PrinceWatercress plays Duck Shoot/Treasure Island/Kampf um die Schatzinsel - The Longplay

At least it makes for an easy longplay to make...

Let's Play

Here's a rather obscure game for the Atari 2600. You play as a pirate ship and you shoot things down as you make your way to an island with two mermaids near it that supposedly has treasure on it. There's not much to figure out about the game other than it's made by some company known as Suntek and that the game was made somewhere in Europe and converted from PAL format.

Left and Right on the joystick let you move left and right, but only when you're at the island. Up and Down let you move up or down. Holding Right and pressing the fire button lets you fire cannonballs from your cannons. Holding the fire button and pressing Up and Down on the joystick let you aim the cannon, and the higher your cannon is aimed when you fire a cannonball and hit something, the more points you'll get from it. The rival ships give you most points, while the sharks and whales will give you less. Also, your cannonball can't just touch the target; your target has to be where the cannonball lands in the water in order to take damage and disappear.

You'll start off heading towards the famed Treasure Island the game is somewhat named after and shooting down enemies as you go. You have six lives to work with, but as long as you're careful, being shot down isn't too much of a problem, especially since it takes a lot of damage to lose one life. When you see the two mermaids on the You'll get exactly 2,519 points for reaching the island, then you go through the motions with the game again.

Only the left difficulty switch is used with this game. With the switch on B/Novice, only the bombs from rival ships can kill you, and you'll be able to earn extra lives...which is really easy to do in this game. On A/Expert, everything will be able to kill you, including all the fish, and you won't be able to earn extra lives. It doesn't seem to affect the difficulty of the game, as far as I can tell.

This is a rather strange game. It's a bit too easy to play even for an Atari 2600 game, the music is some of the weirdest/worst I've ever heard (and I'm not quite sure which of those two words I want to use), and once you play through one loop of the game, you've pretty much played all of them. There is not much here that is going to bring you back, but at the same time...E for effort? Buy it if you want, but there's not much here.