HELP. How do you use Uncle Scrooge's cain as a weapon in Ducktales

[Flam]

all I can do is hop around and am not able to defend myself


thanks!

[InsaneDavid]

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/ducktales.txt

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/index.html

[Flam]

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/ducktales.txt

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/manuals/index.html

Thanks, I just added this page to my favorites.

[Jorpho]

See also http://www.replacementdocs.com .

(Also http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cane .)

[InsaneDavid]

Thanks, I just added this page to my favorites.

A very, very old page but still very useful.

[Superman]

Every time I play DuckTales (around once every couple of years), I always forget how to play. Since it's been awhile since I last played it, I'm sure I'll be looking up the same info shortly! LOL

[dgdgagdae]

Thanks, I just added this page to my favorites.

Me too, thanks for sharing.

[JSoup]

How does I use cane?
How does I search GameFAQs for shit?

[treismac]

I love the hell out of Duck Tales, but my only complaint with the classic is cane related. At times it seems as if the shoulders of enemies are off limits to attack and only their heads can be pogosticked. Although it doesn't come even close to spoiling the fun, it does irk me a bit.

[Edmond Dantes]

Can you believe that I played this game for a whole year without knowing about the pogo technique at all? So I was always like "how do you beat the bosses?"

[buzz_n64]

This thread blew my mind. At first, I thought there was a secret technique I didn't know about that you might be referring to, like whacking an enemy straight on with the cane. I later realized that some of you guys couldn't figure out how to use the two buttons on the NES gamepad. Thankfully games like NARC trained my button pressing skills.

[treismac]

This thread blew my mind. At first, I thought there was a secret technique I didn't know about that you might be referring to, like whacking an enemy straight on with the cane. I later realized that some of you guys couldn't figure out how to use the two buttons on the NES gamepad. Thankfully games like NARC trained my button pressing skills.

I hear you. For the life of me I can't recall how I learned of the pogo technique in Ducktales. I'm guessing Nintendo Power was my source rather than the manual, trial and error, or watching a friend. Back in the day, I don't think I ever bought a game that I hadn't salivated over for months and months in the pages of that venerable cover to cover shameless plug for Nintendo games.

I think I'm now gonna have to try the game without using the pogo technique to see just what Edmond Dantes went through.

[JSoup]

I didn't use the pogo during the first few hours of my initial playthrough when I was a kid. Eventually figured it out, I recall the controls being a tad twitchy when it came to that move. Might have been my controller as well, don't really remember.

[Jorpho]

Considering the ordinary non-pogo jump provides very little height, I am amazed one could make any progress in the game at all.

[Flam]

I'm glad that other people had problems with this. I'm a 34 year old man and felt stupid I couldn't figure out a game for 9 year olds.

[JSoup]

Considering the ordinary non-pogo jump provides very little height, I am amazed one could make any progress in the game at all.

I haven't played the game in a while, but as I recall you can semi-easily clear the first two thirds of the first level with normal jump. It's when you get to the last part that you'll have a really hard time and even then I think it's doable.

[Flam]

I later realized that some of you guys couldn't figure out how to use the two buttons on the NES gamepad. Thankfully games like NARC trained my button pressing skills.

Is there some special technique that's not in the manual that you can explain to me?

[treismac]

Considering the ordinary non-pogo jump provides very little height, I am amazed one could make any progress in the game at all.

The non-pogo jumps over enemies are tight, but doable. I just ran through most of the Amazon level without using the pogo bounce and there are different aspects that scream something is amiss if you don't know about this key move: many unreachable items in high places, having to take hits from the spiked floor as the ball comes rolling after you, having to shell out crazy stupid money for a lift to a vine [ladder] that is just out of reach with the inability to bounce off of the indigenous enemy's head. If I didn't know about the pogo jump, I would have written this game off as broke when I was a kid.


I haven't played the game in a while, but as I recall you can semi-easily clear the first two thirds of the first level with normal jump. It's when you get to the last part that you'll have a really hard time and even then I think it's doable.

Your memory fails you, good sir. There is no "first level" in Ducktales. You select levels ala Mega Man which is odd because I always thought that Mega Man was made by Capcom and Ducktales is a ... oh yeah.

[JSoup]

Your memory fails you, good sir. There is no "first level" in Ducktales. You select levels ala Mega Man which is odd because I always thought that Mega Man was made by Capcom and Ducktales is a ... oh yeah.

Let me qualify that, I tend to think of the Amazon level at the first level. Indeed most times I've seen the game played/streamed the player seems to tackle Amazon first. Similar to how many people start with Gutsman's level in Mega Man, something about both levels just scream "We're the first one, stupid." I imagine it's because the cursor defaults to those levels right from boot up in both cases.

[buzz_n64]

Is there some special technique that's not in the manual that you can explain to me?

There is no special move that I know of, I thought you were insinuating that there was one that you couldn't figure out. Anyways, I had the game as a kid, never had the manual, and somehow figured out on my own how to pogo jump on enemies.

[Jorpho]

Do you actually have to hold down both buttons the whole time in the NES version? On the Game Boy you just have to start pressing B while you're in the air.

[treismac]

Do you actually have to hold down both buttons the whole time in the NES version? On the Game Boy you just have to start pressing B while you're in the air.

Down and B initiates the pogo jump while in midair on the NES version of Ducktales. Once you've landed your first pogo jump, you can release Down on the d-pad and simply hold the B button to continue pogo jumping.