Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions

Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions
Box art
Developer(s)	ICOM Simulations, Inc.[1]
Publisher(s)	Sunsoft of America[1]
Distributor(s)	Nintendo
Designer(s)	Brian Babendererde[1] Michael Garber[1]
Artist(s)	Todd M. Papaleo[1]
Composer(s)	Nu Romantic Productions[1]
Platform(s)	Super NES Game Boy
Release date(s)	Super NES: NA October 1993[2] EU April 28, 1994[2] Game Boy: JP September 30, 1994[3] NA January 1995[3] EU 1995[3]
Genre(s)	2D platform action[2][3] (sci-fi/retro-futuristic)
Mode(s)	Single-player
Media/distribution	8-megabit cartridge

Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (known in the European Game Boy version as Daffy Duck) is an action video game for the Super NES and Game Boy that involves Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a ½ Century, as told in the classic Looney Tunes stories created by Chuck Jones. Greg Burson was the voice of Daffy Duck in the Super NES version of the game. Most of the people who would go on to make Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage would design and develop this video game.^[1]

Gameplay

Duck Dodgers himself has some funny one-line jokes. When he is hit he will say some of Daffy Duck's more infamous lines from the 1950s like Mother and You're despicable, voiced by Greg Burson.^[1] The player starts out at a resort on Mars (complete with a lava swimming pool and the layout of a 1950s North American motel), and then the stages grow more surreal from there. Shrinking rays and crushing platforms are commonly seen as the player tries to kill Martians that are standing in his way. In the end, Marvin the Martian must be destroyed in the final stage of the game. The game is actually very well put together. He has infinite ammo for his starting gun.

However, Dodgers can find or buy more for other guns (there are five types of guns, the regular gun, the three-shot gun, the electric gun, the bomb gun, and the antimatter gun) throughout the game with the game's fictional cash ($) unit. Dodgers actually has a jet pack so he can fly around should the danger on the ground be too much to handle. A shield to block incoming projectiles as well as a special little thing called a Nutty which is like a special weapon where Duck Dodgers goes insane killing everything on the screen.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions credits information at MobyGames
2. ^ ^{a b c} Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions SNES release information at GameFAQs
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions Game Boy release information at GameFAQs