This week’s Old Game That Doesn’t Suck Thursday involves a game a lot of people play, probably to make up for the game that I think only I’ve played last week.  This week, it’s the NES version of DuckTales.

This game is awesome for perhaps only one major reason: walking cane.  Cane is the best weapon ever.  Scrooge McDuck uses a cane to attack but can also use his cane to pogo stick to higher locations.   Who knows why a cane can be used as a pogo stick but it makes for fairly awesome gameplay.

Like any good gameplay comes a nice pairing of good graphics, which were also above average for an NES game.  Characters were fully animated and not with simple sprites; the game is fleshed out with great looking animation and enemies.

Yeah, its fairly simple platforming but it was fun, and that’s what really counted.  I loved this game and was very memorable to my childhood.  I never owned the game, only rented it from a video store once, but even that once was enough to ingrain it in my memory.