Happily Ever After is the fake sequel to the Disney classic Snow White. I know that is sort on confusing, but since many of the characters Disney played with are public domain it allowed other, not so great companies to ride their coattails. The movie was created by Filmation and featured a star-studded cast of actors on voice duty. It told the tale of what happened to Snow White after her happily ever after.
Quick recap: Her lover is captured by the Queen’s brother, She finds 7 Dwarfelles (female Dwarfs) to help her, she murders a dude who thinks she’s a murderer, musical number, and scene.
The film was set up to be a pretty big thing, so big in fact that a game was commissioned to launch alongside the movie. Games take time and money, so Filmation must have really been banking on Happily Ever After to do gangbusters -It didn’t.
But before everything tank game developer SOFEL started working on a tie-in to the film for everyone’s favorite gray toaster, the NES. The game was deep into development and the marketing department even ran pieces and previews in gaming magazines of the time.
Then the movie came out and everything went to shit. Due to the poor reception Filmation canceled the Happily Ever After video game and that is where our story ended. The game simply became lost to the ether where so many NES games went as archiving wasn’t really a thing back then.
Fast forward 25 years to Austin, Texas where a copy of the completed game was purchased by Sean McGee. Thankfully Sean is a true gamer and dumped the ROM to the internet so that everyone can get a chance to play this lost gem. In a collector community that holds games hostage and is filled with assholes, Sean is a true gentlemen.
You can snag the ROM file for Happily Ever After from the bottom of this Nintendo Player page that goes into greater detail on the game.
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