I'll hold nothing back, kids. You will see the shocking conclusion of Duck Tales in all of its splendor. If you're too much of a wuss to handle the intensity that is the ending of Duck Tales, hit the back button on your browser, and go tell mommy your diaper needs changing. For the rest of you, prepare to be dazzled!

PART 1 - "The Set Up"

Prototype	Final Release

Got all the treasures? Not so! Glomgold, through an inexplicable act of, um, evildoing, magically transports your finds back to Transylvania, where it is guarded by the dreaded DRACULA DUCK. C'mon Capcom, even something as stupid as "Duckula" would've been better (oh wait, that's another cartoon). So once again we trudge back to the god forsaken ghost house of Transylvania. I won't even try to make sense of it any more.

PART 2 - "Battle of the Fogeys"

Dracula Duck is actually quite a bit harder in the prototype. Y'gotta pogo off the bats he tosses at you, and then pogo onto him. In the proto, the bats overreact to your own jumping, and more often than not, they fly out of pogo range. They're a bit slower to react in the final version, thus defeating any sense of challenge the game might have possessed.

Prototype	Final Release

Cursed Glomgold! How dare you stick my treasure atop a giant podium and then leave it so I have an easy chance to take it back!

PART 4 - "The World is Safe Once Again"

Hooray! Now for the greatest part of the game, which of course, is the ending cut scene. For your viewing convenience, click here to see the game's ending in the prototype, and then compare it with the ending in the final version. Animation Shop messed up the colors a bit, but I'm too lazy to fix 'em. I'll only say one thing about the prototype's ending: LOVE AND PEACE!

PART 3 - "Oops We Skipped Part 3"

Prototype	Final Release

Depending on how many hidden treasures you find, or just how much wealth you accumulate, the headlines will be different. I'm way too lazy to play through both final and proto version multiple times to show each variation... but thankfully the good people at The Cutting Room Floor are not lazy at all, and took the alternate ending screenshots below.

Alternate Ending 1 - Finding the Two Lost Treasures

Prototype	Final Release

If you manage to find the two "optional" treasures along the way, (and make a ton of money in the process) you'll be given this "best" ending with Scrooge on top of a pile of riches and a different newspaper headline.

Alternate Ending 2 - The "Moral" Victory

Prototype	Final Release

Behold! The fabled "bad ending" to Duck Tales that is somehow incredibly more difficult to achieve than the normal endings. All credit goes to The Cutting Room Floor for figuring out how to access the "Scrooge went broke" ending. They put together a video showing how it's done, which I've included below:

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