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Name: Disney's Adventures in the Magic Kingdom |
| Release Date: June 1990 | |
| Date Completed: N/A Incomplete | |
| Developer: Capcom | |
| Producer: Tokuro Fujiwara & Darlene Waddington | |
| Designer: Yoshinori Takenaka | |
| Composer: Yoko Shimomura | |
| Genre: Action/Sidescroller | |
| My Rating: 1/5 | |
| Pricecharting Page: Disney's Adventures in the Magic Kingdom | |
| Box Description: "This is your ticket to breath-taking Adventures in the Magic Kingdom! Join the exciting adventure as you search through the Magic Kingdom for the six silver keys that will unlock the Enchanted Castle. Use all your skills and resources to achieve your goal." | |
| Wiki Description: The game places the player as a nameless main character, for whom the player can enter a name at the start of the game, into a hub-and-spoke Disney park heavily based on the company's Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, and Tokyo Disneyland parks. Goofy left the golden key for the castle gate inside, and Mickey Mouse asks for the player's help to find six silver keys needed to open the Cinderella Castle gate and allow the Disney parade to begin. After completing this task, Mickey congratulates the player and the parade begins. | |
| My Image | Gameplay: The player must complete five different stages, modeled after rides in Disney theme parks, as well as a trivia quest in order to retrieve the set of keys. The player chooses which stage to play by walking around the park in the game's overworld map. The game features two vehicle stages with a top-down perspective. One of these stages is based on the Autopia ride and is a driving game in which the player must avoid various obstacles in a race against the villainous Panhandle Pete. The second, based on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, has the player controlling a train on a track and having to choose the right path to take while avoiding obstacles. There are also two side-scrolling stages. In the Haunted Mansion stage, the player must defeat ghosts by throwing candles at them to retrieve one of the keys. The other side-scrolling stage is based on Pirates of the Caribbean and the player must rescue six villagers from pirates who have raided an island. The Space Mountain stage is a first-person stage in which the player boards a spaceship with the mission to reach a certain star, maneuvering through asteroids while shooting enemy ships with a phaser. The trivia game is available to play at any time. Several children around the park ask the player questions about Disney films and characters; if these are answered correctly, the children will reveal the location of the final silver key. |
| My Review: This game very much falls under what I call "NES hard". I grew up with this game, and I was never able to finish any of the levels; I always either ended up dying or giving up before I could gather any of the keys. Most of my time was spent exploring the park and talking to various NPCs. This game is full of various glitches, and I really only own it at this point because it was one of my first video games. There is a STRONG possibility that I will never complete this game, as I don't have the patience for "NES hard". |