Idk if he mentions it but, the reason the game is hard is because no matter how far you get, if you run out of lives YOU GET SENT BACK TO LEVEL ONE.

@dushas9871

3 жыл бұрын

duh, like in every other game of that time.

@KiIowatt

3 жыл бұрын

@@dushas9871 you'd be surprised how many zoomers don't realize that.

@drpepper4761

3 жыл бұрын

@Shep Proudfoot You millennials need to get a grip lol

@dalok5172

3 жыл бұрын

Most def would destroy this game if that’s true

@splatty3328

3 жыл бұрын

@Shep Proudfoot Who bullied you, guy

"Whether they've played it or not, most gamers know that The Lion King is hard, but what most people don't know is that the developers made the game extremely difficult on purpose. Disney actually told the developers to make the game so difficult that people wouldn't be able to beat it during a rental period"

@SypherSeven

Ай бұрын

I miss games like this. Managed to beat it as a kid too. Took many "faliures," steps, to get there, and seeing this video makes it much more rewarding.

@anthonylombardo1261

Ай бұрын

Also so that the movie could sell better, as the video game wouldn’t be able to spoil the movie for most everyone

@maricampari3970

18 күн бұрын

Bro I OWNED this game and never got past the second stage periot

@nickelshark8163

10 күн бұрын

That is such a classic Disney move. 😂

@scottdorsch5149

7 күн бұрын

Agree. It's not "satisfying hard" like Dark Souls. It is cryptic and the platforms/hitboxes are smaller than they look so you get frustrated a lot.

There was only 2 levels. Everything after that is a mystery. First level was doable, but I never learned the monkey throwing stuff, and gave up.

@RobotronSage

2 ай бұрын

real xD

@hafirenggayuda

2 ай бұрын

I was surprised finding out lots of people having trouble with this game, I thought I'm just suck

@corystarkiller

2 ай бұрын

@@hafirenggayuda Naw man, you must never have talked about this game to others, as it's a universally recognized difficult game. There's no shame in being bad at it, that's the default experience. It's a badly designed game, so there's a good reason most of us never beat it.

@hafirenggayuda

2 ай бұрын

@@corystarkiller well, I played it at mid 90s (old man here), no big internet coverage back then. I found out on late 2000's, when everyone talk about old games

@psylohzoff4073

Ай бұрын

The monkey stuff was so easy to figure out : different color... Game is not easy yet far from hard!

I was never able to get past the stampede section, so it was really cool having the opportunity to check it out.

Me and my friend were convinced this game was broken. "The monkeys dont work"

@tenjenk

3 жыл бұрын

As single digits i never got past the waterfall in hakuna matata. Took me until i came back at 14 to finish it

@TheRealDarrylStrawberry

3 жыл бұрын

@@tenjenk i went back to it at 24 and broke my tv AND cellphone. i beat it eventually. 3 phones later.

@connorcampney1964

2 жыл бұрын

Same never got past the monkeys

@TheDwagonHD

2 жыл бұрын

Atleast better than my big Brother, who knew how they worked, but never told me. He played that level for me so many times, jesus fn god...

@Zach-cc4ft

2 жыл бұрын

I think I got past the monkeys a few times but I had no idea what was going on and it was pure luck.

"You have to have a PhD to beat this game." "This game is what kept Blockbuster in business because you had to keep renting it." LOL I'm dead.

@Lobsterwithinternet

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that and Battletoads.

@eyobedw1

2 жыл бұрын

how about 21:09 he really made me laugh

@bubeable

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously i've reached lvl 3 graveyard about 3 times after playing the second 20 times to reach that. Then you die right at the start against 2 hyenas and cause everybody knows the movie you know you're basically still at the beginning :')

@IndygoEEI

2 жыл бұрын

At one point late in the stream (Pause within 1 second of 21:27), someone mentions that this is indeed what was planned by Disney themselves.

@AJR-zg2py

5 ай бұрын

He's not wrong about the Blockbuster part - Disney told Virgin to make it harder to increase rental revenue, and they pretty much did this all in the second level. After that, the game resumes with its normal difficulty.

6:45 - I got this far but never got past it. This level made me just as frustrated as the battletoads level with the speeders

Lion King Game Producer: You made the last boss super hard, because we don't have an ending cinematic, right? Lion King Game Dev: Um...I thought you said second level.

As a 90’s kid I can confirm that this was and still is the hardest game I’ve ever played, never made it to adult* Simba.

@ThanhPham-yp5ui

2 жыл бұрын

I came back to this game when I was 20 and couldnt beat it legitimately, have to save/load all the time

@danlorett2184

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, ALADDIN on Sega Genesis. Hoooly shit that game was hard AF. That and TMNT on NES.

