Donald Duck's Playground

Donald Duck's Playground is a computer game for the Commodore 64, based on the Walt Disney cartoon and comic book character Donald Duck. It was also ported to the IBM PCjr, Apple II, Atari ST and Amiga. It was designed by Al Lowe, who went on to create the Leisure Suit Larry series.

The player takes the role of Donald Duck, whose job is to earn money so that he can buy playground items for his nephews. To do this, Donald can get himself a job in any of four different places: a greengrocer's, a railroad, a toy shop or an airport. Each job shift lasts from one to eight minutes, as the player wants, in which time Donald has to earn as much as he can.

The jobs

Donald has a different task at each job. He earns a set amount for each part of his job; on the Intermediate level, these wages are doubled; on the Advanced level, these wages are tripled.

The greengrocer's

Donald is responsible for sorting vegetables thrown to him from the back of a pick-up truck in three different boxes. One of the boxes is for watermelons, one is for pumpkins, and one is for cantaloupes. Each vegetable gets thrown at a randomly chosen distance. Donald has to catch it and put it in the correct box. Failing to catch the vegetable or putting it in the wrong box results in it being squashed and no money earned. Donald earns 1 cent for each vegetable correctly sorted.

The toy shop

Donald is responsible for putting toys given to him from a conveyor belt in the correct place on a shelf. Every 80 seconds......

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