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* FirstPersonSnapshooter: Webby's stages have you controlling her and taking photographs of animals to sell for money, with photos of rare animals like pink elephants earning you more.
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* WarpWhistle: Finding the mineral bombastium allows Gyro to build a matter transfer unit, letting you skip the flying stages by teleporting to a location instantly. Unfortunately, sometimes it malfuctions and sends you to the wrong location.

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* WarpWhistle: Finding the mineral bombastium allows Gyro to build a matter transfer unit, letting you skip the flying stages by teleporting to a location instantly. Unfortunately, sometimes it malfuctions malfunctions and sends you to the wrong location.
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* WarpWhistle: Finding the material bombastium allows Gyro to build a matter transfer unit, letting you skip the flying stages by teleporting to a location instantly. Unfortunately, sometimes it malfuctions and sends you to the wrong location.

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* WarpWhistle: Finding the material mineral bombastium allows Gyro to build a matter transfer unit, letting you skip the flying stages by teleporting to a location instantly. Unfortunately, sometimes it malfuctions and sends you to the wrong location.
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* WarpWhistle: Finding the material bombastium allows Gyro to build a matter transfer unit, letting you skip the flying stages by teleporting to a location instantly. Unfortunately, sometimes it malfuctions and sends you to the wrong location.
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* ContinuingIsPainful: If you crash the plane in a flying stage, you still get to the location, but lose a few days while Gyro repairs it. You also lose some money in the crash, unless you already dropped it off at the weighing scales.
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* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Based on money-related terms - Easy Standard, Standard Wages, and Hard Earned Cash.

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* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Based on money-related terms - Easy Standard, Money, Standard Wages, and Hard Earned Cash.
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''[=DuckTales=]: The Quest for Gold'' is a LicensedGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' show developed by Incredible Technologies and released for the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AppleII, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer in 1990. It puts the player in the role of Scrooge [=McDuck=] who has been challenged by Flintheart Glomgold to earn more money than him within 30 days, to prove who's the richest duck in the world and deserves a place on the ''Dime'' magazine's cover.

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''[=DuckTales=]: The Quest for Gold'' is a LicensedGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' show developed by Incredible Technologies and released for the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AppleII, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, Platform/{{Amiga}}, Platform/AppleII, Platform/AtariST, Platform/Commodore64, and UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer Platform/IBMPersonalComputer in 1990. It puts the player in the role of Scrooge [=McDuck=] who has been challenged by Flintheart Glomgold to earn more money than him within 30 days, to prove who's the richest duck in the world and deserves a place on the ''Dime'' magazine's cover.
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* CopyProtection: You have to decode a message with a guide in the manual to prove you're not a Beagle Boy. According to the manual, The Control Center in Scrooge’s Office is protected by Gyro Gearloose’s Super Anti-Spy Security System. It prevents Glomgold’s henchmen, the Beagle Boys, from stealing Scrooge’s business secrets.

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* CopyProtection: You If you access the control center in Scrooge’s office for the first time, you have to decode a message with a guide in the manual to prove you're not a Beagle Boy. According to the manual, The Control Center the control center in Scrooge’s Office office is protected by Gyro Gearloose’s Super Anti-Spy Security System. It prevents Glomgold’s henchmen, the Beagle Boys, from stealing Scrooge’s business secrets.
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* CopyProtection: You have to decode a message with a guide in the manual to prove you're not a Beagle Boy.

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* CopyProtection: You have to decode a message with a guide in the manual to prove you're not a Beagle Boy. According to the manual, The Control Center in Scrooge’s Office is protected by Gyro Gearloose’s Super Anti-Spy Security System. It prevents Glomgold’s henchmen, the Beagle Boys, from stealing Scrooge’s business secrets.
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''[=DuckTales=]: The Quest for Gold'' is a LicensedGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' show released for the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AppleII, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer in 1990. It puts the player in the role of Scrooge [=McDuck=] who has been challenged by Flintheart Glomgold to earn more money than him within 30 days, to prove who's the richest duck in the world and deserves a place on the ''Dime'' magazine's cover.

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''[=DuckTales=]: The Quest for Gold'' is a LicensedGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' show developed by Incredible Technologies and released for the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AppleII, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer in 1990. It puts the player in the role of Scrooge [=McDuck=] who has been challenged by Flintheart Glomgold to earn more money than him within 30 days, to prove who's the richest duck in the world and deserves a place on the ''Dime'' magazine's cover.
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''[=DuckTales=]: The Quest for Gold'' is a LicensedGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' show released in 1990. It puts the player in the role of Scrooge [=McDuck=] who has been challenged by Flintheart Glomgold to earn more money than him within 30 days, to prove who's the richest duck in the world and deserves a place on the ''Dime'' magazine's cover.

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''[=DuckTales=]: The Quest for Gold'' is a LicensedGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' show released for the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}, UsefulNotes/AppleII, UsefulNotes/AtariST, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, and UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer in 1990. It puts the player in the role of Scrooge [=McDuck=] who has been challenged by Flintheart Glomgold to earn more money than him within 30 days, to prove who's the richest duck in the world and deserves a place on the ''Dime'' magazine's cover.
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* PunctutedForEmphasis: There are noticeable breaks between Scrooge's words when he says "fair and square!"

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* PunctutedForEmphasis: PunctuatedForEmphasis: There are noticeable breaks between Scrooge's words when he says "fair and square!"
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''[=DuckTales=]: The Quest for Gold'' is a LicensedGame based on the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' show released in 1990. It puts the player in the role of Scrooge [=McDuck=] who has been challenged by Flintheart Glomgold to earn more money than him within 30 days, to prove who's the richest duck in the world and deserves a place on the ''Dime'' magazine's cover.

The game has you select the location you want to travel to, which is then done in Launchpad [=McQuack=]s plane. After it's done, you play one of several minigames and attempt to win them to find treasures located in the area. This gameplay loop is done for the rest of the game.
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* AntiIdling: Standing too long in one in one place in the caves minigame causes a Beagle Boy to show up and drop an anvil on the controlled nephew.
* BigDamnHeroes: If you end up falling or getting caught by a mummy in a cave, Launchpad [=McQuack=] shows up and saves the day.
* CopyProtection: You have to decode a message with a guide in the manual to prove you're not a Beagle Boy.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: If Scrooge and the nephews go into a pit in the cave, they stand on it, look down, and realise they're about to fall.
* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Based on money-related terms - Easy Standard, Standard Wages, and Hard Earned Cash.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: The bad ending shown when Glomgold has more cash than Scrooge by the end of the month, which has Glomgold on the cover of the ''Dime'' magazine and the playable ducks being sad.
* JustifiedExtraLives: The hiking minigame has the nephews counts as extra lives, and when one of them falls, another one tries again from the start.
* PianoDrop: A hot air balloon may drop a piano on Launchpad's plane.
* PunctutedForEmphasis: There are noticeable breaks between Scrooge's words when he says "fair and square!"
* TimedMission: Scrooge has 30 days during which he must make more money than Glomgold.
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