This author has been welcomed back from holiday with a bit of news he never thought he'd see. Disney's Aladdin and The Lion King were two surprisingly good platformers back in the 90s, and it looks like they're making a return on modern machines.
The source for this news is slightly dubious but it seems legitimate to us. According to Twitter user @wolverinefactor, both games are coming to PlayStation 4 in a remaster collection. This was apparently revealed during a GameStop Managers presentation -- the same one where fresh The Last of Us Part II footage was shown. Allegedly, the package will contain the Mega Drive and SNES versions of both games, and is due for release in October. This has been backed up by GameXplain; it received a hastily taken image of the announcement, which can be seen here.
We'd expect a public announcement to be made pretty soon. Do you want to see remasters of Aladdin and The Lion King on PS4? Which versions did you play growing up? Roar at some monkeys in the comments below.
[source twitter.com, via youtube.com, ign.com]
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Still have an MD copy. Great game so may as well get the 'remaster' treatment.
Though I'd hope that they base Aladdin on the Megadrive version.
Oh yes. I would love this. Please be true.
I have very fond memories of the Mega Drive originals.
I have all the originals but this will be awesome
i still have my Mega Drive copy of The Lion King actually
never had Aladdin though
This would be a bit of a surprise-esp. the "option" of megadrive or snes play option. Not saying it wouldn't be cool if it were true though!
Q. Do you want to see remasters of Aladdin and The Lion King on PS4?
A. No.
Q. Which versions did you play growing up?
A. I had already grown up when this was originally released, so I haven't played any. After looking at video trailers, even if I was young enough at the time, I still wouldn't have bought something like this.
I actually love the SNES alladin, though I understand that the general consensus is that people prefer the mega drive version
Mega drive version of Aladdin for the win. Imo much better than the SNES version. But the lion king? It looked beautiful but i remember it being hard as nails.i was stuck on level 2 for ages. Still a great game though
Hopefully it includes the Mega Drive version of Aladdin, it was my first game for that system.
@Hengist Sorry, if you were a 12 year old kid when Aladdin and Lion King were released on Mega Drive, you wouldn't have wanted to play them?
Oh come on,while im delighted these are coming, and I did love them back in the day on the snes,its a cash grab partially! Its obvious the main reason we are getting these on modern consoles,is BECAUSE BOTH ALADDIN REMAKE, AND LION KING REMAKE movies, MADE OVER 1 BILLION WORLDWIDE.
I played the Genesis version of Aladdin back in the day and loved it. What is this "Mega Drive" you all are talking about 🤣 I'd be so down for a remaster of these games, it's been an age since I last saw them.
The Lion King on the Mega Drive was the first game I remember completing by myself without any help. I must have been about 6 or 7 at the time.
It was also the first game I could speed run (without knowing what that was).
I then went and completed it every day through summer just for the satisfaction of throwing Scar off the cliff.
I can’t remember it taking long to beat once you figured out the routes through the monkeys/giraffes and things.
And I remember the animation on them was incredible. Especially being adult Simba. I felt like a beast taking on those hyenas and Scar.
I think I might get this for the nostalgia.
@Turismo4GT Mega Drive = Genesis. It was the name for the console for us people outside of North America.
@SaucyBrotato Lol I know, I was just trying to be facetious, thanks mate.
@Turismo4GT My bad, sarcasm wasn't translated!
"The package will contain the Mega Drive and SNES versions of both games"
Yes, I like them both
@kyleforrester87 I've no idea why you've posted that video gif and what it means. Care to explain in words, rather than cryptic video's? As for not wanting to play them. I thought I'd already established that?
There's no need to say 'sorry' for potentially being a 12 year old that had taste. In-fact, this doesn't really apply to me. Despite prior playing of crappy 1st gen Atari console games, I was around 13 when I got my first computer (back in 1981) and I played combat flight sim's. If I remember correctly, the first one was DI's Strike Fighter 2. With games like that, why would I waste my time with simplistic stuff like Aladdin and the Lion King?
@Hengist sorry, Maverick!
Both games should of been in sega genesis mini.but its all good.word up son
@kyleforrester87 That's better.
@Turismo4GT. Mega drive sounds terrible.horrible name.sega genesis is the best.im from new york i never heard this Mega drive.word up son
@playstation1995 Sega Genesis sounds like a Phil Collins tribute band. Mega Drive for the win (I still have one, wrapped up in a plastic carrier bag, with some cartridges, in a cupboard somewhere).
Yes!!!! Loved these games
It'll be remastered with Will Smith as the Genie and Lion King will be photo realistic right? I hope so, said no one!
@Hengist. Nah sega genesis is the best.phil Collins is the best also.word up son
@playstation1995 Lol, you can tell that you're from New York.
@Hengist. Of course playa.new york is the best dog.word ☝ up son
@ralphdibny with you there bud, snes version was much better for me
Bit random and not sure I believe it tbh.
