![]() ![]() Personally, I’m a little bit more partial to the Capcom-developed SNES version. In 1993, David Perry had managed to make the most out of the 16 bit hardware available at the time by working with actual Disney animators and releasing the Genesis/Mega Drive version of the Aladdin videogame adaptation and, for the first time, managing to create big, bold sprites that emulated the movie’s animation perfectly (and on the weaker of the two main consoles to boot). It wasn’t the standard way of playing them, but this did allow me to discover, on my own, 16 bit gems like Gunstar Heroes, The Lost World, Quackshot, Comix Zone and, of course, Donald Duck in Maui Mallard/ Cold Shadow, which was released on the European Mega Drive only, as well as Brazil, in 1995 and was a year later followed by a vastly different port (as was sometimes the case with multiplatform titles back in the day) for the SNES, this time being granted a worldwide release.īut let’s go back a couple of years or so to 1993. Eventually I got myself a computer (oh Windows Me, what fun) and amassed a collection of old games given to me by brothers and friends of friends. Back then there was no Internet to speak of anywhere near me and my older brothers’ machines (Spectrum ZX, NES, Amiga) were no longer functional. This may be a touchy subject to some but part of my childhood was spent figuring out and playing with a few emulators based on systems like the Mega Drive, the NES or SNES. Well, fret not because Maui is nothing more than yet another alter ego of Donald Duck, something that us Europeans are probably more accustomed to thanks to the popularity of Disney comics (and especially his) over here. ![]() But who is this duck, and why does it look so familiar? ![]() “Giant metal spiders? Creepy ghost butlers? This thing could be deeper than anyone guessed… Might be time for a… Change of suit.”Īnd thus begins Maui Mallard’s odyssey. Hi, I’m not a native speaker, so feel free to point out any errors in the text. ![]()
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