Mickey Mouse is participating a lot in gaming world since the beginning of the journey. Everyone knows about Mickey who knows about Disney and who knows about animation is familiar with the name Disney. He had a long journey of 83 years. Thanks to Mr. Walt Disney for over 300 Disney characters over the last 88 years. It was 1923 when Walt Disney started his movie studio in Los Angeles. In 1928 Mickey came to light and over the next few years public was introduced to a number of Mickey’s “family”. His friend Goofy and Donald Duck, dog Pluto, his girl friend Minnie, Donald’s girlfriend Daisy, Clarabelle Cow and the gruff Peg-Leg Pete all are familiar faces for Disney lovers. They have also grand roles in the games based on Mickey.
Disney Ludo game is popular still now. Even you can play this game in online in many gaming websites. But it started with its most popular character Mickey with the Mickey Mouse Coming Home Game. The game was published in the year 1930 at the very beginning of Mickey Mouse. Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow participated there. The same game came with the name Mickey Mouse Ludo in England. In 1935, nineteen Mickey Mouse games and jigsaw puzzles were introduced in England.
Next game with Mickey mouse is an updated version of an old battery operated quiz game. This game was introduced in 1930. Here Mickey is dressed in his fancy outfit from the Disney landmark motion picture Fantasia. The game was designed as an educational game to teach younger children that how to recognize, compare, and match images.
Playing cards with Disney cartoon characters became popular in the late 1940s. It became popular in North America with the name Canasta. After the Second World War, Canasta spread rapidly through South America and to the United States and then to Britain. In the late 1940s and early 1950s it became so popular in all these places more than Bridge. The craze is no more but Canasta is still a popular game. The game Canasta is derived from the Rummy family of card games. The game was published in 1947. This package included games of Bambi, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Pinocchio, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, three Little Pigs latter. Actually the Disney version of Canasta is a modification of the standard game.
Another type of Mickey Mouse themed game is a board game. The game is based upon the television show The Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers. This show was telecasted on the ABC Network from 1955 through 1959. Interesting is that this game requires not just typical board game play, but also requires the singing of the “Mouse Club Song”!
The last one is Epic Mickey, an updated video game with a new look of Mickey. It has 2D cinemas and used Emergent Game Technologies’ Gamebryo Engine. It is the re-brand the Mickey Mouse with devious and tricky image of Mickey rather than typical funny, cheerful one. The game was released on November 25, 2010 in Europe and on November 30 in North America. By playing “Epic Mickey,” you will get a historical lesson about Mickey house and Disney world. In this video game, a former hero Oswald the Lucky Rabbit also came into light.