@gamedrop3262

2 жыл бұрын

@@danlorett2184 You guys are making me feel so goooood lol

@onomatopoeia7505

2 жыл бұрын

...you never made it to Simba? The character you play as? Or did you mean Scar?

@AhmedWoke

2 жыл бұрын

@@onomatopoeia7505 haha I meant *adult simba!

That giraffe level is the cause of my anxiety and trust issues lmao

@piotrjeske4599

3 жыл бұрын

:that last head:

@BloBlas123

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@manalost7

3 жыл бұрын

i did figure out that part but i got stuck .... mostly at dodge the herd level. I did get to the exile lvl a few times but can never beat it. This is when I was playing that game on old 98 or 2k comps (can't remember which one) in the computer class as a kid - about 20 years ago. Good time

@Crow4940

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I hate that level lol

@CorgiiTube

3 жыл бұрын

The ostrich part without arrows gives me anxiety to this day

Think about this: Westwood Studios, the company that made The Lion King, also made the Command and Conquer series.

I had no idea that Westwood Studios, from the famous Command and Conquer series. made the Lion king SNES game, It even has frank Klepaki in the sound department !!!! looking at the credits

this game was ridicolously hard and I managed to put it in the back of my mind for 25 years. thank you for triggering some good old ptsd i love this

@jackskxllxngtxn

2 жыл бұрын

I’m right there with you. I was so stubborn with these games and now I’m having flashbacks to lizards killing me. How hard it was to jump on the giraffe heads properly. Then deciding the game was broken because I had no idea you could go back through the water.

@chupasaurus

2 жыл бұрын

I've played and beaten almost every game for Genesis that isn't Japan exclusive back in the day. NOT THIS ONE, I've managed to pass the canyon stage 3 times IIRC.

@LeynaViera

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO me too 😂😅 never even completed it. Maybe one day… I definitely threw the controller in rage a few times. Wonder what AVGN is up to these days 🤔

@serdoubleyou6239

2 жыл бұрын

Right there with you.

@ronmiller9489

2 жыл бұрын

His the king of the lion king speed run master.

I remember beating this game after playing it for years I literally cried and never again attempted to beat this game again

@Alejosales

3 жыл бұрын

😆🤣🤣🤣

@yurimatos985

3 жыл бұрын

i finished this game more than once when i was a kid, i'm finding it was that hard just now. damn i was a genius.

@scottb6482

2 жыл бұрын

Yea when I figured out how to beat the game the fist time I beat it a few times after that once I knew all the tricks.

@CaleAnderson

2 жыл бұрын

I beat the game a few times when I was like 10 - 13 years old. Quite unbelieveable to think about now. Don't think I could do it again in a million years.

@CloudStrifeGaming-oe7nr

2 жыл бұрын

I played it on sega genesis and I got to the scar fight at the end but never beat him

COMMENT comment This requires a notepad on the side and typed commentary this is how awesome this game was. The most annoying thing was having to go back to the very beginning after you ran out of lives. I Use Timon's "It starts" only one person has ever caught it (at a party, they pulled me aside after and whispered I nodded, lol The first big hurdle was figuring out the combinations of the damn monkey. In hindsight, an invaluable experience when presented with algebra later in life, holding multiple type of integers in one’s mind at a time, etc. Dude. The First frame after the wilderbeast level brought back so many memories. The relief and sheer joy of beating that level, this image sticks on my head. The hunting for lives and saving them for the opportunity to try again at the part that you missed at was so very brutal. Second was the wildebeest level. The HARDEST one Hakuna Matata was HARDEST AF LEVEL OF ALL TIME, BAR NONE. The Gorilla and waterfall were batshit insane was the worst ever and impossible. The fact that you had to START ALL THE WAY BACK was horrible. The reddish level with the lava you had to look for when the covers went down and through trial and error find out the ones that sent you off advancing or dying. He just stands there at the end because the developers know they made a hard AF game and are letting you relish in the accomplishment of beating the game. The only way to beat Scar at the end is to throw him off. You can beat the crap ot of him all the time he still is going to do the annoying grab/swipe/counter. The soundtrack can not be underestimated. The leitmotifs of various sections from the movie expanded upon and looped for video game music, was sublime. Looking back on my music journey, (didn’t learn till 19/20 and the first thing I learned to play was video game music, specifically, ocarina of time and it was because the sound was so ingrained in my head, I played until it matched the memory of the sound in my head) this game has a lot of impact cause of the amount of times one had to play the levels over just to get to the next trial/error type of the game.

