''Duck Maze'' is a
puzzle-platform game
A platform game (often simplified as platformer and sometimes called a jump 'n' run game) is a sub-genre of action video games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment. Platform games are charac ...
developed and published by
Bit Corporation
Bit Corporation () was a Taiwanese game developer and console manufacturer.
Games
Bit Corporation produced original software for the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, which it released worldwide under both its own name and the Puzzy brand, as well a ...
in 1987, making it the first
Nintendo
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Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
unlicensed game released for
Famicom
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(internationally known as
NES
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). The title was later published in 1990 by
HES and Dismac, respectively in
Australia
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and
Brazil
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.
Gameplay
''Duck Maze'' is a
clone of ''
Doki Doki Penguin Land
''Doki Doki Penguin Land'' is a series of puzzle platform games developed and published by Sega, and which began in 1985. All games in the series feature a very similar formula whereby players guide an egg to the bottom of a level by moving or de ...
'' by
Sega
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, originally released in 1985 on
SG-1000
The is a home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was Sega's first entry into the home video game hardware business. Developed in response to a downturn in arcades starting in 1982, the SG-1000 was created on the advice of Hayao Nakay ...
and
MSX
MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by Microsoft and ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Eastern sector, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, then vice-p ...
, in which the player control a duck to guide an egg downwards of its 20 levels by moving or destroying blocks. Furthermore, one of the three lives available can be lost when this egg touch an enemy or when it breaks down falling too high.
External links
Duck Mazeat GameFAQs
1987 video games
Bit Corporation games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Single-player video games
Unauthorized video games
Video game clones
Video games developed in Taiwan
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