Wow, uh, this is not good. Thought I had a lot of nostalgia for this one, but after playing it for a little bit, it's actually Duck Life 2 that I played the most as a kid.

Duck Life 1 is an incredibly rocky start to the series and I'm honestly pretty surprised it ever amounted to anything. The running minigame is totally busted at higher speeds, the quickest way to level flying is just to click go and wait until it's over and repeat, and the swimming game is fine, I guess, but at higher resolutions there's a gray smudge in the middle of the screen that basically never goes away. The small amount of text in this is littered with spelling and grammatical errors, most of the images are just random stock photos, it's suuuper crusty. I think I knew this even as a kid, and it's probably why I picked 2 over 1 pretty much any time I went to play a Duck Life game, lol