#mickey's mousecapade

[leam1983]

On Evolving Tastes

1989: "I know of no other games than Super Mario Bros. 1 through 3, Tetris, Doctor Mario and Mickey's Mousecapade. This will last for a few years, until my aunt will introduce me to bootleg 300-in-one cartridges. Ironically, I'll only ever touch Yie Ar Kung Fu, Macross, Mappy, Dig Dug and City Connection."

1990: "Dad's discovered that a store near his office sells Tengen cartridges for a fraction of officially-licenced titles! He gets me Gauntlet on the super cheap, thinking I'll play it once and forget about it, but Gauntlet becomes the one game I play the most often."

1996: "Man, Earthworm Jim and Myst are going to dominate this summer vacation! I might even work in some time for a few Mortal Kombat tourneys!"

1999: "I got over my giant snob self and gave Quake and Half-Life a shot. Something's shifted, for sure. I'm not sure, but I might actually like a few shooters..."

2001: "I am a grown-ass man and I cannot stop playing The Sims. Please send help, I'm nurturing an unhealthy God complex."

2002: "I'm really mad at myself for not finding out about Vampire - The Masquerade: Redemption until two years after its release."

2004: "Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines has consumed me."

2005: "Study? Yeah, sure, I do - but Unreal Tournament 2004 is where it's at - whenever Black & White 2 doesn't consume for weeks on end."

2006: "My Dad introduced me to SimCity 3000 several years too late, which is introducing me to the wacky world of PC retrogaming. I now use his beige croaker of a clerical machine to work on Isometric metropolises while snapping my fingers to some real-ass Jazz bops."

2007: "I resisted for two years, but finally caved in to Guitar Hero. It's also the best excuse I had to get a Slim PS2."

2008: "I used my paycheck from my first Real, Adult Man Job at the campus to get myself an XBOX 360 and Fable II! I'll spend years playing it while ignoring the game's obvious flaws!"

2009: "I kinda hate myself for it, but I splurged on a PS3 after a friend showed me Super Stardust HD."

2010: "Fuck you, getting myself a Wii for the express purpose of playing the Metroid Prime Trilogy. Also, ow, this exact fucking thing will also send me off to my first serious GP appointment as an adult, for a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome diagnosis. I'll spend two years wearing a wrist brace and playing through all three games in short bursts. The tendon responsible for retracting my right thumb is on permanent fire and every gameplay session puts me through a physical gauntlet, but every new gameplay component the series introduces makes me feel like a kid again."

2011: "Skyrim. Just - Skyrim. I'll perpetrate my first and only acts of professional truancy to devote entire weeks to my quest log. It helps that this winter was particularly Siberian, so I had plenty of excuses to stay home and slay dragons."

2014: "I power through Destiny on the PS3 and spend about four months being extremely hooked onto the game's universe and lore. I'll design character after character even after finishing the main quest four times, because I finally discovered what Halo stans have been enjoying for years - which is an approachable and still complex Fantasy/Sci-Fi shooter that hasn't yet lost its narrative compass...

Luckily, I also find out about Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and realize I have a thing for Uruk-Hai labelled as "The Friendly". I'll spend a year at the pace of an hour or two per day trying to populate my two camps with nothing but Friendlies."

2015: "As is usually the case, I come into this a few years too late and discover the joy that is Saints Row: The Third. GTA never grabbed me, while Volition's total lack of self-seriousness delights me. I buy Saints Row IV immediately after finishing my first run-through, and find that Volition's writing team is the only thing that keeps me going. If it weren't for JB Blanc's mouth-watering portrayal of Emperor Zinyak, I'd be playing a fun, if average third-person shooter."

2016: "Bigger job titles means more disposable income, which means my first custom-built tower PC after years of prebuilts - and a PS4! Destiny 2 and GTA 5 are big ones on there, but the first one disappoints me with how it gatekeeps the lore behind high-skill activities that are unfriendly for players with navigational or reflex-related issues (i.e. moi) and the second turns absolutely turgid at any moment that doesn't feature Trevor Philips.

Seriously, who do I have to call at Rockstar to let them know I don't give a rat's ass about Michael DeSanta's midlife hoodlum crisis?!"

2017: "Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, baby! Copy and paste my fixation from 2014, except now Friendlies are voiced by JB Blanc. Thank fuck for apartments, 'cause I wouldn't have wanted my folks to see me aggressively blush any time a Friendly crossed swords with me, claiming to want to be my pal."

2020: "Welp, guess it's nothing except slaying demons and building an island commune on my brand-new Nintendo Switch... Oh, and wouldn't you know it, Cyberpunk 2077 just came out, and in such a state that I won't seriously touch it until September 2022..."

2021: "What's happening to me? Why am I so psyched about Power Washer Simulator? Why did I spend nearly as much time in Mechanic Simulator 2021 as I did in Skyrim? Why do I persist in being hyped for House Flipper despite reports of horribly unoptimized code?"

