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Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular

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Also known as
Donald Duck Snoopy

Compete in six whimsical athletic events like boot throwing and pizza balancing.

Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular is the North American NES version of the Famicom game Donald Duck, originally released in Japan in 1988. The NES version was released in North America in 1990.


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Released
1990
Original release
1988
Genre
Perspective
Side view
Size
256.02 KB
Rating
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About Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular

Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular! is a sports compilation for the Nintendo Entertainment System featuring characters from the Peanuts comic strip. The setting for these unconventional competitions is Italy, where Snoopy arrives by plane with his brother Spike and the bird Woodstock.

Gameplay involves a series of athletic events designed for one or two players. These include a race while inside potato sacks, a boot throwing contest similar to a hammer toss, and a pogo stick event requiring hops over barriers. Other activities involve trying to knock an opponent off a boat, balancing stacks of pizza while walking, and using a pole to vault across a river.

The game originated in Japan with a different license, using Donald Duck characters, though the underlying mechanics were identical. The design of these events is based on the concept of Alternative World Games.

Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular Screenshots

10 images
Title Screen
Developer/Publisher; In the US version,
Introduction, showing Snoopy's flight from America to Italy
Main menu
The Sack Race event
Sack hop across the street area to the finish line
Pause; In the US version the pause colors were changed from dark yellow to dark red.
Snoopy has won the sack race!
The Boot Throwing event
The boot throwing is just like a hammer toss only a hammer is too heavy for Snoopy