You'd think the Game Boy version would be much like the NES version. It mostly is...with a few concessions. Still worth checking out, though.
If you've played through the NES version of this game, you'll know what to do here: pick a difficulty, pick one of five worlds, then go through them all as Uncle Scrooge, beat them all and hopefully win the game with more than $10 million to stay the richest duck in the world. The only difference is that the levels are pretty scrunched up, the game sounds a little different and getting out of the mine carts is a pain in the ass (more on that later).
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At the top of the screen, you have your total amount of money, your current amount of lives, your current amount of money, your current hit points and the amount of time you have left.
Left and Right let you move around, Down crouches and A jumps. Holding Down and pressing B lets you do a pogo stick attack, and you can continue to hold B while moving left or right to continue bouncing in that direction. The pogo stick attack allows you to defeat enemies and break chests to get the items inside. If you bounce around, you can also find hidden treasures. Up and Down lets you grab onto a vine and climb up and down it.
Hitting things by holding the D-Pad towards them and pressing B can sometimes give you treasures. Try it out. Jewels with dark outlines are worth more with lighter outlines.
Ice cream cones replenish one hit point. Cakes refill three hit points. Scrooge McDuck dolls give you extra lives.
The spiders move up and down, and you'll need to whack the boulders with Forward+B to send them diagonally into the air. Use the pogo stick attack to bounce over spike pits.
Sometimes you can pogo up to the top of walls and move further. This will allow yo enter some hidden rooms.
The bees with move up and down as they fly forward, and you can pogo attack off the top of them if you can time it right.
The man-eating plants cannot be beaten with the pogo stick attack, so don't even try.
Use the pogo stick attack to reach Launchpad's rope underneath his plane, and press Up to grab the rope. When you drop down, keep going to cross the fallaway bridge.
If you see Launchpad outside of his plan, you can ride back to Duckberg and pick another stage. You'll also bank the current amount of money you have. If you go back to the stage where you met Launchpad before and try to meet with him again, you'll find out he's gone (just like on NES).
The spear guys will throw their spears. Jump over the spears and pogo the guys in the head.
There is a statue that will force you to pay $300,000 of your current money to pass through, but if you go left from where you start seeing the spear guys, you'll find a shortcut that takes you straight to the boss.
The boss here is a giant statue that moves back and forth and jumps up to shake the ground every so often. Hit it with a pogo attack to the top of the head when it is on the ground, and jump up to avoid being stunned by the earthquake from the statue's jump. After four hits, you'll get the chest that contains the scepter. The main treasure for each stage gives you an instant $1 million.
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