2022: "I might as well embrace it: I have no hair on top and grow a mo' in an afternoon, I can only maintain a very mild case of fitness and there's fifteen to twenty pounds I just can't get rid of no matter how hard I try. I am a Dad, now. I have the Dad Bod - the real one, not the one perpetuated by misaligned kiddies who'd call British Pop Music starlets Daddy - and I am now oddly hyped for Construction Simulator. I've finished Cyberpunk four times, played through Elden Ring twice, and I'm at the point where I'd honestly be excited by a game that finds some way to simplify the act of grading papers.

I dream of a twist on Papers, Please where one plays as a lecturer and where the goal of the game is to grade papers while avoiding interpersonal or professional scandals, as well as meeting faculty quotas..."

[oldgamemags]

Video Games & Computer Entertainment #5, June 1989 - Review of 'Mickey Mousecapade'.

[fandomlife-confessions]

[skuttie]

Mickey Mouse and his mousecapades are OVER. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWTWtIoR00E

[tuliptheoshawott]

[geekcavepodcast]

Geek Cave Podcast 155.2 | GAMING | FF XVI, Mickey Mousecapade, Destroy All Humans

This month's strangeness continues, as Darrin continues reviewing Final Fantasy XVI while also giving us a long, lingering look at an NES Mickey Mouse game, Justin laments the controls of Destroy All Humans, and Chad takes a peek at Viewfinder. 

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[stuckinthehotelcalifornia]

This chemistry video voiceover lady really said Acids the exact same way Arin said I’ve never seen such Assetry in my life 

[chibifox2002]

Currently rewatching the game grumps Mickey Mousecapade episode for the 20,000th time and trying not to laugh

[crayonurchin]

I've started repeating the mean intrusive thoughts I get in an Arin Hanson 'silly voice'

Brain: You're so stupid nobody likes you Arin Hanson: You're SOOOOOOOO STOOOOPID- burp- NooOoOOobody likes yeeeeeeew

Brain: Why can't you just do your tasks? Arin Hanson: -screaming with mic clipping- WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DO YOU TAAAAAAAAKS???

Brain: You're fat Arin Hanson: -the entirety of the Mickey Mousecapade episode- First of all

[transgender-battlekukku]

Local witch helps her goons beat a hard level of Mickey Mousecapade

[m0n0-t0n3]

the mickey mousecapade episode is just art

[lewvithur]

opinions on the game grumps aside i still love the mickey mousecapade video

[game-boy-pocket]

Today I beat Mickey Mousecapade. Another game covered in Nintendo Power #003.

I was mildly obsessed with Mickey Mouse as a kid, I loved him and all his friends, and I thought Mickey and Minnie were a really cute duo that I didn't get to see together in the cartoons often enough, I was a lot more drawn to Mickey than Bugs Bunny. I kind of did a complete 180 on that when I grew up though, I much prefer Looney Tunes now and it's hard to even look at Mickey and not think about Disney's nasty corporate side. But there's still some fondness for him deep down. But anyway.. as a kid I always wanted to play the games based on their box art, but I didn't really rent video games in the NES era.

Nintendo Power's coverage of the game was pretty worthless. They stopped just short of the levels that actually would need some hints, as it was a lost woods style maze with an invisible door you need to shoot a few times to reveal. The game was a mid level platformer/shooter. Mickey and Minnie gain the ability to shoot stars in the first level for some reason. It's deceptively tough and requires you to practice caution, as hazards can suprise you pretty quick. There's no continues here. I saved between levels, but a skilled player could probably pull this off, it's a very short game with only 5 levels, and level 2 and 4 being incredibly short.

The game has you control Micky, but Minnie follows behind and copies your moves. Kind of like Tails in Sonic, except without the path finding part where Tails will move on his own to go back behind Sonic. Minnie can't take Damage, which is nice, I actually exploited the AI to take out the level 4 boss with her and avoiding damage... but if she falls in a pit, you both die... and it's a cool concept but it can be very distracting and throw you off.

The game is apparently set in Wonder Land, as you can see from Mickey finding Alice I guess? But only the final area has any familiar enemies from that movie, the Card soldiers, and the Walrus as a miniboss... the final boss is actually Maleficent.

You can tell this is a Hudson game, it's got a lot in common with the look and sound of the Adventure Island games, the hud is pretty similar too but it doesn't deplete over time. Do not recommend to the casual player but could be fun for people that want a short and tough NES game to try and run through. I didn't hate it but I'm unlikely to replay it. Magical Quest is still my Mickey Mouse game of choice but i've not played much of the others.

[joeyvintage]

Mickey Mousecapade - Wikipedia

[geekcavepodcast]

Geek Cave Plays | Mickey Mousecapade (NES)

This one is a bit of a mixed bag as we continue our Year of the NES.

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