[csours]

It took me a while to realize that you were saying that the myth was around before the game and Disney. For some reason I thought you meant the game was around before Disney.

[whatshisface]

You thought that because the last (parent's) sentence was talking about the game, and "it" tends to refer to the last noun that was talked about.

[cortesoft]

Wouldn't the last noun be 'the fictional fact'?