Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Mega Drive)

For other games with the same name, see Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse.

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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, PlayStation 3
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega R&D 6 M2
Distributor: Ecofilmes (PT) Tec Toy (BR) Samsung (KR)
Licensor: The Walt Disney Company
Sound driver: SMPS Z80
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1990-11-21 ¥4,8004,800 G-4042 US 1990-11-26 $49.9549.95 1015 EU 1991-03 1015 PT 199x UK 1991-03 £39.9939.99 1015 FI 199x SE (Rental) 199x AU 199x CA 199x BR 1991-06 043060 KR 199x GM4038JG SA 199x US ▼ 2013-08-20 PREpre

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, known as Castle of Illusion: Fushigi no Oshiro Daibouken or I Love Mickey Mouse: Fushigi no Oshiro Daibouken (アイラブミッキーマウス ふしぎのお城大冒険) in Japan. is a platform game developed by Sega R&D 6 for the Sega Mega Drive. It was released alongside a slightly different Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear version around the same time.

Those who pre-ordered the 2013 remake on PlayStation 3 received a port of the original Mega Drive version by M2.

Story

The witch Mizrabel has kidnapped and imprisoned Minnie to steal her youth. As he approaches the entrance of Mizrabel's castle, a mysterious old man appears and offers him assistance. Mickey is informed that he must defeat Mizrabel's henchmen, known as the Masters of Illusion, and their armies consisting of bizarre creatures such as enchanted mushrooms, toy soldiers, ball-juggling, unicycle-riding clowns, spiders, and armored knights. From them, Mickey must obtain the Seven Gems of the Rainbow, which will open up the route to witch's throne room.

Gameplay

Castle of Illusion is a side-scrolling platform game. Mickey can move with and and jump with . Mickey jumps higher if is held for longer. He can crouch with . Mickey can defeat enemies with a bounce attack by pressing or again whilst jumping. He can bounce upwards towards higher areas by continuing to hold until the enemy is hit. Mickey can also slide down slopes using his bounce attack. Mickey can also collect projectiles such as apples and marbles to throw at his opponents with or . There are various items that earn bonus points, increase the player's health and grant extra tries.

Mickey has a Power Gauge with five points, indicating his health. He loses one point each time he is hurt by an enemy or an environmental hazard, but he can find Stars within the levels that replenish his health. Mickey loses a try if he loses all of his health. Extra tries can be found in the levels or earned by accumulating points (40,000 points initially and then every subsequent 50,000 points). Mickey retains his health from stage or stage but loses all of his projectile items.

Every stage ends in a boss battle against each Master of Illusion where Mickey can earn a gem (though the final two levels award a gem halfway through). At the end of each stage, Mickey's score is totaled, including a Technical Bonus (the number of points left on his Power Gauge multiplied by 1,000) and a Secret Bonus (the number of projectile items remaining times 1,000). After clearing all five stages, obtaining all gems will open up the route to the witch's tower. There, the player faces the final boss: a giant and youthful version of Mizrabel (resembling the Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty). There is also an Practice mode available where players play through truncated versions of the first three levels, with no boss fights. However, it is only possible to finish the game and see the ending by playing the Normal or Hard modes.

Items

	Star
	Replenishes one point of Mickey's Power Gauge. Awards 1,000 points if the player is at full health.
	Gem
	Awards 100 points to the player.
	Mouse Ears
	Gives the player an extra try.
	Apple, Marble, and Candle
	Gives Mickey another item that can be thrown at enemies, up to a maximum of 30. Awards 1,000 points to the player if the player already has 30 items.
	Bag of Items
	Gives Mickey 10 items to throw, up to a maximum of 30. Awards 1,000 points to the player if the player already has more than 20 items.

Levels

	The Enchanted Forest
	Toyland
	The Storm
	The Library
	The Castle
	Mizrabel

History

Development

While the day-to-day development of Castle of Illusion was undertaken by Sega of Japan, the project was led by Sega of America and Disney Software in the US. Disney had strict guidelines as to how Mickey Mouse could be treated; for example, he was not allowed to "die", thus Castle of Illusion has "tries" instead of "lives" (a policy which continued when developing later Mickey Mouse games).

Legacy

Castle of Illusion stands as one of the first licensed exclusives for a Sega system, and was promoted heavily to sell consoles before the release of Sonic the Hedgehog. Its subsequent success meant it became the first in a series of Disney licensed games developed exclusively for Sega consoles, being followed by a sequel, World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and two Master System/Game Gear spin-offs, Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse.

The game was bundled with Quackshot later in the Mega Drive's life in The Disney Collection, and also appeared with this game in the Sega Saturn compilation, Sega Ages I Love Mickey Mouse: Fushigi no Oshiro Daibouken/I Love Donald Duck: Guruzia Ou no Hihou.

A remake of the game was released in 2013 developed by Sega Studios Australia called Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (2013). The original game was made available as a pre-order bonus on PlayStation Network in North America only.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse	Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
English (US)	Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse	Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
Japanese	アイラブミッキーマウス ふしぎのお城大冒険	I Love Mickey Mouse: Fushigi no Oshiro Daibouken

Production credits

• Game Designer and Coordinator: Emirin
• Assistant Game Designer: Yoshio.Y
• Assistant Coordinator: Thomas Yuuda
• Artists: Maccochan, La-Rie, Mikarin, Thomas Yuuda
• Programmers: Satman, Kottu, Muimui
• Sound Director: Bola
• Sound Composed by: Kamiya Studio
• Special Thanks to: Momonga Momo, Hyakushiki, Heven Kaneko, Tam, Jackson Yu, Wanta, Milpo, Hata, Shiri・P, XOR, Ryuuchan, Macchan, Jim, Hi Master
• Walt Disney Producer: Stephan L. Butler
• Main Programmer and Producer: Ore
• Produced by: Sega

Source:

In-game credits

Digital manuals

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  Mega Drive Mini US manual

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  Mega Drive Mini EU manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Mega Drive)/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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CL TV advert

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US print advert

SE advert

SE advert (1991)

MX advert (1991)

Print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #112: "March 1991" (1991-02-16)

Print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #113: "April 1991" (1991-03-16)

Print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #114: "May 1991" (1991-04-14)
also published in:

• The Complete Guide to Sega (UK) #1 (1991-05-xx)

Print advert in Sega Force (SE) #1992-01: "1/92" (1992-xx-xx)

IT print advert (1992)

Print advert in Donald Duck (DK) #23: (1993-06-23)

Physical scans

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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Mega Drive)

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