10 Essential Disney Video Games For Hardcore Fans
4. The Lion King
You may not have realized it when you watched the movie during childhood, but The Lion King is Shakespeare's Hamlet, and when you get right down to it, Hamlet doesn't make for a great video game. At least, that's what most people thought before playing a game based on The Lion King.
Where Disney's Aladdin managed to follow the source material rather well, The Lion King deviates from it, but only where necessary to make it work as a game. This made it possible for the game to tell its own narrative while keeping within the film's storyline enough that it managed to work perfectly.
When action scenes like the stampede were used in the game, they helped propel the story just as it did in the movie, and it was noticeable. Of course, games aren't just about how close they are to the source material; they need to be challenging and fun as well, which isn't a problem for this one.
The Lion King is often considered to be one of the best platformers made by Westwood Studios for either the Genesis or Super Nintendo. The game plays equally well on either system, so it's really down to a matter of controller preference as to which console had the best version.