Pinocchio
Disney's Pinocchio is a platform puzzle adventure game created as a collaboration between Disney Interactive and Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in 1996 for the Game Boy, Super NES, and Sega Genesis, and is based on the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio. The game was published by Capcom in Japan on the same year.
Also recorded as Disney's Pinocchio · 1996 Pinocchio · 1996 Disney's Pinocchio
Pinocchio
- Date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Disney Interactive Studios · Nintendo
- Genre
- platformer · puzzle video game · adventure video game
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Disney's Pinocchio is a platform puzzle adventure game created as a collaboration between Disney Interactive and Virgin Interactive Entertainment. It was released in 1996 for the Game Boy, Super NES, and Sega Genesis, and is based on the 1940 Disney animated film Pinocchio. The game was published by Capcom in Japan on the same year.
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A Sega 32X version of the game was made and completed, but was not released due to the add-on's limited popularity.
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• Title — Disney's Pinocchio • Developer — * Virgin Studios London (SNES, Genesis) • NMS Software (Game Boy) • Publisher — GenesisSegaSNES Game Boy • Director — Dan Marchant • Producer — * Dave Vout • Patrick Gilmore • Paul Curasi • Designer — Dan Marchant • Programmer — Mike Ball • Artist — Kevin Oxland • Composer — Allister Brimble • Platforms — Super NES, Game Boy, Genesis/Mega Drive • Released — Genesis/Mega DriveOctober 1996 Super NESNovember 11, 1996 • Genre — Puzzle, platform, adventure • Modes — Single-player
Storyline
Storyline
The game uses intertitles between levels to convey the story, in the form of a children's storybook. Pinocchio travels from home and must choose to go to School or Easy Street (though the choice does not affect the level order). He then travels from Stromboli's marionette show to Pleasure Island and then into the sea, where he saves Geppetto from inside Monstro and they escape.
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Coach Kyle of GamePro gave the Genesis version a negative review, commenting that both the gameplay design and controls are shallow and rudimentary, the character animations are stiff, and the graphics lack detail. He concluded: "What a shame that such a long-awaited game, with such a famous story as a foundation, should turn out to be so disappointing". The Feature Creature, however, gave the Game Boy version a mixed review, saying it simply translates the simplistic and easy levels from the Genesis version into portable form.
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- 1.Ziff Davis. 16-Bit's Last Stand. Electronic Gaming Monthly. 89. 193. December 1996.
- 2.Press Start: 16-Bit Shopper Holiday Guide. Electronic Gaming Monthly. 88. 21. November 1996.
- 3.Mega Drive Review: Pinocchio. Mean Machines Sega. 49. 66. November 1996.
- 4.Cyberactive Publishing, Inc. Release Schedule. Videogame Advisor. 2. 11. 67. November 1996.
- 5.Coach Kyle. Pinocchio (Genesis). GamePro. IDG. 100. 122. January 1997.
- 6.The Feature Creature. Handhelds for the Holidays! (Pinocchio). GamePro. IDG. 100. 45. January 1997.
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