History YMMV / MickeyMania

* SoOkayItsAverage: In comparison to other Disney games of its time, it's neither as good as the ''[[VideoGame/CastleOfIllusion Illusion]]'' [[VideoGame/WorldOfIllusion games]], nor as bad as ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''. The Sega Genesis version is [[GeniusProgramming notable]] for pulling off effects that would otherwise only be possible on the SNES, but the game is otherwise best known for being [[NintendoHard hard]].

* PolishedPort: The CD versions of the game feature high quality CD music by composer Michael Giacchino, even more Mickey Mouse voice clips provided by then-current Mickey voice actor Wayne Allwine, and extended versions of levels like the Mad Doctor stage. However the PS1 version also features higher quality graphics compared to the Sega CD version, with all the sprites having been redrawn, and a new chase sequence added to the end of the Mickey and the Beanstalk stage featuring Willie the Giant. The only problems some might have with the PS1 port was it was made even harder than the other versions, and both the original retail release and the PSN release suffer from NoExportForYou, having only been released in PAL regions.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A minor example. It's a great game and a good 65th anniversary tribute to Mickey, but one wonders why there was no level devoted to the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" from Disney/{{Fantasia}}. That's one of Mickey's most iconic moments.
** Perhaps because that was a segment from a Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon compilation film and not a proper standalone Mickey Mouse short.
*** But "Mickey and the Beanstalk" also fits that description and is a level here.
*** That and there was already a game featuring the Sorcerer's Apprentice aka the Fantasia Genesis game.

** The level that takes the cake, however, is the segment of ''the Prince and the Pauper'' immediately preceding the tower. Tricky moving platform rides, pools of lava with fireballs that fly at you in completely random directions, a pit with walls that will crush you if you don't descend fast enough, a hallway full of spear traps that can skewer your entire health meter if you don't run through it at just the right time, and of course, the aforementioned DemonicSpider Weasels the whole way through, with limited marbles meaning you have to be very choosy with which ones you take out.

* ThatOneLevel: ''The Mad Doctor'', particularly the elevator ride shortly before the boss, as dodging or surviving the onslaught of skeleton bones in such a small space is damn near a LuckBasedMission. The gurney ride will likely take more than a few tries as well until you're comfortable with jumping over the pits.

* PolishedPort: The CD versions of the game feature high quality CD music by composer Michael Giacchino, even more Mickey Mouse voice clips provided by then-current Mickey voice actor Wayne Allwine, and extended versions of levels like the Mad Doctor stage. However the PS1 version also features higher quality graphics compared to the Sega CD version, with all the sprites having been redrawn, and a new chase sequence added to the end of the Mickey and the Beanstalk stage featuring Willie the Giant.

** Perhaps because that was a segment from a [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Canon]] compilation film and not a proper standalone Mickey Mouse short.

** Right before the boss fight against the Mad Doctor begins, he removes a black cloak that makes him resemble the Phantom Blot, Mickey's lesser-known archnemesis from the ComicBookMickeyMouseComicUniverse. The VideoGame/EpicMickey game would later feature the Mad Doctor and a revamped version of the Phantom Blot called the Shadow Blot as the main antagonists.

* HilariousInHindsight: A video game featuring a FunnyAnimal star of a LongRunner franchise going through places he's been to before and allying with his past self or selves. [[VideoGame/SonicGenerations Remind you of anything?]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A minor example. It's a great game and a good 65th anniversary tribute to Mickey, but one wonders why there was no level devoted to the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" from {{Fantasia}}. That's one of Mickey's most iconic moments.

** Perhaps because that was a segment from a [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Canon]] compilation film and not a proper standalone Mickey Mouse short.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A minor example. It's a great game and a good 65th anniversary tribute to Mickey, but one wonders why there was no level devoted to the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" from {{Fantasia}}. That's one of Mickey's most iconic moments.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A minor example. It's a great game and a good 65th anniversary tribute to Mickey, but one wonders why there was no level devoted to the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" from {{Fantasia}}. That's one of Mickey's iconic moments.

* {{Narm}}: In the Playstation version of the game, Mickey will for some reason ''always'' enter an animation that has him checking his watch when he finds Pluto at the end of ''the Mad Doctor'' stage, making him seem completely uninterested in having found his pet.

* BreatherLevel: ''Moose Hunters'' is signifigantly easier than ''the Mad Doctor'' or ''Lonesome Ghosts''.

* MostAnnoyingSound: "Uh-oh!"

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Just like his original short, the Mad Doctor is remembered quite fondly in particular. Helped out by the fact that the cartoon and character is by far and large the most obscure cartoon in the game.

* DemonicSpiders: The Weasels in ''the Prince and the Pauper'', most definitely. They take several hits, are difficult to beat if you run out of marbles, and can hit you from far away. [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit Too bad you can't just make them laugh themselves to death.]]

* GeniusProgramming: The Sega Genesis version of the game features Mode 7-style perspective effects in a number of the levels... produced entirely in software, as unlike the SNES, that system has no hardware support for such effects.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Just like his original short, the Mad Doctor is remembered quite fondly in particular. Helped out by the fact that the cartoon and character is by far and large the most obscure cartoon in the game.