Beat this game. Owned it. Parents bought it for my sister. We soon found out it’s one of the hardest games ever made. Took months to beat this game. The stampede level is one of the hardest levels in the gaming if you actually try to avoid the buffalos and rocks. It’s up there with the Battletoads level.

I seriously don’t remember beating the giraffe part either. I don’t think I realized you could roar the monkeys to change them.

@djmeowth

3 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is that it *literally* says 'Roar at Monkeys' at the very beginning of the level. We were stupid children.

@BigDomDefoort

3 жыл бұрын

@@djmeowth where does it say that

@zhenyucai8688

3 жыл бұрын

Even if you knew that it was still some cryptic shit, there are so many of them and you have to roar at them and change their directions multiple times.

@djmeowth

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigDomDefoort 1:18

@apatheticviewer234

3 жыл бұрын

I beat this shit all the time when I was 9 😏

As a kid i did not even believe that you could play as grown up Simba in this game.

@mpetkovic26

3 жыл бұрын

It was a legend among the kids

@mfwiloseintouhoubossfights9305

3 жыл бұрын

That was my driving force to move forward

@ericwiley3963

2 ай бұрын

it was kinda like santa claus.

I remember the stampede stage and the level after it, I don't recall ever making it further than that. This game was stupid hard. Battle Toads on the NES is another game I remember being really hard as a child, although part of that is probably always playing it co-op and degenerating into smashing the crap out of each other and rarely making it past stage 2!

@ 14:43 he gets from the start to the end of the level with that glitch. I had this on the genesis and managed to finish it after tens of tries and having a friend of mine beside me. Pausing the game often -like very very often - especially in the monkey and the "3d" level, to see what's next, was crucial.

Yes. If you never played Lion King, you don’t realize how insane this video is.

@psylohzoff4073

Ай бұрын

Never felt it that hard...

@ReiherAllendi

Ай бұрын

@@psylohzoff4073 yes, its hard, but not that hard... I already finished this game as young

@psylohzoff4073

Ай бұрын

@@ReiherAllendi Compared to Tintin, Lion King is actually highly finishable for anyone who train for some time... I don't understand people considering it really hard when there was so much impossible games! Ninja Turtles... Lion King is perfectly balanced! I'm pretty sure we ain't special... Maybe special in this community!

@ReiherAllendi

Ай бұрын

@@psylohzoff4073 perhaps they didnt play for too long

@psylohzoff4073

Ай бұрын

@@ReiherAllendi I hope so! Would be lame otherwise X-)

I played this game as a kid, and it took me a year to figure out the monkey level. I figured it out by riding my bike to the library. They had the first "internet access" in my rural community, 14.4k dial-up internet, and advertised it at school that you could use "Ask Jeeves" to ask computers questions that books didn't have the answer to! I asked it how to beat this level and the only thing I could find was on an old text-based forum of someone saying "roar at pink monkey" but never said the order or anything. That took a year of trial and error until I finally figured out you could backtrack over that hippo pit and go back to the first tree with the monkeys. I don't think I got any further than that until Game Genie was under the Christmas Tree one morning. That thing forever changed my video game life. lol

@MMORPG87

3 ай бұрын

oddly my dad figured this stage out and beat it when i was a kid. Seeing him play adult Simba made me wanna play it more and more till i finally go there. now im 36

I used to love the bonus stage with the falling bugs and your Pumba trying to eat everything without dropping one 😭

Seeing this makes all the "failures," steps, as a kid to eventually beat it so much more rewarding.

Every jump in this game is a blind skill shot that you have to learn, then memorize in order. They would never make a game like today, this even as a troll move.

@MichaelBricardo

11 ай бұрын

Only up, jump king, dead cells, lonely mountains, hollow knight. Just to name a few....

@STANKORachev

10 ай бұрын

​@@MichaelBricardowrong opinion. Hands down GTA San Andreas is the hardest speedrun in speedrun history

@theultimateevil3430

6 ай бұрын

IWBTG and all of its spinoffs exist, the whole game is like that.

@MikhailAksenovV

6 ай бұрын

Try super meat boy.

@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608

5 ай бұрын

@@MichaelBricardo I've played all of those and this was still harder.

Had it for genesis. This brought back so many memories...even the “it starts” at the beginning stands out....cuz I had to replay that shit like a thousand times 😂

@mokane86

3 жыл бұрын

Even all these years later it is likely the most viewed "level 1" opening of my life... Even though I never replayed it once after that multi-months long drag to beat 😅 Because yeah I can't think of another game I had to restart 7,500 times. Including the point where I would restart if I lost a life early because you know why waste time to that inevitable game over if you need every available life. "It starts.." "It starts..""It starts..""It starts..""It starts.." I swear he sounds exasperated already when he says it because he knows how many times he has repeated himself.

