One of the most poorly-programmed games I’ve ever seen. I think I remember the instruction manual actually saying something like, “if something weird or unexpected happens, it’s because anything can happen in a dream!” Good save, guys.

Fantasia looks incredible, but don't be fooled. The controls are a sloppy mess and the game is inordinately hard, especially for a kids' title. Too bad, really - Fantasia should have had a better game.

The Dark Souls of Mickey games

I think this is probably the first time I've seen anything past level 2. lol A funny story... back in the day I used to have Castle of Illusion, albeit via a pirated cart (these were [and still are] super common over here in Argentina) that for whatever reason had a label for Fantasia instead. The amusing part comes in when sometime after I got that, I see that my cousin, who at the time lived a few blocks away from my house, had an also pirated copy of Fantasia... with a Castle of Illusion label. It was odd, although I believe we had purchased said games from the same store, so it kinda makes sense.

Game was impossible to beat.

This game was insanely hard. Even as a little 6 year old gamer who could get all chaos emeralds in all Sonic games and generally beat any game put in front of me, this one I struggled with the most. Just take a look at the last level for example. You can't even tell what is a safe platform to jump on most of the time.

i never thought id remember this game, buried deep in my mind as lost game , seeing it now after 20 years is so weird , wow, thanks for posting.

That last level in hell is just unbelievably impressive. This game is just awful, but the art design for that last level is just mind bending.

0:11 this part scared me as a child

Came back to this after the torture it put me through as a kid, came here to see how far I got.....all the way to the last screen before game over lol

I can't explain, but when i was a kid, this game FRIGHTENED ME. And it wasn't even the difficulty...

This Game has a really dark vibe. I remember playing this Game with the jaw tight and My throath completely closed . Mickey's spirit, Hell's Trip, Some kinda Halloween stage, black pteranodons, weird shit.

This game is the literal definition of "we have Mickey Mania at home" Also the underwater music at 03:00 is straight out of Stimpy's Invention. In terms of both style and crappiness.

Oh my God.This is my true nostalgia.❤️

20 years....20 years and I never knew you could jump on enemies

All i can remember about this game is that i liked the soundtrack but it was difficult af. never got past the underground map with the big crystals.

Believe it or not, this was one of my first video games. I'm genuinely surprised it didn't put me off completely, but at the same time I wish it had succeeded. It wouldn't be until Kingdom Hearts 3DS that we'd see Fantasia represented correctly in video game form.

This game seems so joyless

este juego es re turbio, a mi me daba miedo jaja

Holy shit!!! I never made it past the last faery!!! I didn't knew I had to kill all creatures!!! I was so close to finish this game!! OMG!! I remember everything so vividly, even after 25+ years! Thanks bro!

I was 6 when i played this game and i never beat the game...bringing back good memories though! Thanks for the upload man 👍

There was another game like this, but it was black and white and it had the old school mickey. It was cruelly hard and mickey shot Bubble like bullets with his wand I believe. It was also for the genesis.

This still Magic. Remember sweet DREAMS on TV with Mickey i was a baby. Lol

The game still looks incredible! For a 91' release it looks out of this world. It's to bad the music is done poorly as well as the gameplay. Western developers took a little while to hit their stride in the 16-bit era.

bring back memories :)

This game should be on the top list for Mr Rolfe to review...

Because of this game, Sega lost the chance of making a game outta Disney's Aladdin ... Virgin's game still remained a sega exclusive thought

This game ost make me chills

Logo: We see the Sega logo in its futuristic font (which is in blue and contains many white stripes around it) on a black background. On most games, the color changes in shades of blue. Variants: This logo has a lot of variations, but below are some variants for the regular logo: In its early days since until 1991, the registered trademark symbol "®" symbol was used. Starting around late 1990, the "TM" symbol replaces the registered trademark "®" symbol. Sometimes, the logo lacks the trademark symbol. On some Game Gear titles, the logo is plain blue and takes place on the blue background. Starting in 2017 to honor Sega Forever, this logo returned as a secondary logo for its placeholder, with the on-screen logo turning into the 1988 logo with the Sega jingle. There is a Sega Master System variant. The logo's individual letters slide in from from the darkness. After, the text "MASTER SYSTEM" and a copyright stamp appears. FX/SFX: Just the changing color. Sometimes, the logo fades in and/or fades out. Music/Sounds: None or the opening theme of the game. Music/Sounds Variants: On games produced by Infogrames (except for The Smurfs 2), we hear a vocoder yell "SEEEEGAAAAA!". The Sega Master System variant has a rising square wave chord when the logo's letters slide in and the 8-bit Sega jingle when the text and the copyright stamp appear. Availability: Common. Seen on most games for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Also appears on some games for the Sega Game Gear (and the Sega 32X attachment for the Genesis/Mega Drive). Some of the only games not to use this logo were most Sega Master System games and every Electronic Arts game for Sega Genesis (including EA Sports games as well). But one EA Genesis game that contains the logo is Shaq Fu, while Baku Baku Animals, Bonkers Wax Up!, Daffy Duck in Hollywood, Double Dragon, Lemmings, Sonic Blast, Streets of Rage, Ultimate Soccer and Virtual Fighter Animation were the only Sega Master System games that contain the logo. The logo can be also seen on EA Game Gear games. It is generally left intact in most re-releases of Sega games of the time period like on Wii Virtual Console re-releases of Genesis games.

