Mickey Mania

Mickey Mania is a video game that consists of 1 release

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With detailed animation, fun gameplay, and immense challenge, Mickey Mania will keep you entertained... That is, if you don't go insane.

Background

Mickey Mania (Mickey's Wild Adventure on the PlayStation) has players guide Mickey through various levels, all of which are based on classic Mickey Mouse Cartoons dating from 1928 to 1990. The game is basically the same across all platforms, however there are some minor differences. The Sega CD version for example, adds CD-quality audio and an extra boss battle whilst the SNES version excludes the tower sections.

Mickey's Wild Adventure (The PlayStation release), only available in Europe and Australia, also featured CD-quality audio and had improved graphics over the original releases.

The game was originally intended as a celebration of Mickey Mouse's 65th Birthday Celebration, but was pushed back in order to allow more time for development. This also led to the game's premise as released in which Mickey travels back to his previous cartoons.

Gameplay

Mickey Mania is a fairly typical side-scrolling platform game. Players guide Mickey from left to right through levels, passing obstacles through jumping or solving puzzles. Enemies can be defeated either by jumping on them or by throwing marbles at them. The game is famously difficult, some say feel much too difficult for its intended audience. A lot of this difficulty is because some of the game requires a lot of precise timing and many of the enemies are hard to defeat without taking damage.

Cartoons Featured as Levels

There are a total of 7 levels to play through in Mickey Mania

Steamboat Willie

Starts out in black and white. As the level continues, it gradually gains more color until the level is rendered in full color.

The Mad Doctor

Fairly generic haunted house level featuring appropriate enemies. Level is in full color despite the cartoon having been black and white.

The Band Concert

This is a secret bonus level in which players must navigate to the top of a tornado. This is basically one of the tower sections and as such does not feature in the SNES version.

Moose Hunters

Players follow Pluto (In the cartoon, Goofy and Donald were alongside Mckey, not Pluto) through this level. Enemies including moose who charge at Mickey and there are environmental hazards too such as falling branches.

Lonesome Ghosts

This level features the titular lonesome ghosts who attempt to halt Mickey's progress with all sorts of tricks and jokes. This level has some tricky sections and memorable section where water levels rise and fall.

Mickey and the Beanstalk

This level forces Mickey to "do some gardening" and has him contend with not just a giant (Additionally, an escape section featuring the giant is in CD versions, though not others) but also a giant spider. This level features the only friendly NPC in the game apart from various Mickeys and Pluto - a ladybug who helps Mickey escape the spider.

The Prince and the Pauper

The game makes a large jump in time to feature The Prince and the Pauper (43 years). This level features the most difficult combat in the game, including a boss battle aganst a very powerful Pete which has two stages.

General Information Edit

Game Name	Mickey Mania
Platform(s)	Genesis SNES PlayStation Sega CD
Publisher(s)	Sony Electronic Publishing Ltd.
Developer(s)	Traveller's Tales Ltd.
Genres	Add a new genre Action Platformer
Themes	Add a new theme
Original US Release	need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	1994 know the real date?
Aliases	Mickey's Wild Adventure