Disney Games

**Disney Games** is the video game counterpart of Disney, owned by The Walt Disney Company, which has existed since 1982. From 1982 until September 14, 1988, Disney Games was a small business gaming company. Disney Games grew since September 15, 1988, when Disney Interactive Studios was founded, the 1st major gaming company from Disney Games. Disney Games grew even larger since 1995, when their 2nd major gaming company was founded, Disney Interactive. Then, Disney Games would be mainly those 2 big gaming companies until May 10, 2016, when Disney Interactive Studios was closed by The Walt Disney Company, leaving Disney Interactive as Disney Games' only big gaming company since then.

Phantomstrider finds Disney Games as one of his favorite gaming companies, as compared to many other gaming companies, he does feel there’s been very reasonable quality control on their games, and he rarely ran into any outright abysmal games (only 6 notable ones: Lion King (Super NES and Genesis), Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure, Mickey Mousecapade, and Fantasia (Genesis)). Very scarcely did it feel like they were simply selling parents a game box with a picture of a Disney character. Instead, each game often had distinct gameplay mechanics and personality, and given these games go back over 30 years, he’d say that’s a pretty decent track record. Yes, even though he admits that although most Kingdom Hearts games have the complicated storyline, bland antagonists, and unnecessary games between 2 and 3, he does admit that everything else in all Kingdom Hearts games are pretty good, and that all KH games were still decent (with 2 being his most favorite game, more explained in His Favorite Disney Game below). Strider also enjoyed The Black Cauldron and Lion Kong 1 1/2 games, as they are based on some of his Disney guilty pleasures. Strider is shocked but pleased to see that almost all Disney games are reasonable quality. Sometimes, they are based off Disney shows/movies he usually despises/dislikes (excluding sequels of Disney shows/movies he likes), like Cars 2: the Game, Jonas: the Game, Alice in Wonderland 2010 video game (2 if counting mobile games), 2 Little Mermaid II games, Planes: the Game, G-Force: the Game, 5 (7 if counting mobile games) Hannah Montana games (including one based on their movie), and 2 Chicken Little games (and Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War based on POTC 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales if mobile games are counted). When Strider did Worst/Best Disney Games, he went into these above mentioned games with his teeth clenched expecting the worst. Surely any Disney game that is solely based on a bad show/movie would be in terrible taste, expecting them to be much worse than Fantasia on the Genesis. Though actually, he found himself relieved of what could’ve been much, much worse Disney games. After playing those, he found those Disney games to be decent. Strider also found those Disney games pretty interesting because they right away show the movies/shows they are based on and leaving Strider clenching for the most un-tasteful games in Disney history. But the tension is released after playing those Disney games himself and actually finding those pleasant enough experiences. Strider was surprised that the worst Disney games were based on their more beloved franchises and weren’t put much care or thought into them, while the Disney games that were based on their more hated shows/movies were actually decent and were put care and thought into them. That’s probably why Strider considers Disney Games one of his favorite gaming companies, cause even Disney can turn some of their worst movies/shows into decent video games that better represent those respective movies/shows. With that said, Strider is glad Disney Games doesn’t do this often, or else he probably would have come across worse Disney games than Fantasia on the Genesis.

## His Favorite Disney Game

Phantomstrider's favorite Disney game is Kingdom Hearts II. He loves this game as the best of Kingdom Hearts for its gameplay, the concept as a Disney and Square Enix crossover, the characters, particulary the main character Sora, and he also loves the music and heartwarming moments. He also likes the big improvements made to what he didn’t like in the 1st game, and being above all the other Disney games in terms of its quality, gameplay, story, characters, music and writing, despite its graphics being dated compared to other later best Disney games. Since it was only for the PlayStation 2, Strider said to Sony "Congratulations, Sony! You’ve done it! You made the Best Disney Game! All of us here are so proud of you!"

## His Least Favorite Disney Game

Phantomstrider's least favorite Disney game is Fantasia (Genesis). He grew up with this game and he couldn’t get past the 2nd level. He despises this game for being an ugly, dull, soulless cash grab that is not faithful to the wonderful Disney movie it was based on. Strider's main issues were unresponsive clunky controls, broken plat-former puzzles, and the story being so hacked that it barely even matters. All of these made this game a head smashingly frustrating experience to play. Strider was more than shocked to learn that this game was only available for Sega Genesis, meaning **Sega** of all companies produced this awful Disney game, especially since Sega is known for making Sega Genesis hits like the Sonic games, and much better Disney games like Aladdin and QuackShot. At least the Lion King video game had other platforms, so Strider enjoyed other versions better and could skip the Genesis and SNES versions. But not this game. Strider says this is the worst Disney game for making 2 weekends of his childhood bad memories, and saying there are much better Disney games based on Fantasia. Strider says "If you really are the ultimate Fantasia master fan…well, even then, I’d say go play Fantasia: Music Evolved instead."

## Lists Strider Includes Disney Games

* He made Worst/Best Disney Games, which discusses his favorite and least favorite video games made by the company.
* *Toy Story 2: The Game* was the Best in Worst/Best Animation Games.