Duck Punt
By the time you’ve read the name and appreciated the pun, you’ve already
achieved an understanding of half of this game’s appeal. From there, little is
left to the imagination: two teams on an American football field take turns
with possession of a duck (rubber, presumably, given the distances achieved)
attempting to kick it (as the author ad-libs, a fowl ball ) to the goal
line… and victory!
In the C64 original you would specify the short or long punt, so as to not
drastically overshoot near the goal line and be forced to buy a new duck with
a point deduction. Also, sporadically the game would declare that an
interception had occurred (or, steady yourselves, an ab- duck -tion).
A modern remake has been produced for contemporary operating environments with
numerous interface and gameplay enhancements.
Duck Punt