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and Game Boy Advance.

Gameplay

The game features Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy playing major league American football. Players pick a team to play in Challenge, Cup, Exhibition, and Practice modes against a number of opposing teams, and have a choice of magic items to help their team. The game includes commentary.

Characters

The game introduces several new characters to the ''Disney Sports'' series, including: Mortimer Mouse, Scrooge McDuck from '' DuckTales'', José Carioca from ''

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'', the Big Bad Wolf from '' The Three Little Pigs,'' and the alligators from ''

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'', though they have no lines. Each character has their own specific team name: * The Superstars (

Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an animated cartoon Character (arts), character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red sho ...

) * The Charmers (

Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. As the longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a bow, polka-dotted dress, white bloomers, and low-heeled shoes occasionally w ...

) * The Seaducks (

Donald Duck Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is known fo ...

) * The Belles (

Daisy Duck Daisy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. As the girlfriend of Donald Duck, she is an anthropomorphic white duck that has large eyelashes and ruffled tail feathers around her lowest region to suggest a skirt. She is ...

) * The Spacenuts (

Goofy Goofy is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. He is a tall, Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic dog who typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled f ...

) * The Lords ( Max Goof) * The TinyRockets ( Huey, Dewey, and Louie,

Scrooge McDuck Scrooge McDuck is a cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company. Appearing in Disney comics, Scrooge is a Scottish-American anthropomorphic Pekin duck. Like his nephew Donald Duck, he has a yellow-orange bil ...

and

José Carioca José "Zé" Carioca (; ) is a cartoon anthropomorphic parrot created by the Brazilian cartoonist José Carlos de Brito (J. Carlos) and shown to Walt Disney in his trip to Rio de Janeiro in 1941. The Walt Disney Company then incorporated the ide ...

) * The Steamrollers (

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) * The Imperials ( Mortimer Mouse) * The Wolfgangs ( Big Bad Wolf) * The Headhunters (Alligators from ''

'', but led by one named Boss instead of Ben Ali Gator) * Mickey's All-Stars (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Max) * Pete's All-Stars (Pete, Mortimer, Big Bad Wolf and Boss)

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, '' Famitsu'' gave it a score of 22 out of 40 for the Game Boy Advance version, and 28 out of 40 for the GameCube version.

References

External links

* {{Konami-stub 2002 video games Disney sports video games Donald Duck video games Game Boy Advance games GameCube games Goofy (Disney) video games Konami games Mickey Mouse video games Multiplayer and single-player video games Games with GameCube-GBA connectivity