 This game finally explains how Quickclaw is able to speak. As a  character, Quickclaw was first introduced in the animated program  _"Saturday Supercade" (1983)_ (qv) during the "Pitfall!" segment. In  that program, he was a talking, cowardly mountain lion with a patch  over one eye. In this game, hes a talking jaguar who explains how  he acquired the ability of human speech.