{"id":16448,"date":"2017-05-17T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2017-05-03T01:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T01:02:31","slug":"the-disney-afternoon-collection-ps4-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/the-disney-afternoon-collection-ps4-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disney Afternoon Collection (PS4, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in the late 80\u2019s and early to mid 90\u2019s, Disney had a block of weekday after school cartoons on TV called The Disney Afternoon.\u00a0 They featured such memorable and high-quality shows like DuckTales, Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, and many more.\u00a0 Tons of people, including myself, have very fond memories watching these cartoons as kids.\u00a0 I guarantee that if you search for Disney Afternoon on the Web or YouTube, you\u2019ll find lots of folks gushing about these shows.\u00a0 Anyway, around this time, game maker Capcom published some licensed games based on many Disney Afternoon properties for the Nintendo Entertainment System.\u00a0 Back then, just like today, most licensed games were not very good.\u00a0 But Capcom bucked that trend with their Disney games, as most of them were just as good as what the best the NES had to offer.\u00a0 In fact, Capcom\u2019s Disney and Mega Man games were more memorable to me as a kid than Mario!\u00a0 Anyway, many other gamers can attest to the statement that these games were good.\u00a0 And now, Capcom has gathered six of these classics in a compilation called The Disney Afternoon Collection.\u00a0 Although they might as well have called it The Cary\u2019s Childhood Collection.\u00a0 Anyway, you can download this set of games on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but it\u2019s reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The six games on this collection are all 2-D in nature, but are mostly very different games.\u00a0 DuckTales is a 2-D platformer where you play as Scrooge McDuck, and you use your cane in creative ways to defeat enemies and bypass obstacles.\u00a0 You can tackle the sprawling stages in any order, and can explore every nook and cranny to find hidden treasures.\u00a0 This game was so popular that a couple of years ago, Capcom released a Remastered version<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 DuckTales 2 was released a few years later and is more of the same, but now Scrooge can do a few more things with his cane and find upgrades for it, too.<\/p>\n

Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers is also a 2-D platformer, but it focuses more on action rather than exploration.\u00a0 You can play with one or two player co-op as Chip or Dale as you run, jump, pick up objects (or each other), and toss them at bad guys.\u00a0 The sequel is more of the same as well.\u00a0 TaleSpin is more of a 2-D shooter as you control Baloo in a pint-sized version of his Sea Duck plane as you shoot down enemies and collect cargo for points that you can spend to upgrade your plane.\u00a0 And finally is Darkwing Duck, which plays very similarly to Mega Man.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve added a few new features to this collection.\u00a0 Probably the most handy one is the rewind button.\u00a0 At any time during the games, you can push a button to rewind your actions in case you make a mistake.\u00a0 NES games are known for being brutally hard, and while Capcom\u2019s Disney games were a bit easier, there are some parts in these games that are a bit tough, so this feature makes those games a bit more accessible (TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck are especially more difficult).<\/p>\n

There are also Boss Rush and Time Attack modes for each of these games, and they\u2019re really fun.\u00a0 You can even see leaderboards for each mode and watch how they got their times in replays.\u00a0 There is also a gallery where you can view cool artwork and interesting facts about the games.\u00a0 And they all look super sharp and crisp in 1080p. \u00a0Plus you can save your progress in any game.<\/p>\n

It was really hard for me to find any problems about these games, but I guess there are a couple of minor ones.\u00a0 20 bucks may seem like a lot for a handful of NES games that you can beat in a couple of hours each, but when you look to see how much the cartridges for these games cost now, it doesn\u2019t seem so bad.\u00a0 Some may complain that this game isn\u2019t on the Switch, which is a shame, but I don\u2019t think that\u2019s Capcom\u2019s fault.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s Nintendo for keeping their upcoming Virtual Console service so secretive.\u00a0 We don\u2019t even know what it\u2019ll be like, and that may be what\u2019s preventing Capcom from putting this collection on that console.\u00a0 And finally, it would\u2019ve been nice to have seen some of Capcom\u2019s SNES offerings on here, like Goof Troop (which unlike the cartoon, the game was surprisingly good).\u00a0 But those are only minor problems and this is still a highly recommended collection.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

The Disney Afternoon Collection is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Mild Fantasy Violence and Use of Alcohol and Tobacco.\u00a0 When you beat enemies or get defeated yourself, characters just fall off the screen and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 In the first Rescue Rangers game, when you battle Fat Cat, he flicks cigar ashes at you as an attack, so that\u2019s where the use of tobacco comes from.\u00a0 Just a sign of the times, really.\u00a0 Use of alcohol is even stretching it further, as the only things I could find is that in the Rescue Rangers Casino Stage, you can climb on giant wine glasses as platforms. \u00a0And in the sequel, one of the bosses drinks something that lets him breath fire (could be alcohol, could be hot sauce) But that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

When people ask me what games are good to start kids out on, I usually recommend older games like arcade and console classics.\u00a0 They are easier to understand and the controls are simpler and the games are less violent.\u00a0 And these are good examples of those kinds of games.\u00a0 Normally, NES games are brutally hard, but Capcom knew their audience back then with these titles so most of them are a bit easier.\u00a0 And the rewind feature makes them even more accessible.\u00a0 Plus, I loved these games so much as a kid, that I can\u2019t imagine today\u2019s kids not liking these games either.\u00a0 In fact, I liked these games so much, that in my next blog, I plan to write about each of the games in this collection in more detail, and also share my personal memories of each game and the cartoons they were based on.\u00a0 So check it out later this week!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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