Just shy of Disney's golden age of video games, but among the best of its era. Duck Tales excels in control and feedback, two things that were very hard to get right on the NES. Each pogo-stick bounce or tricky platforming jump feels perfect. Levels are challenging enough that you'll get something out of it whether you're old or young, and I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone struggling to see the ending. Secrets can be a bit devious and even a little too obtuse, but if you just want to jaunt through and see the ending, it's a relatively straight-forward game.

Obviously they had the advantage of Duck Tales' brand name. It was a huge show at the time and even today you won't have to look far to find an adult who is nostalgic for it. If the new show is anything to go by, it still resonates with kids today, too. But if you stripped out the IP and made this its own thing, you would still have an incredibly fun game. For every ounce of character there's an equal measure of mechanical quality.