8 Best Movie Licensed Video Games Of All Time

Disney’s The Lion King is remembered by those who grew up with it as one of the greatest animated films of all time. However, the property is also celebrated as one of the best SNES games of all time… that being a slight exaggeration. The Lion King game has a modern-day cult following, though it deserves some additional attention.

1994’s The Lion King is something of an underrated classic: a great action platformer which was perhaps more faithful to the movie than should have been possible on hardware of the era, players will navigate through ten 16-bit recreations of famous scenes, all the while jamming along with an amazing chip tune rendering of the film’s legendary soundtrack.

The Lion King game is best remembered for it’s punishing difficulty, which must have frustrated plenty of younger SNES and Genesis players back in the mid 1990’s. Those who persevered, however, no doubt hold fond memories of this relatively overlooked Disney title to this day.

Loose cartridges of this game typically go for as little as a five spot, and avid collectors would be wise to snap this title up should they come across it in a used game bin.