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Googling "Disney video game with ninja duck" did no good. My lasting impression was that the game centered around Donald Duck's cousin going on ninja adventures.įortunately, Steam and Wikipedia had the answer with a bit of detective work. We had, after all, played a bunch of weird games back then, including a short game of airplane trivia. As more activities and games entered the fray, I may have forgotten all about it, but that image stayed with me. I may have never begun my search if not for the unforgettable death screen - an oozy hand grabbing the player character and dragging him into the abyss after he loses all of his HP. I wasn't even sure if it was real, or if my childhood mind was failing me as I slipped into adulthood. He would try it out, and I would watch over his shoulder. We also discovered one important fact: it was super HARD.

This is part of the reason why I don't work with joysticks. My brother had discovered it on the CD-ROM, when we realized that one level was virtually impossible to pass, owing to the fact that the joystick we had didn't work.

Maui Mallard In Cold Shadow, also known as Donald Duck In Maui Mallard, is unique in that it came free with a Toy Story game, that we had seen trailers for on our many VHS tapes. Usually, the player characters suffer from that reflex dodge. Those like me flail and try to not go for the knee-jerk reaction. They are meant for gamers that understand how to react with proper instincts, rather than panicking reflexes. There are some things you don't miss, especially how hard some of the games were. You miss the nostalgia and the simplicity. The same goes for Storybooks since there are updated versions for the iPad and other devices with less interactivity. Most edutainment games are either pay-to-play or obsolete, lacking the historic drivers needed to play on modern PCs. These days, it's harder to find such games because the market has shifted.

It's why I love the genre so much, and try to find games that can teach me more. This development also meant that I either played Storybooks or games deemed as "edutainment". Neanderthal gamer here, and owning it.Īs a result, all games that I played were on PC, and my parents would screen anything we looked at.

As a result, I'm more familiar with the keyboard. Or it could be that by the time I was old enough to use our family's Nintendo system, it had started to falter. It could be that I am a Neanderthal compared to most gamers. I would rather stick with the keyboard and remain imprecise. They have explained this is why I don't get far in Cuphead despite my having proven that playing the game with a controller makes my response time even worse. My friends often lovingly mock me about my lack of comfort with game controllers.