Developer: Westwood Studios, Virgin Interactive, Dark Technologies
Platform: Sega Genesis/Megadrive, IBM-PC, SNES, Game Boy and other consoles.
Release Year: 1994
Stephen's Rating: 4/10
Basic Plot
The story mirrors that of the original The Lion King movie. You play as Simba and start as a young cub. As the game progresses you become an adult lion, and ultimate face off against your uncle Scar.
Gameplay
The Lion King was a side scrolling platform game with an emphasis on acrobatics.
Simba was able to leap, climb, and run through levels avoiding obstacles. He also had age specific abilities including a roar, and slashing and mauling.
In the bonus levels the player was able to play as Timone and Pumba.
This game was originally released on the Windows platform (whilst other PC games were released for MS-DOS at the time). Due to a bug the game caused Compaq computers to crash when the game was run. The game was shipped with over a million PC's and was a major setback for Microsoft because game studios became distrustful of Windows as a gaming platform and preferred to use MS-DOS. The outcome was that Microsoft developed Direct-X which is the standard for modern video games today.
Positives
Good music. Solid visuals.
Negatives
Confusing. I couldn't work out where to go or what to do most of the time, the levels weren't designed in a way which directed the player in the right direction.
Memorable Moments
I died and re-started the game a lot and there was always this voiceover which said "It starts..." which is imprinted into my mind.
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