If you were a child growing up in the late ’80s and early ’90s, two things were almost certainly true about you: You loved playing NES, and you regularly tuned into one or more of the Disney Afternoon cartoon programs. Create a Venn diagram of the overlapping interest between those two things, and what one might find is two circles that overlap almost completely.
It comes as no surprise then that Disney would waste no time exploiting this highly intertwined demographic to its fullest, releasing a series of licensed games based on their cartoons to the Nintendo Entertainment System. In a twist that seems bizarre by today’s standards, these tie-in games were almost all incredibly well-received. Not satisfied with simply releasing shovelware that could potentially damage their media brands, Disney employed the help of renowned developer Capcom to create games that would not only cash in on the cartoons, but actually strengthen their popularity.
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