Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse is a 2D Jump ' n' Run for Sega Mega Drive, Sega Mega - CD and Nintendo's SNES. The player plays the role of Mickey Mouse through various side-scrolling levels, which all feature classic Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1928 to 1990 represent and are designed according to this. The game was later released in Europe and Australia, also for Sony's PlayStation as Mickey's Wild Adventure. It is also the first game that was involved in the video game designer David Jaffe.

Development

The game was developed in collaboration between Disney and the software publisher Sony Image Soft and was first presented on 23 June 1994 as part of the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. Although there were earlier appearances by Disney characters in video games, for Mickey Mania but excerpts were first transferred from Disney animated films in a game. Disney animators created over 1,500 Cels exclusively for the game.

Originally Mickey Mania should appear in 1993 on the 65th birthday of Mickey Mouse. Since this would have brought only six months production time with them, they rejected this background and focused more on the concept to let Mickey go on a journey through his own cartoons. The game is thus a tribute to Mickey's whole cartoon career. It appeared in 1994, in the following year of Mickey's 65th birthday.

Game mechanics

As Mickey Mouse, it is important to eke out a different level, while opponents defeated by the pelting of marbles or jumping on their heads and puzzle-solving to overcome obstacles and the path thus be able to progress. At the end of each level, you encounter the Mickey Mouse of the respective cartoons.

Level environments

The levels are based on the following Classic Mickey Mouse Cartoons:

  • Steamboat Willie (1928 )
  • The Mad Doctor ( The Mad Doctor, 1933)
  • The Band Concert ( The Band Concert, 1935) - Bonus level in the Sega Mega Drive and Mega - CD version
  • The elk hunters ( Moose Hunters, 1937)
  • Lonely Ghosts ( Lonesome Ghosts, 1937)
  • Mickey and the Beanstalk ( Mickey and the Beanstalk, 1947)
  • The Prince and the Pauper ( The Prince and the Pauper, 1990)

Version differences

The four versions of the game differ in some respects from each other. So missing in the SNES version of the bonus level The Band Concert and the staircase sequence in The Mad Doctor, as well as some appearances of Pluto and additional special effects. The Mega - CD and PlayStation versions, however, have an additional sequence at the end of The Prince and the Pauper, Mickey in all six of Mickeys past level calls to defeat Karlo. In addition, Mickey speaks in these versions more situational dialogues. The graphics of the PlayStation version was also improved and added an extra sequence before completion of Mickey and the Beanstalk, where Willie Mickey before, is forced to flee the giant ( Willie the Giant ).

Trivia

Substituting the Japanese Mega Drive version in the U.S. or Europe mode appear on the message " Developed for use only with NTSC Mega Drive Systems " screen (Eng. " Only for use with NTSC Mega Drive designed systems "). If you compare the version after that, however, using an emulator on Japan, the message changes to " Oh ... This machine has some how become to NTSC Mega Drive system " (Eng. "Oh ... this console was a miraculously NTSC Mega -Drive system ").

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