A dissapointment 10 years in the making
I loved the lion king when it came out, I mean really loved it, I was little enough for this to be acceptable, but I could rattle off the entire script if I had wanted to! - I realised at this point that I have a weird brain for remembering stupid things, but I digress.

the computer game came out and we got a copy, 3 floppy discs and I was amazed, the graphics were as good as a CD ROM! wow!

I loved this game, played it all the time, but I got stuck on the Hakuna Matata level. After much juvenile frustration and trying, I eventually gave up about a year later, I had made my peace with not finishing the game and realising that I never would, for me the game ended there even though I had been looking forward to seeing adult simba and using all his new powers, the game ended at hakuna matata.

the game got uninstalled and re-installed on many different computers through the 90s and I still never got past those bloody floating logs. then one day, about 10 years later, I pick up the discs again, and install it. the graphics were good, but I'd seen better by now. I remembered every move, every secret, and i played the game as effortlessly as I used to when I was little. then, hakuna matata came. the floating logs. I jumped, and jumped and jumped and before I knew it, I hadn't died, I had reached the platform with the stupid monkey boss on it who threw coconuts at me king kong style.

I ended the level, Finally I was going to see what adult simba was like, and perhaps, finish the game.

Now here is where the dissapointment sets in, adult simba was cool, but the level after was frustrating but easy, and then that was it.

The big finale of the game which I had been waiting 10 years for was pants! No, it was beyong pants, simba roared and plants grew. That. Was. It.

10 years.

I'll stick to monkey island when I next feel like playing retro games.
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Fri 27 Jun 2008, 8:50, 6 replies)

Yes
I too was obsessed with The Lion king, and i got the game on the good old sega mega drive.

I couldn't get past the very end - i assumed that you just had to maul Scar around a bit until he died - however many times i tried to kick his arse he'd jump up to the next bloody level.

Turns out you have to roll him over 3 times and eventually he falls over the cliff.

I managed to get hold of this game for my GP2X - how the buggery did i get past that stampede level when i was 10?!

EDIT: Yes the ending was ever so disappointing - but i think most of the Disney games had them.

I think my major slump came in the penultimate level where you had to go through the caves and kill all those bastard hyenas. Took an ice age to work that one out.
(chili_kitten Cheese, peas and honey bees, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 9:26, closed)

Ridiculous
That game was insanely difficult. I got a copy of it again for an emulator recently, for the sake of nostalgia, and it took me hours (with save states etc) to get past the second level. And the third. And fourth....
(Merrep, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 9:39, closed)

Here, here
Can't go wrong with SCUMM
(Milo Minderbinder, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 9:40, closed)

i'm glad
that people agree with me, I could do the stampede level ok, but the other ones were tough!

indeed you can't go wrong with SCUMM, but I was a little disappointed with the latest 2 monkey islands.

I wanna play the lion king again now, why do I do it?!
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Fri 27 Jun 2008, 10:12, closed)

I actually quite enjoyed the latest monkey island
not as good as the first two naturally, but still not bad

I strongly believe that monkey island one and two turned me into the ridiculous person I am today.

that and kipling's just so stories
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 11:31, closed)

Monkey Island
was that the 3D one? that was pretty cool, did you manage to do it without a walkthrough? I'm sorry to say that I just couldn't, some of the puzzles were just a bit too far-fetched, still great fun though. i did enjoy when guybrush put the block of tofu on his head as a disquise in the cartoon-y one
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Fri 27 Jun 2008, 11:42, closed)