I'd assume because Kemco had mostly gotten out of console development (checking out their profile on GameFAQs, it's 98% mobile games since 2004, with a few retro releases).
OH MY GOD I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS A SERIES, watching the video Santa posted I was like "this looks sooo familiar". I have and LOVED Mickey Mouse: Magic Wands! for Game Boy. I die, I wish it was on virtual console. I use to play that game to absolute death. It's one of the few Disney related games I actually ever had, and thanks to that game when I see Mickey or other related characters I stop and take a look to see if it's something I'd be interested in.
Looking at the series now, why did Japan get the Mickey games and the west got the ridiculous other crap, and then they just switched it at the last second to Woody Woodpecker for everyone from Mickey. I SO remember that game and thinking ew. Mickey = American but we didn't get it lol.
The characters were probably switched for licensing reasons.
Kemco did a LOT of changing characters between regions.
They made a Donald Duck (in Japan) game for the NES that got changed to Snoopy in America.
Out of Kemco's "Mickey Mouse" games, "Mickey Mouse III" for NES became Kid Klown outside Japan (although it looks like they once considered keeping the Mickey license, as an English Mickey prototype exists). Mickey Mouse IV for Game Boy became Real Ghostbusters in America and Garfield Labyrinth in Europe.
Strangely enough the first two Mickey Crazy Castle (Japanese Game Boy versions) got re-released in Japan on a single cart with the Bugs Bunny license like the US had.
I would've guessed maybe their Looney Tunes license expired by the time the Woody Woodpecker game came out.
Makes sense, but still is weird they couldn't keep it continuously Mickey here, unless their plan was to not have 1 series but sell more to westerners by changing the series up instead of having the same thing visually, over and over. The west does not seem to like stuff as much when you start adding numbers to the game that are over 2 or 3. Change the name, change the license, and it'll sell.
Seems to happen a lot, a series will stop here but will continue on up to iteration 5.
I'd like a new game, like how Toki Tori came back for WiiWare (but not completely different and crappy like Toki Tori 2). Keep the Crazy Castle and name and series numbering even without Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse or Woody Woodpecker. Use one of their own characters or make up a new one. Dr. Franken in Crazy Castle 6? That would work.
No. I like to find topics I want to post in. I don't see the point in making a new topic when there is already one open. It's not exactly a fast paced forum in some parts.
Anyway, are you here to talk about Crazy Castle or do you just go around spamming off-topic posts about other users? At least I was discussing about the topic in question.
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