I don't remember you had to beat the hienas to progress in that level, it is meant to be a laberynth and you have to know which cave to take. But if you pay attention all hienas are stunned in the last level, so I think he takes advantage of them being all super quick to beat in the previous level to get them to be stunned in the last one and focus on the platforming

The giraffe head level of this and the car level on the toy story game were the most difficult gaming experiences of all time.

This game was ridiculous . Had it on Sega. It still haunts me .

@checkitautgameplays8255

2 жыл бұрын

yeah , was on sega.. im thinking if i play it on playstation 1 or sega...

@derbudz

2 жыл бұрын

Noice! I also had it on SEGA. I actually made it to the last level, but never was able to beat Scar. As far is I remember, the levels overall where a little different than the SNES version, especially the "adult Simba" ones. //edit: Okay, I just watched a Genesis (Megadrive) speedrun and there's no difference in the levels.

@LionsideDisciple

2 жыл бұрын

@@derbudz no, I had the sega and it was different. Last level totally different too, you’d go down through a lava level and fight him in the lower-lefthand side of the map, not climb up and fight him on a plateau at pride rock.

@raulsantana163

2 жыл бұрын

Sega's version is even harder, if I'm rembering correct

@UncleBuck3t

2 жыл бұрын

it's on the switch now

When I was a kid I played Lion King, Aladdin, Earthworm Jim and Battletoads non stop on Sega Genesis and I had the whole game muscle memorized. Looking back on it now they were so ahead of their time. As much as I loved these games nothing will ever compare to all the Donkey Kong country games. I still play those with my wife to this day.

@juniortarantino9099

2 жыл бұрын

God I miss playing battletoads

@PlanetParasite

2 жыл бұрын

Fighting snake Jafar was fun

@foragegrasspause2gotoloop961

2 жыл бұрын

Rumor when I was a kid that it just wasn't possible to beat Mike Tyson in "Mike Tysons punch out". I believed it. I never beat soda popinski

@kronicassault1374

2 жыл бұрын

@@MassiveSwordAndCards yea I probably do. You and hundreds of other people.

@nexxusty

2 жыл бұрын

Donkey Kong Country was the best SNES game by far. That's saying something too. Everything about it was and is amazing. Especially the music. Maaaan that game was a masterpiece.

Bro, this is gonna make me get back into my SNES. I never had a ton of games, but the Mario multi-cart, Killer Instinct, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Donkey Kong Country...I rarely beat any of them, but games you can play for years off and on speak for themselves. I remember getting to adult mode and flipping leopards but I don't think I ever beat this one. No time like the present, when gaming hates its customers at an unacceptable level.

Lion King, Aladdin, Hercules and Toy Story. The Four Horseman of the SNES

When I was 13 I rented this for 3 weekends straight. Had to use pen and paper, but I finally beat the giraffe level in the 3rd weekend. After that I considered myself done and never touched this game again until much, much later. Then I got stuck in the waterfall in Hakuna Matata.

@thespectator9637

3 жыл бұрын

@@UltimateGamerCC what did the guy say?

@lapatjani3171

3 жыл бұрын

I actually managed to get to the waterfall. Then, I considered it done too lmao that shit is hard. I played through the game as an adult and that shit was still crazy. I beat the game tho, felt good.

@bonechip01

3 жыл бұрын

Loktuna Ogatata

@jardelelias5625

3 жыл бұрын

@@UltimateGamerCC ok, now i'm also kinda curious.

@jardelelias5625

3 жыл бұрын

@@thespectator9637 Ok, I looked into my replies history and found the comment. Something stupid about asmon being racist. In all caps of course. Good riddance.

This is bringing back some mild PTSD

@pillowpants1324

3 жыл бұрын

Such a good game. Do they even make games like this anymore?

@jessers436

3 жыл бұрын

By game you mean ptsd testers ?

@MilesProwerUA

3 жыл бұрын

It's wild how I was playing this game like 18 years ago, and I still remember like "Ah, yes, this thing oneshots you. Ah, yeah, this part is unfair"

@dab2312

3 жыл бұрын

try demon's crest, much more infuriating

@badabing7044

3 жыл бұрын

This game was hard and the stampede was bugged lmao jk

I completed the megadrive version as a kid. The waterfall was the hardest part until you figure out that you can jump in a certain pattern to scale it quickly.

Such a good game, I reached Scar when I first played it, but never realized I could throw him, got super frustrated and quit. Only a couple of years ago I realized you need to throw him (and learned how to throw him) so I finished it lol. I played it on MsDOS, and actually lots of games had some type of trick right at the end so I never finished most of them (looking at you Prince of Persia and your invisible platforms). Feels good to be able to get back to them and actually finish them.

