{"id":309,"date":"2011-11-07T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T17:40:49","slug":"adventures-in-the-magic-kingdom-nes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (NES)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one may seem a bit childish on the surface, and it does somewhat come out of left field compared to the other games I’ve written about.<\/p>\n

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1990 - NES (Capcom)<\/p><\/div>\n

Capcom had the rights to create Disney games for quite a while in the late 80’s to mid-90’s, and they took that license and ran with it.\u00a0 So many memorable games came out of it – DuckTales<\/em>, Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers<\/em>, Aladdin <\/em>for the Super NES, just to name a few.\u00a0 Adventures in the Magic Kingdom <\/em>is another one of those games, but playing the game now doesn’t have quite the same effect it did when I was little.<\/p>\n

I never had that “urge” to go to Disney Land when I was a kid\u00a0(or Disney World, I never remember which one is where).\u00a0 I didn’t really like Disney movies or cartoons all that much…\u00a0 I was a Bugs Bunny and Road Runner junkie, more than Mickey Mouse\u00a0and Donald Duck.\u00a0 Still, games like Mickey Mousecapade<\/em> and this one held my attention quite a bit.<\/p>\n

As with many of my gaming memories, this one goes back to Baie Sainte-Anne, playing on that old television in my grandmother’s room.<\/p>\n

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Something like this one, but not quite.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0Remember the buttons *other* than the dials to change the channel?\u00a0 There were sometimes three, sometimes more, and their function was usually to adjust the brightness or contrast of the image on the screen.\u00a0 I never touched them, usually, but playing with one of those buttons during a Magic Kingdom<\/em> playing session\u00a0changed the whole gaming experience.<\/p>\n

The “Tint” button…\u00a0 oh yeah.\u00a0\u00a0Turning it different ways\u00a0turned colors on the screen\u00a0all out of whack; water turned red instead of blue, fire turned green instead of red, and everything you knew about the game just changed.\u00a0 What color would Bowser be once you got to him?\u00a0 You just didn’t know!<\/p>\n

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Pirates of the Caribbean!<\/p><\/div>\n

It was actually at this exact point in the game where I paused it, and then started messing with the Tint button.\u00a0 If my skills with Photoshop were any good, I’d try to recreate the messed up colors I ended up getting.\u00a0 As it is, I’d have to take a painfully long time in MS Paint to do it, so we’ll just have to end up using our imagination.\u00a0 The fire was blue, the main character’s hat and shirt were red, and the captive woman’s dress was purple.\u00a0 To me, it was like playing a new game entirely!<\/p>\n

From there, I did the same thing with other games, and it added that extra layer of fun when playing games at my grandmother’s.<\/p>\n

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