Computer Game
A game of Edd the Duck was released by Zeppelin Games on their full-price Impulze label and later re-released as a budget title by Zeppelin themselves. It was released in 1990 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 and in 1991 for the Amiga. Its graphics and gameplay were inspired by the arcade game Rainbow Islands. The game received mixed reviews, the ZX Spectrum version received good reviews including an 83% rating from Crash and Your Sinclair, while the Amiga version got very poor reviews, with Amiga Power calling it "one of the most primitive attempts at a platform game seen". The ZX Spectrum version contained a bug which meant the game was impossible to complete, you had to collect 20 stars in each level to progress, but in level 7 there were only 19 stars.
The sequel "Edd the Duck 2: Back with a Quack!" was released in 1992 on the Amiga. It was even more poorly received than the first game, with one reviewer saying "I haven't seen a game this awful in a very long time" and that it "somehow manages to be even worse than the first Edd The Duck game".
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