Mickey Mousecapade
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 North American box cover of Mickey Mousecapade for the NES |
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| Developer(s) | Hudson Soft |
| Publisher(s) | Hudson Soft (Japan) Capcom (North America) |
| Platform(s) | NES |
| Release date | March 6, 1987 (Japan) 1988 (North America) |
| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Mickey Mousecapade (Mickey Mouse in Japan) is an NES game where the character of Mickey Mouse travel through the Fun House, the Ocean, the Forest, the Pirate Ship, and the Castle in an effort to save a young girl who happens to be Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Minnie Mouse follows Mickey around, and occasionally gets kidnapped. Various villains from Disney cartoons make an appearance as bosses. It was developed and published by Hudson Soft in Japan and published by Capcom in the United States.
The game was Capcom's first venture into what became a successful trademark of making Nintendo games based on popular Disney characters. This is the only Capcom/Disney title that was not developed by Capcom and the game contains several sprites lifted from other Hudson Soft games.
Mickey Mousecapade is also noteworthy for its choice to equip Mickey and Minnie with throwing stars in its US release.
This game is sometimes incorrectly identified as Mickey Mousecapades. The title screen of the US version refers to the game by its Japanese title, which is simply Mickey Mouse. According to the US instruction manual, the plot is that Mickey and Minnie are trying to rescue a "mystery friend", who turns out to be Alice from Alice in Wonderland. In the Japanese version, Alice is prominently featured on the box art.
While the gameplay, soundtrack and premise to rescue Alice is the same, there exist a considerable amount of differences between Capcom's US release and Hudson's original game for the Famicom, especially when it comes to the use of Disney characters. Both versions make use of Disney villains for bosses but not one of them is present in both versions . For example, the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland is the first boss in the Japanese version, but in the US version he was substituted by The Witch from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Many Disney characters who appear as regular foes in the Japanese version were also replaced in the US version by other Disney baddies. It must be noted that the Japanese version was based, first and foremost, on the movie Alice in Wonderland and most references about Disney on this version derived from this same movie. The US localization used a more varied formula, with scoundrels coming from The Jungle Book, Country Bear Jamboree, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Some of the items also underwent to changes. In the Japanese version, Mickey could refill his life bar by picking up a head of Donald Duck but this item was replaced in the US conversion by a simple diamond.