The Lion King was one of my favourite Super Nintendo games as a kid so I'd be quite happy with this.
@Deljo who needs a sword when you can throw apples?! Seriously though the platforming was really fun. Preference might just come down to what you had has a kid, I had the SNES version and it was so good, I ran through it again about ten years ago and it still held up then!
@playstation1995
Shhh... You'll give Disney ideas about releasing their own micro-console-game-streaming-as-service-machine that you have to rent but also initially buy through Disney+ with a Disney+ subscription.
That section of the Lion King jumping between the hippos tails is still harder than the entire Dark Souls trilogy put together.
@Thrillho Nah, surely it’s got to be the waterfall level. As a kid I remember having to use the cheat to skip that level so I could complete the game. Call me an idiot but they’ve got my money for these. Nostalgia is a good wallet opener.
@KALofKRYPTON a Disney micro console isn't a bad idea actually (minus the streaming, renting and Disney plus subscription). It would only be good if it had every Disney game on it though up to a reasonable generation...
Omg...I loved the lion king as a kid.
Day 1 for me haha
@ralphdibny Everything up to PS1?
Think I had the Aladdin game on the Amiga....?
@Hengist You enjoyed flight sims but claim you had taste?
Btw we’re almost exactly the same age, and I also played tons of Atari before switching to PC in the mid 80s. There were a lot of really good Atari games, tbh, especially for the time. I’m not talking about Pac-Man, Defender, or some others, but Adventure, Space Invaders, Frostbite, Missile Command, Yars, and many others were super fun. Colecovision was also awesome around that time, and Intelly offered quite a few fun games, as well.
@KALofKRYPTON up to and including PS1 would be feasible I guess. I don't want to exclude the PS2 generation but the whole thing is a pipe dream anyway. I doubt they'd do it, there is probably over a hundred games up to then anyway, especially if you include platform different versions like the snes/mega drive alladin
Mind you, I was thinking just platformers only but I wonder if they'd include stuff like Mulan Print Studio (just an example of something random, don't know if it exists lol)
Maybe they could do a star wars console, a marvel console, a Disney classics console and a Disney channel console (for the TV show games). Then Disney can be Disney and make money without going full Disney about it and we can collect more tat to put under our TVs. Buy all all 4 and we get a HDMI splitter in the shape of Mickey mouse....
I have my copy of the Sega Genesis version of Aladdin somewhere, lol.
@ralphdibny I don't think anyone is willing to put in the hardware to reliably cope with running 6th gen stuff.
I think Disney probably had a hand in publishing the majority of the catalogue - but as with SNES Aladdin, not all of it.
@doctommaso It's nice to meet a veteran, who's also been there since the beginning
I can remember playing Missile command, Space invaders and Pong on the Atari, but that's about it. It was so long ago. When I got my first computer and saw the differing types of games which were available on it, I was truly hooked. I mentioned DI's Strike Fighter 2, as being my first sim. However, by today's standards, it was laughable. For example, I remember flying towards my bomb target, when suddenly my plane exploded. It was only after checking the map, that I saw a mountain icon, marked at 4000ft height. The trouble was though, that due to the processing power available back then, the game didn't actually draw any mountains whilst sat it the cockpit, lol. Although the game was classified as a simulation, it wasn't exactly Falcon 4.0, where you spent days reading the manual (lol, remember when games had manuals?) and learnt how to operate all the available on-board radar systems, etc. Happy days.
@Hengist Good times, for sure. When I went to PC, I was hooked on the creative aspects — games like Lode Runner, Pinball Construction Set, Mean 18 Golf, Micro League Baseball, etc. Was such a blast making my own levels/courses/players. Now we have games like Mario Maker 2, which I would have died for back in the day, but I don't have the time to make my own levels!
I got back into console gaming and off PC gaming during the 90s, when it was hard to get PC games to run well and, well, when Super Mario Bros. 3 came out. I've been a modern console gamer and been off PC from that point forward, but I have gotten back into the old Atari and similar classic systems in the past few years, as well.
I know what you mean about PC gaming in the 90's, having to edit autoexec.bat & config.sys just to get your bloody sound card, etc, working, lol As for PC gaming, I still dabble and thankfully, there's non of that 90's nonsense anymore. I mainly play the Pro for VR and strategy/sim's on the PC these days.
@Hengist Glad you can tolerate VR. It makes me extremely ill — huge bummer.
@doctommaso Sorry to learn that. All that time which I spent looping the loop in flight sim's makes me immune. It's all about spatial awareness within a 3D environment.
Seriously, the only VR game that hasn't sat well with me, is No Man's Sky. I find it uncomfortable, due to it's blurry graphics. It makes me want to rub my eyes, which I end up doing. I've also stopped playing it because of this. I'm hoping that a possible Pro patch can sort it out for me.
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