Charlie the Duck (DOS) - It's not Mario it's a Duck - Saturday Afternoon Gaming
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I'm Gaming Jay: Youtube gamer, let's player, fan of retro games, and determined optimist... Join me in this series while I try out EACH of the video games in the book 1001 VIDEO GAMES YOU MUST PLAY BEFORE YOU DIE, before I die. The game review for each game will focus on the question of whether you MUST play this game before you die. But to be honest, the game review parts are just for fun, and are not meant to be definitive, in depth reviews; this series is more about the YouTube gamer journey itself. From Mario games to the Halo series, from arcade games to Commodore 64, PC games to the NES and Sega Genesis, Playstation to the Xbox, let's play those classic retro games that we grew up with, have fond memories of, or heard of but never got a chance to try! And with that said, the game review for today is...
Charlie the Duck
from https://wieringsoftware.com/games/charlie-the-duck/
Charlie the Duck is a small platform game for the PC about a cute duck named Charlie. In this game you must guide Charlie through different levels, gather coins and diamonds and watch out for dangerous enemies. Charlie can swim in the water and even dive to discover hidden areas!
About Mario PC
from http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/mario/
This is a Super Mario Bros. clone with six levels, written in Turbo Pacal. I wrote this game to practice VGA programming. My goal was to create a PC game with parallax scrolling layers, that would run smoothly on my 486 computer (25 MHz). I didn't plan to release this Mario game, instead use the engine to make other (more original) games.
However, an old beta version of this Mario game (with only four levels, unfinished) somehow ended up being spread around. I was quite surprised to find someone selling disks with my Mario clone (well, at least the screen shot was unmistakably from my game) at a computer fair years later! Of course I bought a disk to see what was on it.
It turned out to be a modified version of my game. In fact someone had actually changed it into shareware, modified the executable, added documentation and even a registration form, asking $15!
This hacked beta version (with no exit in the fourth level) spread all over the world. In fact, you are still likely to find it on shareware CD-ROMS and on several websites. Eventually, I decided to release my version with the complete source code.
Even though this is a DOS game from 1994, many people still enjoy playing it. I recently found a picture of Tiger Woods playing my Mario game during an interview on television: http://www.wieringsoftware.nl/mario/woods.html