I never passed the second level on Super Nintendo back in the 90s. This speed run is nuts.

@aliquidgaming1068

5 ай бұрын

Same I feel like I got past it once and then died and then never got past it again Btw did you ever play the NES Aladdin game? The first flying carpet mission I think where you have to escape the sand lions cave, sent me over the edge as a kid. It was so hard

@nickynicknico

5 ай бұрын

@@aliquidgaming1068 I certainly did! Miss those games. Good memories. :)

@Martin-sx4bx

2 ай бұрын

Never passed the second lvl on sega Genesis 😂

@ThinkCMYK

2 ай бұрын

The game has glitch in second level in SNES version because one hippo's tail don't swing so you have to do money throws 3 times to pass. On SEGA there was no glitch so it was much easier to pass 2 level😂

@franktorres2915

Ай бұрын

I played the genesis version and I couldn’t get passed level 1

This video made my week. He is 100% spot on, hardest game ever. I played the shit out of this game and never got to the stampede level hahahaha!

@widexawake_

2 жыл бұрын

I'd contest that Beyond Oasis or Battletoads is probably the hardest game ever 🤔

@AlemtoMage

2 жыл бұрын

Naw this game was easy, try ghost and goblins xD

Different horse different race. This game is a casual romp for me. Dark Souls Remastered was the first souls game I ever beat and it was very, very difficult for me.

I still like Asmo's reactions to speedruns,they're(both runs and reactions) entertaining :)

asmongold " i cant believe someone memorized this whole game" also asmongold " this is the burning sword of everlasting fire from the dlc of the long long far ago only released to those possessing the chains of endearing hardships......"

@SaintGabriel11

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!

@zephyrion

3 жыл бұрын

People speedrun 20 hour games... AsmonPls

Imagining doing this without KZread or the internet.

@lightup6751

3 жыл бұрын

We did this in the 90s boys. just rumors and word of mouth but most of all never giving up and relentless passion to beat the games

@celularphone

3 жыл бұрын

@@lightup6751 I remember the 90s those rumors weren't all true

@elapplzsl

3 жыл бұрын

Dear god yes 😂😂 It took us like an year but me and my bro did it.

@lightup6751

3 жыл бұрын

@@celularphone what rumors you talking about?

@celularphone

3 жыл бұрын

@@lightup6751 hit a when the poke ball moves increases catch rate.

14:32 WOW he just cut past all the worst parts in the game

13:07 Lol I struggled so much to get simba to preform that UFC move but I never could figure 😂

Haha, watching chats reaction to the "I just can't wait to be king" level is hilarious. I thought I was the only one that was traumatized by this game.

@wowguy1243

Жыл бұрын

fuckin hated that level

@itxofficial8281

Жыл бұрын

Believe me, you were not. "The Lion King" was the reason why I stopped playing video games altogether as a kid, because I thought was just too stupid for them. This and "The Jungle Book" for the original Game Boy were ridiculously hard!!

I never watched a single stream of this guy, but seeing him watching this speed run and pointing all the stuff in the game just made it 10x better...

@frankmarano1118

2 жыл бұрын

Idk man he plays it up. He acts like hes never seen a speed run before in his life. He just does the :0 face the entire time. It's too fake for me. "Whaaa did he just jump over all of them!? Whaaa hes running really fast in a speedrun?! Wha but this is like harder than dark souls bro! Wha?! He jumped over the enemies & ignored them like every SINGLE speed runner does in every single game. Wha?!?!?!?" Like come on lol

@GGamersUnited

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankmarano1118 lol he is actually genuinly like that

@frankmarano1118

2 жыл бұрын

@@GGamersUnited lmao I'll take your word for it. That's at least better than faking it at least

@GGamersUnited

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankmarano1118 I have seen a few of those and he makes that open mouth face indeed a lot. lol He does seem shocked not how speed runs work in general, but how exactly they do it in particular spots in the game itself

@frankmarano1118

2 жыл бұрын

@@GGamersUnited Okay that makes more sense, probably because when he played he went through the level how you're supposed to. That makes way more sense now, thanks

"Try Alladin on a 386 with VGA monitor where there's a boulder comming out of you and you're escaping from the cave and you cannot see the holes in the ground and you have to precisely jump at a moment otherwise you will fall in the hole. At least in this game you see everything, there you see only your character running and the boulder behind you and nothing else, you have to remember all your path and all the times you have to jump to avoid the holes." (on VGA black/white monitor you couldn't see the holes in the ground, you need at least SVGA monitor to be able to see those holes).

Don’t worry asmon, no one got to the stampede

@Kustan112

19 күн бұрын

No one I knew ever made it past the elephant graveyard.

