This game looks pretty good and plays pretty well too, although it's not perfect. It's a shame this didn't get a Western release.
For most of the game, Left and Right move left and right, Down looks down, Up looks up, B jumps, and holding Y allows you to run. Donald Duck takes a second before moving faster. Keep that in mind. Also, A lets you perform an action, and that differs depending on where you are in the game.
The game begins with Donald Duck and Daisy Duck (no relation) walking in the city when they come across a hat shop and a hat that Daisy really likes. Donald finds out that the hat is really expensive, and Daisy realizes that she could never afford it herself. Donald, having no money, decides to do some odd jobs to get the hat for Daisy's birthday that is coming up. (Press A to cycle through the text in cutscenes.)
You'll then have a choice of four jobs, and you'll need to collect $300 for the hat. You can beat this part in two levels, and the most you can do before getting all the money is three. I will go ahead and do all four jobs for the purposes of this Let's Play and blog series.
Time Attack! Go! Go - $120
This is the hardest job out of the four. It is an obstacle course that you'll have to beat in a very limited time in order to win the game and beat the money. Despite being the hardest job of the four, it gives the least amount of money.
When you choose this option, you'll be on a game show with an obstacle course, and Goofy will be the host. Donald will find out that he has to beat the course record set by Huey and get to the finish line in one minute or less. If you need to give up at any time, you can press A and select "yes" when the game asks if you want to give up. This will cost you a life, however.
To get past the trapezes that you have to swing on, you'll need to jump into them, then press B when Donald's legs are all the way out in front of him in the direction that he is facing. You'll need to do this for the first and third set of trapezes (which I call rods here), but for the second set, you'll also have to hold forward on the Control Pad while pressing B at the same time as with the other sets.
The yellow pools of liquid will slow you down, and the pools of water contain sharks that will stun you for a moment before knocking you into the air due solely to Donald avoiding being eaten. There is at least one dead end where you'll have to use the shark to get over the wall.
The blocks with the arrows will send you in the direction where they are pointing when you touch them, and it can be to your benefit if the direction is right. (I don't mention these in the Let's Play, so they're getting mentioned here.)
If you run down a slope, you'll pick up some major speed, and if you keep running forward, you'll run up the wall. This will come in handy later.
Whenever you complete a level, you'll get a password. The first two spaces are always characters, while the second two spaces are generic places.
Paperboy - $140
Your task in this level is to ride a bike all over town and put notices in all the mailboxes. Hold Right on the D-Pad to speed up, press B to jump, and press A near a mailbox to put the notice in the mailbox. If a mailbox is open and has a yellow arrow pointing down above it, that means you have yet to put the notice in the mailbox. Some of the residents also live in air balloons, and you'll need to get up to the baskets where the people in the balloons are to give out the notices.
If you keep going all the way to the right and take the lowest path at the start (which is the brown brick building with the fancy door), you'll go all the way to a wall that Donald will keep riding up in order to get to the balloon people. If you bounce off the tops of the balloons, you can get to other balloons if you can control Donald's speed correctly. This will allow you to give notices to the other balloon people.
If you pass a doghouse with eyes in it, the dog inside will chase after you. Hold Right to speed up and get past the dog, but keep an eye out for mailboxes. There is also a guy in a red convertible driving around, and you only see him in one specific spot. Be ready to jump over him with the B button.
To go up a hill, you have to jump onto it. You can then go up the hill from there.
Once you deliver all of the notices, you'll complete the level.
Chicken will restore health. A chicken leg will restore one hit, two chicken legs restore two hits, and a whole chicken restores a whole bar. You'll have two levels of health in the health bar in the upper-left corner: a yellow one and a red one. Eventually, you'll be able to get a third blue level a little bit later. Next to your health is the amount of lives you have left. At the upper-right corner will sometimes be something like the amount of time you have left in Time Attack! Go Go! or how many things you have to deal with for a certain objectives, such as how many notices you have left to deliver on the bicycle stage.
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