Can't wait for Mr Rolfe to review it.

Brings me back to 2013..... Those were some good old days!

Wow..takes me back to those years I played over and over to win this game....my eldest sis was so good at it I see her as the only one possible to win this incredibly difficult game.

After seeing this i have to say chernabog one of the most iconic Disney villains was barley in his own level

James Rolfe should totally make an AVGN review of this!

After I watched this video, I realised as a kid, even though I tried and played really hard, I never passed it more than 10-20% of the whole game... The devs were seriously cruel xD But that music in the intro gave me SO MUCH NOSTALGIA.

26:57 what tease all we got was Chernabog's hand ......I wanted to see his huge face looming in the background woulda def finished the game a little stronger.

Its incredible the way old games looks so hard and long, i never pass the 3rd level and remeber play a lot of hours.

So apparently many years ago Roy E. Disney actually made a promise to his Uncle Walt Disney that no licensed merchandise would ever come out the 1940 Fantasia film. When Roy found about about this game’s release he actually sent complaints to Sega claiming that they broke Walt’s wishes. The game was shortly recalled after only 5,000 copies were sold, with the remaining to be destroyed. Yet finding copies of this game for a dirt cheap price is still very easy.

I can find a lot of information on GEMS (Genesis Editor for Music and Sound Effects), but little of the release date on it besides a nebulous "1991". I have to assume it was made available after this game started development, and at a point where rewriting the music was a logistical impossibility. Asssuming the info presented on the game's Wikipedia page is legit, we at least know who to blame (Sega) for wanting to adapt an orchestral-centric film on the Mega Drive and the YM2612. It goes without saying that the soundchip's strengths lay elsewhere. It's kind of a pity that over the years there's been little interest of a Fantasia ROM hack to address the wonky moving platform code, sporadic enemy spawning, accidentally bugged-out music on losing all lives, clunky musical loops, and a general musical rewrite. It's understandable, mind - who'd want to go through all that effort for what's still a fairly middling 20 minute experience at the end of the day? It's just a pity the original devs didn't have enough time originally, and never really got the chance for a do-over either. Almost makes me wonder where the staff all went from here.

The box cover art looked more awesome then the gameplay.

I remember playing when i was a child. the game was hard because i had limited ammo, and had no idea that you had to press jump twice to jump on bad guys, like in Cashle of Illusion. the jump animation was the fucking same

hi, was this recorded from a Genesis or an emulator?

I remember playing this as a kid.....good lords this was brutal and I've never beaten it.....I wasn't even sure I had all the faffing musical notes for crap's sake!!!! And after seeing the ending for this, it was like 'Well, that was a waste of time! Not getting that back anytime soon!!'

Avgn needs to review this.

4:07 i didn't know you could walk there.

I think I made it to the second level...like once. This game was Ridiculously hard for me as a kid

Lets see how long AVGN would last playing this game

Got this game around the late 90’s and loved it to death.

Why so many people hate this game,as a kid i always love playing this game,the graphic seems good to me,i never beat this game as a child but i go to the final level,and its fun to play,especially the secret and hidden dungeon

I thought I never made it past level one, but I remember almost every level from this video, except last two. This game as creepy as I remember. I don’t know maybe it’s because I never saw Fantasia.

Amazing Gameplay, Buetiful music, oh my god, top 2 Genesis game.

Am I missing something? I've got this cartidge as part of a megadrive bundle... but in my version jumping on things doesn't kill them, it hurts my character instead... making it EVEN harder???

Hola gente,alguien sabe como se llama la canción dd la intro

I had read that it was released in an unfinished state and heck, it sure looks like it, it seems like practically every problem it has comes from lack of polish. And there's no way in heck that the music was completed, it feels way too rough o_O

Christmas as a kid memories! 🥰💕

LMFAO THE RITE OF SPRING ARRANGEMENT

I think it’s a game to play if you’re high or drunk

You gotta be kidding me. For the Chernabog stage they don’t use the Night on Bald Mountain theme, but instead uses some stock horror music?

