If you owned a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis or Super Nintendo in the 1990s, you most likely owned one or both of Disney Software?s 16-bit video games: Aladdin and The Lion King. Known for their addictive gameplay, beautiful animation and brutal difficulty, both Aladdin and The Lion King were platformers you just had to experience, but are they still worth playing 25+ years later"

You ain?t never had a friend like me!
Like every other kid I knew growing up, I was obsessed with Disney?s animated feature films; particularly Aladdin and The Lion King. So when The Lion King video game adaptation was advertised around the same time as the cinematic release, I began saving my pocket money until I had enough to buy it for the SNES. So many hours were sunk into The Lion King and yet I was never able to successfully complete it? Soon afterwards I acquired the Sega Mega Drive and a copy of Aladdin, which is arguably one of the best platformers for that console. And with the assistance of a friend, I was able to defeat Jafar! But despite this victory, The Lion King still lingered in the back of my mind. I knew one day I would have to return to the Pride Lands of Africa; to defeat Scar!

Everything you see exists together in a delicate balance
Fast forward to 2019, and both Aladdin and The Lion King have been reimagined in as both a live-action film and stunning photorealistic 3D animation respectively for our cinematic pleasure. With both franchises now fresh in our m...