Hi there!

 

Sometime before Capcom and Sega got their video game licenses from Disney, Gremlin did a Mickey Mouse game for home computers:

 

 

Their license was apparently rather short lived, the only other Disney game from Gremlin I can think of is a game about Basil the mouse detective.

 

This particular Mickey Mouse game at hands plays like a prototype license game disaster

 

Mickeys mission is to climb up 4 towers full of ghouls'n'ghosts and barricade every door he finds on his way. Weird enough, the doors are already closed to begin with , so Mickey has to fight enemies with a hammer and a water pistol (full of anti-ghost water) until one of them randomly drops a key.

 

Mickey can then unlock the door and has to play one out of 4 different mini games. They're rather simple. Three of them are single screen dexterity tests; the fourth is a bit like a mini Gauntlet, where you have to find and return three items back to the exit.

 

Once reaching the top of a tower, Mickey just starts over at the bottom of the next. The mini games repeat over and over again, and while they get progressivly harder, they get boring a lot faster.

 

The graphics are okay; A lot worse is the short background music loop, which will drive you nuts after a few minutes

 

At the end there's a little boss battle, after which one is rewarded with some nice fireworks at least:

 

 

Overall it's a game to absolutely avoid

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another Disney license game in the form of "Who framed Roger Rabbit", but first it'll continue with something else.

 

Greetings,

Manuel