17:23 "Wait is he AOE farming them?" xD

@KotokamiX

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfaooooo I’m dead 😂😂😂

The second level is the one where people can't get past because it's complicated and you got to know which monkeys to turn. My brother taught me you could do that and we eventually figured it out. The latest I can remember is those stumps on the waterfall. Anything past that I think we always died

@robson124

Ай бұрын

For me, the hardest part on the level, was that ride on the ostrich. The double jump was veeeery glitchy.

That waterfall level was insane and when I finally did it, I got adult simba. One of his attacks used the bloody windows key. I had to play the rest of the game in a tiny window! Nightmare.

If you die, the game sends you back to the first level. Which means, speedrunners had to play the first levels multiple times just to figure out exploits. Which is pretty nuts.

All I remember is having nightmares about purple monkeys throwing me around in a circle. I can honestly say I have never seen anything after. My motivation to complete the game tarnished after hours and days. Luckily, many more hopes and dreams followed and now I have alcohol to put me to rest. God bless all.

@RobotronSage

2 ай бұрын

LOL

This game was hard AF, but the one that got me and my entire family was THE LITTLE MERMAID! Fml when my sister managed to beat it I'm pretty sure we all were there watching having an after party 💯😂☠️

@kakami7

6 ай бұрын

oh, I remember that one! :D another hard game was with the Orca and some alien thing as final boss D:

@RDD87z

5 ай бұрын

THAT FELT AWESOME!!!!!!!

@RDD87z

5 ай бұрын

​@@kakami7 wow i think you talk about ecco the dolphin. ... the final boss was the VORTEX QUEEN!. that game was hard wasnt it?? OMG! thank god it had passwords to start the game from specific levels you already finished.

@kauaichan

5 ай бұрын

@@RDD87z I remember watching my dad play that one! Hard af!!!👏💕

If you could decipher this game as a child, you grew up to be a codebreaker in the NSA.

crazy i didnt remember playing this until you made this video.

That was Westwood Studios .. I worked for them in the late 80's

@CheefChaos

3 жыл бұрын

Why did you do this to us?

@chileanguyfleegman1908

3 жыл бұрын

They did some awesome games.

@rogerpiotr6977

3 жыл бұрын

@@chileanguyfleegman1908 They started RTS genre if Im correct they made game called "dune "

@marccram6584

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogerpiotr6977 I was a designer on Dune 2.

@marccram6584

3 жыл бұрын

@@CheefChaos Blame Louis Castle .. He loved really complicated games.

Thanks for this Asmon! So sentimental, happy to share in it with you. Played this at my Grandma's house after elementary school, she was cool. Would beat me in fighting games and racing games. This game reminds me of Bubsy, one of her favorites and mine. She probably could would've held the speed run record haha.

That was a great run. Haven't seen this in over a quarter century so MAYBE I could pull it off in 3x time. Guy's a pro fr fr

I got to the wildebeast stampede, saw one level afterward, but THAT IS IT. I had this game for the weekend as a rental. It was really tough to learn how to play the game in two days.

The co creator of this channel used to speed run The Lion King and wanted to do it on YT. She was in the hospital a lot and not with us anymore. We never did decide on a channel name.

@AngelicBeatdown

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss.

@ValenceFlux

3 жыл бұрын

@@AngelicBeatdown Thanks I appreciate it. I try not to bring it up much and I probably shouldn't but the memory tugs at the heart strings just a bit.

@ch34p5h07

3 жыл бұрын

@NeWbTuBeR1995

3 жыл бұрын

Im so sorry, life is so god damn unforgiving some times

@monchiexthemonkey6068

3 жыл бұрын

69 likes 😎

I finished this game, looking back, no clue how. Hardest part was that one freaking double jump in level 2.

@jaydub2546

Жыл бұрын

I don't even think it's that hard anymore, I'm going to try again right now though lol

Good memories. I remembered beating on scar and wondering why he wouldnt die. Dont know how many complete play throughs it took to throw him off the cliff.

Aladdin is insanely easy compared to Lion King!

Dam, I remember being stuck at the giraffe head level. One of the games I played the least but remember the most.

@arc00ta

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I thought I buried the trauma from this game and then this video has to pop into my recommended.

@dantemacias2411

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t get past a young Simba parkour level 🤣

Its such a beautiful game with such great graphics and it's a shame almost noone saw the cool graphics bc we couldn't even beat the 1st level

The lead designer also worked on Aladdin, and that thing was the second game I never finished after Lion King. This guy was the instrument of my failures, but I just now found out.

I remember playing this game, the Aladdin game, and the Jungle Book game. All of them were hard

"this game is what kept blockbuster in business." Ha ha ha!!!!!

