The Lion King

The Lion King is a platform video game based on Disney's popular animated film of the same name. The title was developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for the Super NES and Genesis in 1994 and was also ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, PC, Amiga, Master System, and Game Gear. The NES, Master System and Amiga versions were only released in the PAL region, with the NES version, in particular, being the last game released for the platform in the region. The game follows Simba's journey from a young cub to the battle with his evil uncle Scar as an adult.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The game is one of the first games to feature the main protagonist aging throughout the game, in this case, Simba being a young cub at the beginning and then being an adult.
 * 2) Beautiful graphics that look like they came straight out of the movie, thanks to Walt Disney Feature Animation working on the sprites and backgrounds.
 * 3) The soundtrack is fantastic, accurately recreating tunes from the film.
 * 4) Provides a decent challenge for experienced players.
 * 5) Simba gains access to new moves as an adult. He starts with only being able to roar and jump on enemies, but then as an adult, he can gain access to various combat moves.
 * 6) Timon and Pumbaa are playable in bonus stages.
 * 7) Two of the levels, Hakuna Matata and Be Prepared is adapted from scrapped scenes from the movie.
 * 8) The Stampede chase level on the console versions is technically impressive for the time.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The MS-DOS version was the subject of controversy due to issues even getting it to work on computers from the era.
 * 2) It can be extremely punishing at times, even on the easiest setting.
 * 3) While the presentation is overall great, the story isn't translated well, due to the developers not having much to work with in terms of the movie's plot.
 * 4) The NES port, which was released exclusively in Europe, is bad.

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