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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse

Minnie Mouse has been kidnapped by the evil witch Mizrabel, and it's up to Mickey Mouse to venture through the mysterious worlds of the Castle of Illusion to rescue her in this 2D platformer (and collaboration…

55 20 November 1990

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a platform developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., released 20 November 1990 on Sega Saturn and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

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What Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a platform game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1990. It is available on Sega Saturn and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a 1990 platform game developed and published by Sega and released for the Sega Genesis. An 8-bit version of the game was later released for the Master System and Game Gear. The game follows Mickey Mouse on a quest to save Minnie Mouse from the evil witch Mizrabel. It is the first game in Sega's Illusion video game series starring Mickey.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Disney series

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is the 24th of 516 entries we hold in the Disney series. The next entry was Disney's DuckTales: The Quest for Gold in 1990. Its critic score of 55 is 11 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Kingdom Hearts III at 90.

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How it was received

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1990 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points below the year average. Players rate it 63, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse launched on 20 November 1990, within three weeks of Super Mario World, F-Zero, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and Review: Jashin Fukkatsu. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Super Mario World, F-Zero, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Review: Jashin Fukkatsu.

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Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse was released on 20 November 1990 for Sega Saturn and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.

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