Author's Note: Due to unforeseen
circumstances, part 6 of the Kingdom Hearts
retrospective has been delayed till next week.
In the meantime, enjoy this week's article!
-Pedro "Pap" Hernandez
Pap the Disney Gamer's
Highlights: Mickey's Dangerous Chase
Developed by: Capcom
System: Game Boy
Is there something that hasn't
already been said about Capcom? Their
partnership with Disney in the 80s and 90s was
legendary, yielding a lot of great games in the
process. However, Capcom also did many games for
the Game Boy, which at times were just as good
as their console counterparts. Today's game is a
wholly original Mickey Mouse game made
exclusively for the Game Boy: Mickey's Dangerous
Chase.

The story in Mickey's Dangerous
Chase is that Pete has stolen Mickey's presents
for Minnie, and is now making a run for it
through various locales. Mickey then decides to
follow him and try and catch him in order to
retrieve the presents. As you can probably tell
from the basic story, Mickey's Dangerous Chase
is a side-scrolling adventure/platformer where
the main objective is to complete the levels and
reach the very end. Players will traverse
through locales like the harbor, the forest and
Mickey's hometown, with level progression being
similar to that of Nintendo's Super Mario series
(as in 1-1, 1-2 etc.)

What's very peculiar about this
game is that it is based on Capcom's other
Disney game, Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers for the
NES. First, you get to choose between Mickey or
Minnie as playable characters, similar to Rescue
Rangers. The main method of attack is picking up
crates and throwing them at enemies, also like
in Rescue Rangers. On occasion, Mickey and
Minnie get to ride on boats in a high speed
chase through the river and even float on
balloons.

Mickey's Dangerous Chase is a
very simplistic effort. Even some of the
graphics in the actual gameplay are very clean
and straight in their design. But this being a
handheld game, the simplicity of the game is
understandable. Unlike today where many handheld
games compete with console games in terms of
scope and content, handheld games back in the
day were developed to be enjoyed on the game,
and thus were usually lighter in content and
concepts.

Mickey's Dangerous Chase works
great as a diversion once you create the
mentality that this is a Game Boy game. There's
nothing wrong with that, however, as it offers
the same polished gameplay that made Rescue
Rangers a NES darling, but is it light enough
that can be briefly enjoyed when on the go.
Sometimes, games don't need the most complex
concepts for them to be entertaining, and
Mickey's Dangerous Chase is a fine example of
that.