
Three Maui Mallard kiosks were prepared in the Disney Interactive exhibit at the Innoventions plaza of EPCOT. The game premiered for the North American market at Walt Disney World in September 1996.

The game was one of the first games to be released under the Disney Interactive Studios label. It was this late version (not the European ROM) that served as the basis for the port on the PC. In fact, an NTSC version of the Genesis game was released in Brazil, which the developers refined after the PAL version was released and were still going to be released in North America in early 1996.

The European and Brazilian versions for Mega Drive have dozens of gameplay differences, both graphical (some sprites were added or changed, for example, dust appeared under Maui's feet) and software (bugs fixed, all passwords changed, etc.). The original game was not released on Genesis in North America, because Disney Interactive was not a publisher in the console games market at that time and it did not have a North American publishing partner to release the game there.

The Mega Drive version was released in Brazil and Europe, while the Genesis version was only available on the Sega Channel in North America.
