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THE MOUSE IS MISSING

◼ was pulled from the market just a few weeks after its launch. The reason? The ghost of Walt Disney! During his lifetime, must never be transferred to any medium other than film – but neither Infogrames nor Sega knew about this. It was only when Walt’s nephew Roy Disney, who had taken over the company in the late-Sixties, was told that there was a game based on the film, and went ballistic, that this was changed. ’s entire advertising campaign was withdrawn, all unsold copies of the game were removed from stores and physically destroyed.

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