Mickey's Ultimate Challenge

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Mickey's Ultimate Challenge is a puzzle adventure where Mickey (and sometimes Minnie) explores Beanswick Castle to solve problems and collect magic beans. It was released in 1994 for the Super NES, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Master System, and Game Gear. The Master System version, released in Brazil in 1998 by Tec Toy, was the last Master System game. Players move Mickey by walking, jumping, and going through doors. The game has five main challenges, a segue, and a final task. Completing challenges earns items that become magic beans.

Five challenges
- Sorting Books: In the library, floating books must be sorted alphabetically by jumping on them. The number of books and patterns change with difficulty. After sorting, Horace Horsecollar gives an item.
- Moving Potions: Mickey is shrunk to tiny size and on a chess-like board with potion bottles and obstacles. Pots must be pushed into a magic mirror. More boards appear as the game gets harder. Completing this returns Mickey to normal size and earns an item from Donald Duck (dressed as a wizard).
- Picture Matching: A timed memory game where portraits on the castle walls must be matched. Mickey uses a feather duster and a sliding ladder. When finished, Daisy Duck (as a princess) gives an item.
- Playing the Pipes: A memory challenge where pipes light up and make sounds in a pattern. Mickey jumps on pipes to repeat the melody in the correct order. Huey, Dewey, and Louie reward you with an item.
- Guess the Tools: Goofy asks Mickey to guess the tools in his toolbox. Players have seven attempts, with clues after each guess to show which tools are correct. The correct guess earns an item from Goofy.

Segue and final task
- Exchanging Items: The items Mickey collected aren’t for their original owners but help others in Beanswick. Returning each item correctly earns a magic bean.
- Final goal: After getting all five beans, Mickey returns to the well, plants the beans, and a giant beanstalk grows. Climbing to the clouds, he wakes a sleeping giant by unscrambling a picture of an alarm clock. With the giant awake, Beanswick’s troubles are solved.

Reception
The game received mixed reviews. Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Genesis version 6.25/10, saying it’s a bit easy for puzzle veterans but fun for younger players. The Game Boy version was rated 6.75/10, with similar notes about accessible puzzles for younger gamers. Nintendo Power described the SNES version as fun for its intended audience.