Capcom has made 150 new Gold Duck Tales NES cartridges!

What Capcom has done is to produce 150 brand new copies of the original game on working NES cartridges and packaged them up in a, by default, very rare collectors set. So far a lucky few game reviewers/reporters have received one in the post to help promote the game. Capcom has gone to a lot of trouble to recreate the working cartridges, and employed the talents of iam8bit Productions to make it happen. iam8bit didnt just source 150 old copies of the original game. Instead, they used brand new circuit boards to load the game on to, then refurbished 150 original NES cartridge shells and produced new DuckTales labels to create the final golden cartridges. And in so doing, theyve created a cartridge that should last as long as the originals have.

Sounds like they're just typical publisher bribes sent to journalists in exchange for review scores. It's actually quite disgusting to me.famicommander

So that's why Tom McShea gave the Remastered version a 4.0 (oops, make that 4.5). He didn't get this present!

[QUOTE="famicommander"]Sounds like they're just typical publisher bribes sent to journalists in exchange for review scores. It's actually quite disgusting to me.saosebastiao

So that's why Tom McShea gave the Remastered version a 4.0 (oops, make that 4.5). He didn't get this present!

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[QUOTE="famicommander"]Sounds like they're just typical publisher bribes sent to journalists in exchange for review scores. It's actually quite disgusting to me.Jag85

So that's why Tom McShea gave the Remastered version a 4.0 (oops, make that 4.5). He didn't get this present!

I read the whole review, it doesn't sound to me like he hates retro gaming. He just didn't like THAT game. Yeah, he complained about being sent back too far if you die, but that's it when it comes to retro game trends. (I love retro games and it bothers me too) He had planty of other problems too that has nothing to do with that. So I don't know why so many people keep saying he hates retro games.

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So that's why Tom McShea gave the Remastered version a 4.0 (oops, make that 4.5). He didn't get this present!

Bongardo

I read the whole review, it doesn't sound to me like he hates retro gaming. He just didn't like THAT game. Yeah, he complained about being sent back too far if you die, but that's it when it comes to retro game trends. (I love retro games and it bothers me too) He had planty of other problems too that has nothing to do with that. So I don't know why so many people keep saying he hates retro games.

The point is that he pretty much missed the point of the game. And this is what's wrong with most game critics, who just judge games based on personal preferences, with very little attempt made at trying to be objective or keeping the intended target audinece in mind. When a film/book critic reviews a film/book, s/he reviews it while keeping the intended target audience in mind. DuckTales is clearly intended for gamers who actually enjoy that old-school style of 2D platforming, yet he criticizes the game over some of the things that many retro gamers like about old-school gaming. It's not supposed to be a modern-day hand-holding experience, and judging it as such completely misses the point.

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[QUOTE="Jag85"] If Tom McShea hates retro gaming so much, why did he even bother reviewing the game? Jag85

I read the whole review, it doesn't sound to me like he hates retro gaming. He just didn't like THAT game. Yeah, he complained about being sent back too far if you die, but that's it when it comes to retro game trends. (I love retro games and it bothers me too) He had planty of other problems too that has nothing to do with that. So I don't know why so many people keep saying he hates retro games.

The point is that he pretty much missed the point of the game. And this is what's wrong with most game critics, who just judge games based on personal preferences, with very little attempt made at trying to be objective or keeping the intended target audinece in mind. When a film/book critic reviews a film/book, s/he reviews it while keeping the intended target audience in mind. DuckTales is clearly intended for gamers who actually enjoy that old-school style of 2D platforming, yet he criticizes the game over some of the things that many retro gamers like about old-school gaming. It's not supposed to be a modern-day hand-holding experience, and judging it as such completely misses the point.

But like I said. He didn't complain about it being a retro style game as much as you and many others say. He made 1 or 2 remarks about it, but thats far from his only problems. I don't think he missed the point at all, he just feels the game isn't fun. His review seems the most objective out of all the ones I've seen, since he isn't praising every aspect out of nostalgia.  And as someone who never played Duck Tales on the NES before, that's the kind of review I want.