverted. Sure, you defeated Pete and the final boss, but for all your efforts, it turns out [[spoiler: the treasure was a just a lousy statue. However, when the useless lump of rock is accidentally dropped, it reveals a priceless necklace, which makes Daisy a ''very'' happy girl and grants the happy ending after all.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The treasure turns out to be a statue. And to be honest, such an ending would fit nicely with Donald's typical luck, despite the player's anguish. Fortunately, there's one final twist.]]

* BarrageOfBats: Donald Duck stars in a Indiana Jones-inspired adventure/treasure hunt around the world. One of his stops is a castle in Transylvania, where he fights Count Dracula as a boss battle. During the fight, Dracula floats around the screen wrapped in his cape, stops at certain points and opens his cape to release bats at Donald.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The South Pole. Complete with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguins]]. ''Evil'' [[KillerRabbit Penguins]].

''Quackshot: Starring [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck]]'' is a platformer developed by Creator/{{Sega}} in 1991. It stars the titular Donald and his young nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie on an ''Franchise/IndianaJones''-style hunt for treasure.

Whilst in his Uncle Scrooge's library, Donald stumbles on a treasure map belonging to King Garuzia, the ancient ruler of the Great Duck Kingdom. Believing this will make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, he sets off treasure hunting with his nephews. Unknown to him however, Pete learns of his plans and sets about following his every move in hopes of stealing his riches.

!! This game provides examples of:

* PolarBearsAndPenguins: Penguins in the North Pole.

* BittersweetEnding: Subverted. Sure you defeated Pete and the final boss but for all your efforts it turns out [[spoiler: the treasure was a just a lousy statue. However when the useless lump of rock is accidentally dropped, it reveals a priceless necklace, which makes Daisy a ''very'' happy girl and grants the happy ending after all.]]
* BigBoosHaunt: Dracula's Castle is filled with ghosts as is the haunted Viking Ship. One of these acts a hazard in two sections that play out in a game of Grandma's Footsteps.
* BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: The hot chilli item sends Donald into a rage where he is temporarily invincible.

** In a middle area in Duckburg (after you get the plunger that lets you climb walls), you can see a blimp, with [[MickeyMouse Mickey's]] face on it, flying in the background.
* ChekhovsGun: {{WesternAnimation/Goofy}} gave a strange note that contained hints of icon lists order to Donald that needed to remember later on.

* CrouchAndProne: From a crouching position your able to dodge projectiles and perform a ground slide, which not only lets you slide under things but is faster than walking, or even sprinting.
* {{Dracula}}: One of the games bosses.

* FurryConfusion: One of the power-ups you can collect to heal youself is ''roast duck''. Then there's the fact you need to grapple onto Pete's parrot henchmen to fly across distances. Apparently ducks are the only anthropomorphic birds around not blessed with flight.

* InvincibilityPowerUp: Collect enough chili peppers and it maxes out the temper meter sending Donald into his trademark berserk mode, making him temporarily invincible and faster.

* MinecartMadness: The final part of the Egyptian pyramid and the midway point of Pete’s Hideout have Donald hop into minecarts, and ride across, jumping into other minecarts when there’s a break in the track.
* NextTierPowerUp: Donald's upgraded plungers, which each give him a new stunt he can do with them. The first upgrade lets them stick to walls to make stairs, and the second does that plus let Donald hang onto birds to get over long pits.

* PuzzleBoss: A variant: the Egyptian pyramid "boss" is actually a DescendingCeiling which lowers while the boss theme plays. In order to survive you have to push the buttons on the floor in the right order (each of which is marked with a different symbol). Earlier on, Goofy [[ChekhovsGun gives you a note with the combination,]] although what the note is actually referring to isn't obvious till you actually reach the boss. It's also possible to climb to the top and get out of the way in time if you are ''very'' fast with your plungers and jumping.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The treasure turns out to be a statue. And to be honest such an ending would fit nicely with Donald's typical luck, despite the player's anguish. Fortunately there's one final twist.]]

** A minecarting & Maharajah's palace level much like in ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom The Temple of Doom]]''.
** The sought after diary that reveals the treasures location, like the one of Henry Jones Sr. in ''[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade The Last Crusade]]''.

** The Final Boss is a crusade Knight who looks a lot like the one guarding the grail.
** Ironically, the game doesn't reference the famous giant boulder from ''Raiders'' which was a reference to a Scrooge [=McDuck=] story.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Sure Donald can't fly but he's still a duck that can handle a ''very'' long time under water in Dracula's castle. Making what would have been a frustrating section enjoyable.
* TemporaryPlatform: Certain enemies like floating blocks briefly become this when struck plungers. There's also the crumbling and burning away variants too.
* TookALevelInBadass: Donald jumped a notch in this game. On the villain side of things ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Shere Khan]]'' of all creatures. ''[[BreathWeapon Who actually breathes fire during his boss fight!]]'' Talk about conquering your fears and using them against your enemies.

* UnderTheSea: A booby trapped, spike ridden section of Dracula's castle makes up the obligatory underwater level. Dracula ''really'' didn't want people getting to him it seems.
* YouALLLookFamiliar: All of Pete's dog henchmen look like him, cousins maybe?

''Quackshot: Starring [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck]]'' is a platformer developed by Creator/{{Sega}} in 1991. It stars the titular Donald and his young nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie on an ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' style hunt for treasure.

Whilst in his Uncle Scrooge's library Donald stumbles on a treasure map belonging to King Garuzia, the ancient ruler of the Great Duck kingdom. Believing this will make him rich beyond his wildest dreams, he sets off with his nephews treasure hunting. Unknown to him however, Pete learns of his plans and set about following his every move in hopes of stealing his riches.

Aside from the game's enjoyable platforming, the player could take on each available level in whatever order they saw fit. However the end of each level lead to a "dungeon" entrance that could only be accessed with the right item or weapon. The player could call in his nephew's plane to whisk him off at this point and return to the entrance when he located the required items in other levels. Essentially, most levels could be beaten in any order but the "dungeons" and final levels had to beaten in a specific order to progress.

** In a certain area in Duckburg, you can see a blimp, with [[MickeyMouse Mickey's]] face on it, flying in the background.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: The South Pole. Complete with [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Penguins]].

* BigBad: Pete, who was actually ''literally'' known as "Big Bad Pete" at the time.

* BigBoosHaunt: Dracula's Castle is filled with ghosts as is the haunted Viking Ship.

* PuzzleBoss: A variant: the Egyptian pyramid "boss" is actually a DescendingCeiling which lowers while the boss theme plays. In order to survive you have to push the buttons on the floor in the right order (each of which is marked with a different symbol). Earlier on, Goofy gives you a note with the combination, although what the note is actually referring to isn't obvious till you actually reach the boss. It's also possible to climb to the top and get out of the way in time if you are ''very'' fast with your plungers and jumping.