This game is such a blast back. The ostrich jumping was the biggest block of the game in my opinion. After that, the game was so so enjoyable. A platformer game done perfect. I've gotten to the point of grown up Simba and left the save there cause it was my favorite part of the game.

@robson124

Ай бұрын

Your extremely right!! The double jumping was very glitchy, it had to be perfect timed or we just hit that damm nest.

We played Hercules a lot, but my brother recently pointed out that while we got FAR we never actually beat the final boss. And not because we truly got stuck, we just moved on. So he went back and beat it some months ago, for completionist reasons. Overall we were more stuck on Punch Out. I remember my brother always threw me the controller for Spopovich, because he could never figure him out. And I threw it to him for the guy with the turban. Ironically I actually got us past the 2nd turban guy the first time. And then we kept using me for the 2nd turban guy, and him for the first. Both of us loved to relax and beat fatty tho, he was sooo easy. This game I mostly just tried out a bit at a friend's place. I don't think I got past the 2nd lvl. But I know I saw him play at the adult stage. At the time we had our first Playstation and N64, and we were playing more Mario and Tekken 3.

I only remember ever getting to the stampede level a few times. Such a hard game as a kid.

I remember playing this game as a kid and just grinding HOURS trying to beat this shit. When I finally did, I felt something akin to joy, but it was really a sense of “fuck this game, but it was fun”

@ssteg1

2 жыл бұрын

No one asked

@LPnoa

2 жыл бұрын

@@ssteg1 how sad your life must be to comment on that...

@romeyjclark

2 жыл бұрын

@@ssteg1 that was literally the most pointless comment I've ever seen. No one wants or cares about your random enraging comments. Sorry you're lonely with no friends because you don't know how to simply interact with other humans😢

@Melgaer

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the experience I had when after finishing first Daark Souls game.

As someone that speedruns this game, seeing your reaction to Akiteru’s run is an absolute joy. He is a god at this game.

@pokiblue5870

3 жыл бұрын

I kneel at you for speedrunning that game.

@an-cx1ho

3 жыл бұрын

so you jst sit around doing nothing and suddenly think to yourself why not do a speedrun of a 25 yo game ?

@NicholeGoodnight

3 жыл бұрын

@@an-cx1ho Yes, how did you know the exact process taken? Truly amazing.

@ilmauco

3 жыл бұрын

do you work at NASA?

@firghteningtruth7173

3 жыл бұрын

@@NicholeGoodnight you gotta tell me....theres another way to get thru the giraffe level, right? I swear to god the way I got thru was WAY less complicated. I never got past the stampede tho. Girls. 😒 I shoulda doubled down. Edit: Just...disappointed in myself.

Not gonna lie, I do remember beating this game as a kid, BUT I did have an older brother and few cousins and we figured the shit out together. The final boss versus Scar you can even trap him in a corner and punch his face forever, he will never die. The last 'puzzle' at the end is that you have to survive a period of time in the fight and then to 'kill' scar you need a perfect throw. Like in the movie. I remember getting to Scar a few times but never figured out how to kill him, I think my cousin figured out he can only be killed if thrown.

"This took me days to beat!" Pretty sure it took the speedrunner days too, he just memorized everything to optimal perfection. Don't worry mate, you're not _that_ bad

For the people that never played this game: Yes, this game is freaking hard. Here are a few reasonst why: - Very limited amount of health, lifes and continues. A lot of them are hidden. The dude in the speedrun doesn't take much damage because he played it a billion times, but as a kid it is a different story and you WILL take damage in certain stages. - Very limited amount of healing. A few Scarabs/Bugs heal you, but they are very rare and its hard to tell which ones are the healing ones. - the platforming was scuffed. For example if you have to have to swing from one platform to another, you have to jump very precisely so that simbas paws grab the platform. it was not enough to just hit it with simbas body. - not possible to save the game. If you lost all continues, you have to start over form the first level. - certain scripted events oneshot you. For example in stage 3 when the water is rising, you have to jump VERY fast and super PRECISELY again to make it to the top. If you are a few frames to slow, the water touches you which instant kills you. Same for the 5th level and the first level where you are an adult. If the rolling rocks touch you, it insta-killst you. Combine that with the point i mentioned before and sometimes a single part of the game could kill your run. Oh and there is one rock in the first adult level that hangs from the ceiling. you have to jump, cut the liana and let the rock glide. if you position yourself wrong, the rock insta-kills you - scuffed controlls in the second level. When you are riding on the ostrich, you have to time every action super precisely again. If the game tells you to duck and you press down, your character ducks and is locked in that position for a certain amount of time. Then he stands up automatically again. You CAN NOT simply hold down to duck. And the double-jump had to be super precisely, too. You could NOT just spam jump two times in a row. You had to jump (at the right time, otherwise you die instantly), wait for a specific amount of time and then jump again. If your timing was off you were dead. - Since there was no saving, espacially at the later leves you stick to you strategies and don't experiment around since that could kill you and made you lose your run - NO INTERNET. A few mechanics where not obvious at all...Examples: Shouting at the red Monkeys in Level 2, how to beat the boss in the waterfall level and even Scar, the boss at the end of the game was "strange". I beat the game a few times, but for some reason the last Bossfight was super strange. Sometimes i could beat him very fast. Sometimes it seems that he did not take any damage at all and i was punching him for minutes...And most of the time you were on your last try if you reached him. If he killed you, restard the game...So you could not even figure out why he took no damage that run... Besides that, the game was fun! :D

