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REVIEW CREW #4: DuckTales (NES)

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Channel: Defunct Games · 2013 · Gaming

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Warning: This video does not contain hurricanes, race cars, lasers or aeroplanes. With that out of the way, it's officially time to get excited about DuckTales Remastered. After months of teasing, Capcom is finally releasing the long-overdue HD remake on the PlayStation Network today. So what are you waiting for ... go buy it right now.

Now that you have it downloading to your PlayStation 3, let's talk about the NES original. We already dug into the history of the show and game in Sunday's YOLO episode, but what did the game critics thinks of this 8-bit platformer at the time? Did they view it as an instant classic, or was it dismissed as yet another licensed property? Find out now as we dig through this giant pile of classic magazines. 

Disney's DuckTales was first released in 1989, at least a year before most magazines started running proper review scores. As a result, there aren't a ton of reviews for the original DuckTales. But don't worry, because bold deduction never fails, that's for certain. Here's what the critics thought of DuckTales ...

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