Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
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Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
I remember playing this as a young'un round at a friends after school but never ever owned my own Mega Drive up until last year, I frequently go in the charity shops in Bedford and a couple of months back found The Terminator, Lemmings and this at £6 for the lot, of course I snapped them up, but have barely played them despite knowing that I really enjoyed CoI in the past, my fiance spent yesterday playing it however and now loves it despite thefact she thinks its rather hard.
Like I said, I've not given it much of a play since buying it so I cant comment but what does everyone else think of one of the few decent Disney games?
Like I said, I've not given it much of a play since buying it so I cant comment but what does everyone else think of one of the few decent Disney games?
A great little platformer - I remember playing it when it first came out, and I don't remember it being particularly tough, but I was much younger then, and probably had razor-sharp reflexes 
I think my favourite level was "Toy-Town" where you could make the screen flip upside-down.
As one of the earlier Megadrive games I think it really stood out as it had significantly better graphics and sound effects than what had come before - sadly my copy has long since gone as I traded a whole bunch of great games for a Mega-CD... whata mistake-a-to-make-a!

I think my favourite level was "Toy-Town" where you could make the screen flip upside-down.
As one of the earlier Megadrive games I think it really stood out as it had significantly better graphics and sound effects than what had come before - sadly my copy has long since gone as I traded a whole bunch of great games for a Mega-CD... whata mistake-a-to-make-a!
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Its a nice game, but I prefer World of Illusion. That's possibly just me, seeing as I had WOI and not COI at the time.
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Prefered WOI (First MD game I owned, came as the pack in with my spanking new MD2) to COI (although I have a sneaking admiration for the MAster System version of COI).
Quackshot was great. Wonderful graphics, great music, and just about pitched perfectly re: difficulty.
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The steamboat willy one is Mickey Mania, IIRC.
Quackshot was great. Wonderful graphics, great music, and just about pitched perfectly re: difficulty.
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The steamboat willy one is Mickey Mania, IIRC.
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Shows how good women are at games, this I think is the first Megadrive game I completed. Took only a few hours. Good game though. Quackshots is great too, a bit harder. Shame about Fantasia though, thats not good.RivaOni wrote: my fiance spent yesterday playing it however and now loves it despite thefact she thinks its rather hard.

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I actually had both COI and Quakshot on one SMD cartridge. There were both good games.
The other Disney games I also liked were Aladdin (Amiga being the best) and The Lion King (SMD version this time - the Amiga version felt unfinished
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The other Disney games I also liked were Aladdin (Amiga being the best) and The Lion King (SMD version this time - the Amiga version felt unfinished

Everything, apart from that it's a platformer based on the Disney movie 'Aladdin'!paranoid marvin wrote:Anyone know what the actual differences are?

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Sorry, just talking about women in general.RivaOni wrote:Her gendres got nothing to do with it, she wsnt a gamer in the 2D game and didn't really get into them until she beat Kingdom Hearts, something I havent done, in fact the only thing she has left to beat on KH is Sephiroth

from that brief era of MegaDrive Disney Platformers, I think they did a fairly good job.
Castle of Illusion was great , world of Illusion better, Lion King , Jungle Book and Aladdin were also all good games.
Nowadays they have gone all 3D such as Over the hedge and have lost that Charm the older games had.
Castle of Illusion was great , world of Illusion better, Lion King , Jungle Book and Aladdin were also all good games.
Nowadays they have gone all 3D such as Over the hedge and have lost that Charm the older games had.
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