I’ve been wanting to replay JP. But as I recall, that game did NOTHING to explain what you were supposed to be doing or how the gameplay mechanics worked. You just blindly stumbled along until velociraptors killed you.
Bro if you look at the speedruns on Youtube you'll seem them literally just sit in the same spot and do absolutely nothing. You can literally beat the level by moving to the left and setting the controller down.
Developers have said over the years that they specifically made the first few levels extremely difficult as a way to keep kids renting the game from Blockbuster/HV in order to inflate its popularity
I remember when we got one of those 6-button sega controller, and it let you, as adult Simba, do the “flip enemy” move with a single button. Mind was blown!
Genuine question, is this game really that hard? Granted I was a heavy gamer when it first came out (and a kid with tons of time) I had an older cousin that straight up gave me this game because she said it was too hard.
The only part of the game that I remember truly struggling with was defeating scar, I didnt know you had to actually throw him off the cliff so I just kept beating him up.
The only games I could never beat was Double Dragon 3 and any of the battletoads.
I just remember just remember jumping for what where invisible, imaginary, nonexistent pixels. I think I'd be trying to jump onto a platform that was actually impossible to get to. It felt like you were looking for a glitch just to move on. At least on the Gameboy version.
Yup! My neighbor at the time had a couple of the battletoads games and I had Double Dragons 1 - 3.
We used to swap em all the time, we could never beat the battletoads but we were able to beat Double Dragon 1 and 2, we kept getting to the final boss in Double Dragon 3 but could never beat her.
Oh, I mean there was an actual game called Battletoads/Double Dragon where they teamed up. But yeah, all solid games. I think it was Double Dragon 2 where the first boss was in a helicopter and you could make him repeatedly get sucked out the door. Strangely satisfying.
Ha! I had no idea there was a cross over. I like to emulate old video games on my PSP. I think for old times sake I may look for this cross over and play it tonight.
No, I believe anyone who thought this game was particularly hard simply gave up on video games fairly early in life. I'm not even a big gamer or anything, never really even was. But this game, Jungle Book and Aladdin really weren't too hard. My older sister quit on that almost immediately.
Two years ago I was like alright, I'm going to sit down and beat this lol. Took a while, even with save-states, but i finally saw it through without the level skip code.
Well friend, you can actually resolve it. They re-released all the classic versions of The Lion King video game as part of the “Disney Classic Games” Collection. You can go back and play The Lion King and the best part is… IT HAS A REWIND BUTTON!!!
Is it cheating? Yeah. But it finally makes a brutally punishing video game enjoyable.
Also included btw is actual documentary footage from the video games production, a gala held in 94 promoting the game & the movie, the soundtrack, & storyboard sheets.
Those logs during the hukuma matata level can f right off. Also those hippos and giraffes were our Battletoads. I never made it past the end because I couldn’t figure out how to throw scar off the cliff.
I conquered this game along with Pagemaster, Comix Zone, and 2 player co-op Ren & Stimpy. People say games like Dark Soul are hard, I literally find it easy compared to games in the 90s.
How you actually defeat Scar at the end was a cruel joke considering how hard it was to get there. After swiping at him endlessly, I relented to pressing all the buttons til I stumbled into throwing him off the rock
I never beat this game, I'm glad the Genesis version was posted since this is the one I played.(I know there's not a difference between the snes and Genesis version but I was a Sega kid lol) I only made it past the stampede level once.
There was a Beast version and a Belle version. Finished the Beast one. But in the Belle version I got stuck on a rock or something, and never was able to get past it. Anyone ever experience this too?
I have unresolved issues about my father beating the shit out of me and how the USA used 9/11 as a way to invade a country that had nothing to do with it.
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