Today's Gintendo plan: Billionaire ducks, Millionaire cocktails
I've been a little lax on streaming lately, I realize, but I'm back in action this afternoon. The next Gintendo broadcast will take place this evening at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT), and will feature a highly relevant game: Disney's DuckTales. Ah, but this isn't the game that just saw a re-release last week via the excellent Disney Afternoon Collection! (Review forthcoming, by the way.) This is the game that was acknowledged in the Collection but not included, which is to say, the Game Boy port.
As usual, you can watch this afternoon on YouTube.
I'll be digging into the design of DuckTales for Game Boy in an episode of Game Boy Works next month, but in the meantime, I'm going to try and complete this game for once. I skipped DuckTales back in the day; the wretched Mickey Mousecapade turned me off to the prospect of pairing Disney and Capcom altogether, so I missed out on a game that turned out to be pretty good. So I've never actually finished DuckTales, just played it in fits and starts since first trying it out a few years ago (but never in fits and finishes, if you see what I'm saying). Maybe today will be the day? Or if not, you can at least marvel at a rare NES-to-Game Boy conversion done right.
This being Gintendo, I could think of no more appropriate drink pairing for a game starring Scrooge McDuck than the classic Millionaire cocktail. Yes, I know, Millionaires don't contain gin, but whatever. Considering the scale of Scrooge's wealth, I suppose it would be more appropriate to go with Employees Only's variant recipe, the Billionaire, but that calls for a rather esoteric ingredient, absinthe bitters... so no go. Anyway, it's a classic game based on an even more classic comic, so the classic cocktail seems the way to go.
So join me! Or check in sometime later to watch the archive! It's all the same in the end.
