Freaky Friday Gamer
Tuesday by Erik Anderson
Editor's
Note: In honor
of our Freaky
Friday week on
From Screen to
Theme, all of
our Days of the
Week writers
have been moved
to a different
day for this
week only. "Pap"
will return to
Gamer Tuesday
next week when
Erik returns to
his usual
Who's Who
Wednesday
column.
Game: Darkwing
Duck
System: NES,
Gameboy, and
TurboGrafx-16
Developer:
Capcom
Darkwing Duck
was a spin-off
of the
television
series Ducktales
and lasted three
seasons on the
air with the
first being in
1991. With the
huge success of
the Ducktales
NES game, Capcom
decided to run
with a Darkwing
Duck game as
well. It ended
up being wildly
popular and I
still have this
game and play it
to this day.

The plot line of
the game is
F.O.W.L. was
causing muck in
St. Canard
again, crimes
were happening
all over the
city, and they
sent six rivals
of Darkwing Duck
into St. Canard
to unleash
chaos. Those
villains were:
Quackerjack,
Wolfduck,
Liquidator,
Moliarty,
Megavolt,
Bushroot, and
Steelbeak.
Darkwing has
several gadgets
throughout the
game at his
disposal to help
him try and
defeat these
dastardly
villains.

The game has
seven levels to
play through:
The Bridge, The
City, The
Sewers, The
Tower, The
Warehouse, The
Forest, and The
F.O.W.L.’s
Floating
Fortress. The
graphics on the
game we standard
for the NES and
Capcom. Games
like Darkwing
Duck, Ducktales,
and Chip/Dale
Rescue Rangers
really had a
Mega Man type
gameplay feel to
it, which in my
experience made
it easy to play
since I love the
Mega Man series.

The most amazing
thing about this
game is, that it
wasn’t like a
lot of NES
games. Most
games were not
very difficult
and could be
beaten in a week
if you played it
a lot, but
Darkwing Duck
was really the
first game that
gave me some
hair pulling
issues. This
game was
HARD!!!! I would
recommend this
game to anyone,
as it is a very
fun, yet
challenging game
that will keep
you on your
toes.
