The Pico's Inconsistent Mouse Infestation.

I figured I'd start the blog with an article based on what my latest Youtube upload related to the Pico was.

As it turned out, it was related to someone who you should find pretty familiar; Disney's most iconic face, and Disney's representation on the Pico, can be a pretty interesting thing to talk about.

Let's start by linking the video I was referring to;


This Pico game is "Tokyo Disneyland Toon Town Mickey no Boku wa Untenshu", ROM dumped recently by Team-Europe. This was a Japan-only Pico release... and just one of many of these, at that.

Posting whatever else I upped in relation would possibly flood the blog post, so I'll just say to run a search on Youtube for titles such as "Tokyo DisneySea Mickey to Asobou", "Mickey to Ooki na Furudokei", "Mickey no Boku wa Meitantei", and of course besides the Mouse, Donald Duck, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, The Lion King, and 101 Dalmations (I missing anyone?) all have games of their own. Yes, that's a lot of Disney. There's more Disney than there is pretty much any other single franchise on the Pico - even more than anything Sega 1st-party, such as Sonic the Hedgehog. Many of the Disney games actually were made by Sega themselves, Sega Toys, or Kodansha.

Disney had such a strong association with the Pico that in Japan, the game "Mickey no Yukai na Bouken" was the first game published on the console. That game probably deserves a bit of an article of it's own, though. It's kinda on the quirky side...
Ah, yes, let me at least put up the TV ad for it that was uploaded on Youtube. That one's a goodie.

(Thanks to dosanko501 for this video)

Strangely, instead of localizing any of the Japanese game library, most non-Asian countries only got Novotrade's games, originally made for the American Pico audience. "Mickey's Blast Into the Past" is the notable Mickey-starring game there.

(Thanks to segaboyable for this one)
Geez, every game looks dramatically different, huh?


In spite of the large amount of other Japanese Disney games and how well they'd theoretically have sold, most of them remained unheard of to the foreign audience until I initially started researching the titles or until Team-Europe dumped the ROMs. I'll considering posting an article about possible explanations as to why this was as more information comes around.

But before that, we'll probably have more articles about Disney games. Tsh!