(If you previously bought the game you can still download it again only newcomers are out of luck.) Its case is a weird one in particularly too, since Disney has also shuttered its own interactive gaming division. It sucks for fans, because anyone who might’ve been interested in Castle of Illusion, including possibly a high number of people who weren’t aware of it before news surfaced, can no longer play the game. How do you give a photo credit to something stuck in legal limbo? Castle of Illusion is just one game, so who cares, right? But the fact remains that every game that gets delisted means more of the history’s medium is lost.
This is hardly a new trend for the game industry, which regularly sees games removed from various digital distribution platforms for a variety of reasons, often owing to rights-related issues. (Also, the game’s fluid platforming is a pretty hard loss look at that animation.) The title’s delisting from PSN, the Xbox store, and Steam was probably easy to miss among the hubbub of PAX West, but regardless of whether you care about the game itself, pulling it from the market completely is bad for the industry.Īs is usually the case with these events, the delisting happened because Sega’s publishing agreement expired, and for whatever reason the company didn’t seek to renew it, despite its lineage - the 1990 Genesis original was a classic - or the fact that it stars the most iconic cartoon character of all time.
Sega’s 2013 remake of Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse was recently removed from all digital platforms.
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