Hey. Normally I would ask ASSEMBler/Lostlevels or whatever, but I'm asking here just because I can.

But does anyone know if Mickey's Castle of Illusion (for the Sega Megadrive) got a preview/prototype look on the game? Before you laugh, this game was surprisingly good - and Al Nilsen said that the Genesis was the first home gaming console to feature Mickey Mouse (this was during a interview on the October/November 1990 episode of Computer Chronicles). 

You'd be surprised who also worked on the game. The game itself was designed/compiled by SoJ AM7 division (an all-Japanese crew). And like much old Megadrive titles, most of the people's names in the credits list were "pseudonyms" so we don't know anything about who they were. Except the possibility that Bo (from Space Harrier fame) did the music and sound effects.

I hope that someday we find a prototype of this game. But chances are very unlikely, due to the little publicity it even had to start with (much of it only happened after release). Also, because the game was developed in Japan. But most importantly, the game predates Sonic 1's development by a few months. Since we can't really find cart based Megadrive prototypes before 1992/1993, I doubt we'd be able to find anything - even Castle of Illusion.

Here's hoping that I'm proved wrong.