Franchise file / The Walt Disney Company
Disney
A licence, not a single line
Games based on Disney films, characters and parks, starting with a Mickey Mouse handheld in 1981. Not one series, but decades of tie-ins, party games and crossovers from many studios.
- 1981
- First game
- The Walt Disney Company
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
The console licences. Disney handed its cast to established console names. Capcom's Adventures in the Magic Kingdom and Sega's Lucky Dime Caper show how that era looked.
Start with Adventures in the Magic KingdomYour next late night
The essentials
A legacy worth revisiting
Decades of licensed magic.
Disney has rarely made one kind of game. Its name has covered Capcom's NES platformers, film tie-ins, karaoke, sports games and Avalanche's toys-to-life Disney Infinity. What links them is the cast, not the genre, so quality swings as widely as the studios involved.
- 1990 to 1996
- The console licences
- 2000 to 2005
- Film tie-ins
- 2011 to 2016
- Crossovers
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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