

So, Mickey's Adventure in Numberland is this old-school NES game where Pete (of course) swipes all the numbers from 1 to 10, and Mickey has to track them down. You jump through five different worlds—like a weirdly futuristic Space Center and Pete’s creepy Hideout—each split into two levels. The first time I played, I got stuck in the Number Factory for way too long because those conveyor belts are sneaky.
There’s a nice touch where Mickey actually talks to you (well, as much as NES digitized speech allows—it’s charmingly garbled). The difficulty modes make it easy for little kids to hop in, but the Advanced setting actually gets pretty punishing if you’re not careful with jumps. Not gonna lie, the Museum level’s music still gets stuck in my head sometimes.
It’s basically a math lesson disguised as a platformer, but way more fun than that sounds.
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