This game means PTSD for me

This is the definition of pain, i hate this game to pieces, and would'nt be playing It again If not tô honor my grandma Memories by playing the games she had when alive

Me acuerdo que odiaba este juego, era dificil y poco estimulante. O al menos en lo personal a mi me interesaba sobre todo los niveles del infierno.

I like the music. It is fantastic

I remember saving shoots for late game. That was pain in the ass.

Fun fact about this game's horrendous remixes of the movie's soundtrack: When reversing the audio and then converting it to a midi, the download link will redirect you to a video titled *GHOSTTOWNWALK_0000.avi* to anyone who understands the reference - don't worry, that video is fake.

I honestly think Earthworm Jim had the better cover of Night on Bald Mountain for the Genesis....

I remember this film you really love this game

Fun fact: an old Infogrames developer revealed a few years ago that Fantasia on Genesis was released prematurely and that's why the controls are so janky and why Mickey has such an awkward jump.

It's like sorcerer's apprentice!

So, they had Night on Bald Mountain but skipped Ave Maria?

wooo "le joueur du grenier"

20:20 Dios, Earthworm Jim Genesis hizo una mejor conversión de "Night on Bald Mountain" LPM

Ironically this game is a Fantasia by itself.

I didn’t know that Infogrames was behind in this game, it looks bad honestly

Funny how a game based on Mickey recovering music sorely lacks in its misused GEMS music.

There are some films & tv shows out there that should not be made into a video game & this is one of them !

Hardest game in my life

I read reviews and it got mostly negative. But what do you guys think who played it?

Nostalgic

Graphics are amazing good for today's standards

I remember beating this game on genesis but definitely not an easy game .

I rented this game and played a lot in early 90's !!! Good old times !

It was an interesting concept at the very least. Too bad they didn't really make it work. Also, the plant level has the Pastoral Symphony and the Greece level has the Nutcracker suite? For shame. But I must give props for the Night on Bald Mountain level. The only thing that would have made it better is if it had a final battle against Chernabog.

Oof, right in the nostalgias

I heard this game was rushed out to stores.

This game come together with my genesis when I bought it. I could never pass it in spite of have spending a lot of hours playing it

I may be alone here, but I LOVED the game. Yea, it took me quite some time to get used to the controls, but I actually liked how the heavy sorcerer clothing was applied to Mickey's movements. And again, yea, it was really hard to master the controls but once you get used to it, the game flows quite nicely. You may say that such learning curve is boring and unnecessary for your taste, and that's ok. But I enjoyed how the game urges you to take it seriously. You cannot play it recklessly. Even Castle of Illusion allows you to be reckless. I got so carried away by the easiness of COI's gameplay that Mizrabel killed me multiple times cause I didn't know how to take her seriously LOL. And honestly, even for todays standards, I think Fantasia is gorgeous.

my favorite game of 2014

Had I a Mega Drive back in the day, I'd have pestered my parents to buy the Fantasia game... and two days later pestered them more to exchange it with some other game, probably :p I've always loved Fantasia since the theatrical re-release of 1990 and consumed the VHS release, so the idea of a game based on it had me ecstatic, and the (deservedly) nice press one could see at the time around Castle of Illusion and Quackshot, may have led to think this was another instant classic. How wrong. And honestly, it doesn't look even that great to me - the visuals feel inconsistent and have aged worse than other games of the era.

22:20 I know this music! It's Mussorgsky, Night on the Bald Mountain (1867), just as at the start of 2nd level of Earthworm Jim!

Siempre quise saber cómo terminaba el juego, creo que hace veinte años si, que lo tuve y se me rompió y nunca más pude saber sobre su final (me había quedado en el nivel de los hipopótamo que bailan siempre me acordaba) y hoy, se me da por buscarlo por youtube... (Hace como 10 años que tengo acceso a KZfaq) y Zas! Ahí estaba... Xd, muchas gracias y perdón por escribir todo en español...

I wonder why they couldn't include a level based on the "Ave Maria" segment. Maybe this was due to the fact that it was paired with "Night on Bald Mountain" segment.

27:41 Heh, congratulations to you for surviving this shitty game, Mickey.

The original Dark Souls.

One of my best friends in elementary school had this game and Castle of Illusion, and we played both. Fantasia was an example of what NOT to do compared to Castle of Illusion. We got SO frustrated with the controls and the randomness of Fantasia. There didn't seem to be a logic to it, where platforms could just randomly appear if you jumped in the right spot. So many cheap hits too. Granted, it looked pretty, but I vividly remember how frustratingly difficult and obtuse this game was.

Bom dia não tem nenhum codigo ????

Muito bom não conseguir zerar no meu mega drive, o jogo é muito difícil !

Nostalgy ;D

it's one of my favorite movies alongside Lion King

Awesome

Holy crap, the last couple of levels in this game look like they were cobbled together in a few days. How did Sega think this was okay to release in this state?!