YMMV / Disney's Animated Storybook

• Awesome Art:
  • The graphics in Toy Story are on par with that of its parent movie, courtesy of Pixar developing the game.
  • Much of the later entries also got much better in the animation and art department as well, thanks to the efforts of Disney artists and animators.
• Funny Moments:
  • Toy Story:
    • "Warm... Warmer... HAAAWWWT."
    • "Sugar-coated candy now on sale in the side room." (Stampeding kids run and cheer in one direction.)
    • "Young Green Warrior Reptiles are now available for autographs in the main room." (Same stampeding kids run and cheer in the other direction.)
    • The first page for Sid's room is mostly spooky as in the movie...unless you click on the boombox. Suddenly, disco lights and disco music come on and Buzz starts breaking it down in the middle of the room until Woody turns the boombox back off and tells Buzz to knock it off in a deadpan tone, with Buzz sheepishly apologizing afterward.
• Growing the Beard: The series gets better over the course of the first five games, with Toy Story becoming the point of when the series started getting really good.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In Toy Story, one click point in Pizza Planet leads to Buzz busting a few moves to an upbeat version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (most well known for its use in the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey). Three years later, we'd see him hopping across platforms to this same exact tune in the Fake-Out Opening of Toy Story 2.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: The Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too installment had only eight story screens total, while all the others had a range between 12-18 screens (the Hunchback installment had 26).
• No Problem with Licensed Games: This series usually stood toe-to-toe with Living Books in terms of quality. Of course, when you have Disney animators assisting in development, it's no surprise. Interestingly enough, Media Station, the primary developer of the series, is looked at unfavorably by Living Books fans for their entry in that series, D.W. the Picky Eater.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Historically speaking, as it has since become a blip on the radar, but when The Lion King was first released, Compaq made a deal with Disney to ship the game with a new computer line of theirs. Unfortunately, said new computer line also used a new video card with a new graphics driver that was completely untested with the game or the WinG API it used. Said setup caused blue screen errors when attempting to boot the game. Whoops. Needless to say, this generated a ton of bad PR for all parties involved, a lot of understandable anger and distrust among consumers, and is a large part of what led to the creation of DirectX to ensure this would never happen again. ^note This story is sometimes erroneously associated with the 1994 tie-in platform game, but this story precedes the release of its Windows version by two years.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: Hercules features a game of checkers at three difficulty levels that you can play against Hades or one of your friends, with commentary from Pain and Panic when pieces are captured. It's so addictive you can forget about the rest of the game.