My Biggest Ever Project - Every Disney Game! (Patreon)

Heya, I hope you're doing well!

I thought it'd be fun to talk a little about my current ongoing project. This is a mighty task. Am I stupid? Maybe. I am going to talk about every Disney Game ever made, no matter how obscure!

This all started when in 2022: I made a video talking about every Looney Tunes game (of which there were 430 of them!) I had a lot of fun making that video...even if I did make the mistake of leaving myself barely over a month to make it (literally from scratch - hadn't played any games or written anything yet) due to setting an arbitrary deadline, thinking it'd do well since it was a talking point cause lots of Looney Tunes stuff was happening.

Then last year, I made a video ranking every Barbie game, as the Barbie movie was going to be big, and wow, it sure was! Rightfully so. Sadly my video didn't do super well, which is a shame, but hey, it is what it is.

Then for Disney's 100th anniversary, I thought it'd be fun to talk about the first 100 Disney games. No one had actually done that before...and for good reason, cause doing the research for games that old is...uh...quite hard! I realised during development of the video, that every game from 1981-1991 was exactly 101 games, so it made good sense to keep the title, but just add one more and that covers a full Decade of Disney, and if I want to continue the series, I could do it one year at a time. That seems much more manageable, right? Right! So, here we are.

The Disney video didn't do as well as I'd like, but it's something I'm very proud of, and I've really enjoyed making these types of videos and people enjoy watching them. So, I've decided that I'm going to continue it. Will I go the distance to complete it all? Well, that depends on a couple factors. Do more people start watching it? and do I get severely burned out?

I'll be honest, my channel has taken several hits the past year and a bit. I stopped making as much content, cause I was in the process of moving for several months, my channel got demonetized, meaning I had to change a lot of things, and delete videos that were constantly getting views, among other things. These all kinda crippled my channel . YouTube's landscape has changed and to thrive, you've got to do something different. Will this work? No clue. But I'm enjoying it!

So, yes! I'm in the process of making a video covering every Disney game in 1992! The idea is hopefully this will be a year a month, but maybe It'll stretch to every 6 weeks or 2 months, depending on how much has to go into it. Some years has A LOT of games. Incidentally, yes, I have an almost complete list mapped out! From 1981, to 2024. Every game, every obscure device, every cancelled game, every bootleg, EVERYTHING! And let me tell you, researching this has been very hard. Especially the early years when not a whole lot is documented. To be fair, nor are the 2010s. Mobile games thrived and there's not a huge record of it, so trying to get info, let alone screenshots/footage has been tough. But that's future Teal's problem. I'm in the 90s right now! I've got a couple more avenues to chase up, which will definitely lead to more games being added to the list, but they're much later on, so I don't need to rush on that.

I WILL be covering games that are now Disney games, once Disney has bought properties, but only retroactively once Disney owns them. So, Disney buying Lucasfilms/Lucasarts. I'll cover every one of those that came prior to the takeover during that year. Possibly even as a seperate video. I haven't dared look at those games yet. Same goes for Fox properties, oh my gosh! There's gonna be hundreds!

Oh and here's a fun preview. The video in which I cover 1992, I will cover old ground with the 80s as there are things I missed in the initial First 100 games. It's more like the first 115 Disney games now. I'll talk about what I missed and also have all the games on screen, for each corresponding year with an actual release date if I could find one. This will be the most up to date list of all time, and that's why I really enjoy it. It's preserving history, and not for some small franchise no one has ever heard of. It's Disney! I didn't think I'd enjoy being a historian, especially since I hated that kind of thing during school, but here we are.

The plan is still to get this first video covering all of 1992 out in May; I did get a smidge delayed with being hacked and then being ill, so that struck off 2 weeks of my time. But hey, I'm used to making insanely complicated projects in a tiny deadline!

I hope you look forward to, and enjoy this monumental project. I will try my best not to miss anything, though I think that's kind of inevitable, given how many franchises Disney covers and how many obscure things are out there. But I've been chasing up as many rabbit holes as I can. It's fun, albeit daunting. But I'm discovering them and I'm gonna make this series shine! Oh and no, I won't be covering flash/browser games, unless they're significant. There's literally thousands of them, most of which don't even have a year atached to them. I could work out a ballpark, based on when the franchise aired/released, but in the cases of series on Disney channel, they span 5+ years. That's not the precise figure I'm looking for. If this series really took off, I'd consider it, but we'll see.

Anway, rambling over.

I'll see you for the continuation of Disney's game history soon!

Take care,

Teal