Quackshot (Amiga)

Originally released for the Sega Megadrive back in 1991, Quakshot is a Disney-licenced side-scrolling platformer starring Donald Duck in an Indiana Jones-style role. The plot sees Donald set out on a trip around the globe looking for an ancient lost archeological treasure, the various levels spanning a wide range of environments including Egypt, Mexico, India, Transylvania, the Soulth Pole and even a haunted Viking longship, with appropriately colourful adversaries to fight your way through at each location. There is even a section that sees you careening along a track at high speeds in a mine cart, in a nod to Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom. As with ...  Read the complete review

Quackshot is one of the Megadrive's earliest, and greatest releases. I was lucky enough to be bought a Megadrive as a yound lad (although I had to share it with my brother) and every birthday or Christmas, we would be allowed to choose a game as our present. My Megadrive came with Altered Beast (meh!) and Ghostbusters (wahey!). My birthday followed soon after Christmas and we travelled to the games shop to reward me for surviving another year of childhood. The first game that caught my eye was Quackshot. Donald Duck graced the front, decked out in his explorer garb and plunger gun in hand. I wanted that game!!! Unfortunately, my father could not ...  Read the complete review