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Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick (also referred to as Duckman: The Legend of the Fall) is a CD-ROM point-and-click adventure game based on Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man, developed by the Illusions Gaming Company.
It was released on May 31st, 1997 for Windows 95. This game was rated T by the ESRB.
Gameplay[]
The gameplay is that of a standard point-and-click adventure. Players control Duckman after he's been fired and replaced on his own TV show. With guidance from his partner, Cornfed Pig, Duckman must take back control of his life and career.
Duckman can interact with and use collected items on various characters and objects. He can also engage with characters and objects in two ways: normally or angrily.
The game's storyline takes place throughout nine major locations, eight of which are accessible through the city map screen. These major locations become unlocked as the story progresses.
Being based on the popular animated sitcom, the game is filled with black humor.
Official Synopsis[]
Something fowl is screwing with Duckman.
The ace detective is now an out-of-luck duck. Duckman, famed private dick and wise-craking hero has just discovered his show is gone and so is his family. What fowl work is this? Scour the seamy underbelly of a city that doesn't care in more than 80 different scenes in 40 locations. Explore a zany, anything-can-happen world filled with humorous creatures, deadly traps, and more than 10,000 frames of animation.
Plot[]
The game begins with Cornfed acting as the narrator of the story. Taking refuge in a pit on a war-torn battlefield, Cornfed feels that it's his duty to inform regular viewers of Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man on how he got into this situation:
Starring in his own TV show has led private detective Duckman to become a celebrity. Now living a life of leisure, he abandons his family, his career, and Cornfed. Rather than showing up to episode rehearsals, Duckman has instead been living at the exclusive Abs 'N' Ass Health Spa in Beverly Hills for a month. Duckman turns on the TV above his hot tub and discovers that he's been fired and replaced by a new Duckman, who is much sexier and more heroic than the original.
Duckman gets kicked out of the spa for no longer being a celebrity, however he is able to make his way back in afterward in order to collect a box of matches. He then makes his way over to Paramount Studios to inquire about this New Duckman and hopefully get his show back. The studio's security guard had been previously instructed to let Duckman inside whenever he decided to come back, so he is promptly driven across the lot to speak with Paramount's CEO.
When Duckman arrives at Paramount's head office, the CEO is in the middle of a phone call; he speaks domineeringly and abusively to the person on the other end of the line, while also repeatedly grabbing a new piece of gum out of a package, chewing it, then sticking it to the side of his desk.
Duckman gets fed up with being ignored by the CEO and jumps on the desk, stealing the gum package. The CEO finally hangs up the phone (revealing that he was speaking to his own mother) and brings his attention to Duckman, referring to him as the "old Duckman".
Duckman then inquires about why he's been replaced, suggesting that it's because he's being given a huge movie deal. In Cornfed's words, "Duckman was suffering from a serious case of denial".
The CEO swiftly corrects Duckman, telling him that he's been fired because he "lacks talent, star appeal and presence. Plus [his] eyes aren't attached to [his] head—a recent poll shows that really creeps people out".
Duckman claims that the studio needs him and that he's the real star. If Paramount wasn't going to bring him back, then he and Cornfed would just get a better show at Warner Bros.
The CEO laughs and states that Cornfed has no interest in leaving the show despite Duckman's removal, meaning he's staying on the show without him. A quick videocall confirms Cornfed's decision.
Duckman has a hard time believing that his own trustworthy partner would desert him like this, but he's kicked out of the office before he can get more explanation. The New Duckman enters the room and punches Duckman, sending him flying out the window.
Narrator Cornfed makes a reappearance to represent a scene change.
Now feeling betrayed by the studio and by Cornfed himself, Duckman decides to go home and be comforted by his family. The Duckman Household becomes an unlockable main location on the game's map screen.
(TBA)
Duckman is about to commit suicide, being rejected by his family; however, his friend, Cornfed, asks him to return his place under the sun and take down the new Duckman.
After a series of humorous adventures, Duckman is able to gain access to the studio where the show is filming. There, he confronts his impersonator, who is revealed to be a robot, and is then destroyed.
The game culminates with Duckman opposing the one behind the whole impersonator plot: his archenemy, King Chicken.
Cast[]
- Micheal Gough as Duckman
- Tim Curry as King Chicken
- Gregg Berger as Cornfed
- Dweezil Zappa as Ajax
- Nancy Travis as Bernice
- Pat Musick as Fluffy and Uranus
- Elizabeth Daily as Mambo and Dante's Nephew
- Lani Minella as Charles, Dante's Niece, Spaceship computer and Women at the sex hotline
- Rick Calvert as New Duckman
- Steve Brodie
- Howard Margulies
- Gene Grillo
- Tommy Tallarico
- Darren Barlett
Development[]
The game's plot and dialogue were scripted over several days in meetings between the development team and the writers for the Duckman television show.
The game was developed on the Illusions Gaming Company's usual adventure game engine, though modified to allow the developers to script directly into the program.
Jason Alexander, who voiced Duckman in the television show, turned down the role for the video game. Playing Duckman painfully strained Alexander's voice, and as such he felt the game's script, which included over five times as many lines for his part as he had in a typical episode of the show, would be too much for him. Veteran actor Michael J. Gough provides his voice for Duckman instead.
The remainder of the show's cast all reprised their roles for the game.
Whereas the full version was released exclusively for Windows, the demo bundled in the Playmates Interactive sampler CD was produced in DOS format.
Trivia[]
- The German release of this title is called Duckman: Ente süß-sauer.
- Said to be one of the rarest CD-ROMs in existence, due to its limited release.
- A PlayStation port was planned, but was cancelled.
- Early on in the game, Duckman makes a crack about how he thinks Jon Lovitz is annoying.