onsdag 2 mars 2022

Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (Sega Mega Drive)

 

How gracious of them to show the furthest kids mostly will get.

Continued going through the games stored at my parents place, and the Sega Mega Drive games are all mine so at least no one else is nabbing them (like one of my sisters that gotten.... or more correctly taken our N64 games).  I guess I got Mickey Mania for being a Disney kid, and it looks fantastic and the music is really memorable, especially since it is rather long time ago since I played it and when the different stages came around I still could hum with it. Or at least as far as I got, cause as usual with these Disney games, the difficulty spikes goes through the roof and probably to cover up the fact that these are rather short games. 

So basically modern Mickey Mouse is travelling through time to rescue his past selves from their adventures. Sadly there is no overarching plot like Pete have done something that needs fixing. It just that you start at Steamboat Willy and goes through up to 1990 when the latest Mickey cartoon was released, which was The Prince and the Pauper. The game was released in 1994 and seems to be promotional material for a new Mickey cartoon that was released in 1995, and a belated attempt to release it for Mickey's 65 birthday in 1993. 

The furthest I got was Mickey and the Beanstalk from Fun and Fancy Free, which was the second to last level. Usually got killed by the spider at the segment before entering the giant Willy's castle. I think that had to be due to my arachnophobia, no problem today, but as a kid falling into a dark room, not registering the shadow and turning up the light and standing before a spider and the boss theme kicking in doesn't help me as much. So now I got past that, and kid me would probably never have handled the last level, with a lot of insta-kill moments like drowning if you  don't get that you gotta pump up a bath ring so that you can float to the top of a pit, climb a burning tower where a lot of enemies stand and shoots at you that you need to hit with marbles that are limited and you start with zero if you die. Of course, with time you could probably get past it, like how I played through the Lonesome Ghost stage (hate the damn water barrels part of it) and the Mad Doctor stage (the damn autoscroller part). Never found the hidden Band Camp stage.

I assume it's a black widow?

The game is a bit short and it would have been nice with maybe a stage from Fantasia or Mickey's Christmas Carol, making the jump from 1947 to 1990 not so empty. Plus if it was just a little longer maybe they would have toned down the difficulty. It was pretty much released for everything back in the day, Mega Drive, Mega CD, Playstation and SNES, but most seems to think SNES is a bit inferior since it's missing the bonus stage and such. You can get the Playstation version as a Playstation classic, which I also got, but I find the playstation 3 controller not being that good. Also, it comes up in Maui Mallard as well, why don't you get back your life on a new stage? It's a bit punish surviving a boss with a sliver of health and be thrown into the next dangerous stage. But, hey, kids need to toughen up I guess.

 

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