@thatoneguy9582

3 жыл бұрын

-Jank fucking game

@mrillis9259

3 жыл бұрын

Played this for about a year, could beat it an mostly figured out the monkeys. Was fun to replay for the reasons you mentioned. It was a tough one. I wonder what game took me off to a other adventure after this master piece

@emptythecup

3 жыл бұрын

Scar is invincible. You literally just have to throw him off the cliff.

@lee155912000

3 жыл бұрын

I rented this game back in the day and never got past the 2nd level the "wish to be king" level with the giraffes. I would've been less than 9 at the time when me and my older sister tried to play. Funny enough I kinda have not so great feelings about Blockbuster because they took over all the other video/game renting stores in my town and no one see tp remember them. Where I lived there was a single building with Blockbuster and a rival called Wild Star Video. My family always went to Wild Star Video and only used Blockbuster after they took over the whole building. Then I moved to another town and they didn't even have a Blockbuster it was a different movie/game renting place that is out of business now.

@Insanity-vv9nn

3 жыл бұрын

Its literally dark souls of SNES. About the hitbox thing, its very true. I never beat the waterfall woods because I jump but simba fails to touch the woods often

After beating it multiple times, I remember the logs on the waterfalls on Hakuna Matata, and either the Hyenas or Scar in the final battle that gave me the most trouble. It might have been the difficulty of NES games when we were younger that forged us into og gamers.

@violetflame1980

2 жыл бұрын

I played both SNES and Sega and found the Sega version easier

2:13 That's a lion that knows what he wants, and I ain't lion either.

Simba's Exile is the farthest I've ever got.

Ending a brutally difficult game with "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" was bloody brilliant.

"Is he AOE farming them?" cracked me up 🤣🤣

30 years later. i finally got to see the full game.

I got up to the Hakuna Matata level consistently, this lvl was my Everest when I was a kid. The waterfall and that damn gorilla. Only once or twice was I able to get to the last lvl, honestly it was the Hakuna Matata one that kept me from finishing it, it took me sooo much to beat it that I rarely played the last lvls and the damn labyrinth at the end was just a time sink.

@TurtleRaven

2 жыл бұрын

That fucking waterfall. I could get to it but not past it. My stepbrother got past it *once* but we couldn't get past Simba's Return.

@tasor1186

2 жыл бұрын

Wait if u died did it send u back to the beginning????

@klauseba

2 жыл бұрын

The minigame where the bugs fall and you have to eat them with the pig was my favorite part :D

@aquathird5918

2 жыл бұрын

@@tasor1186 yep. all the way to level 1.

@vahlok1426

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Hakuna Matata was my bane as a kid. I remember outright memorizing the rest of the game up to that point, but never figuring out how to get through that level.

I used to love this game so much, the soundtrack was beyond godlike for a kid at the time

Hey Asmon, I was born in 1990. I did the same renting it over and over from Blockbuster. It took weeks but I did get to the stampede level. After reaching it twice and losing all my lives though I did ragequit.

Most games released before 2000s are harder than dark souls

I'll never forget how much my siblings and I freaked out when I finally killed scar and heard simbra roar from atop pride rock. It was an incredible feeling of triumph after months of effort between us all. Forever memories... damn we gettin older fam. Good times

@MiniNinja258

3 жыл бұрын

Did you had to restart if you die

@HashimotoDatsu

3 жыл бұрын

@@MiniNinja258 If you die with no lives left, you startat the very beginning of the game. There aren't any saves.

@MiniNinja258

3 жыл бұрын

@@HashimotoDatsu ouch that sucks

Imagine being a kid playing this at a church with all your friends during youth group

@kylenki

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of, "gosh, darn, dang," in place of other things.

@hia5235

3 жыл бұрын

This game caused many late fees from renting it.

@UmamiPapi

3 жыл бұрын

@@dailydosageofinternet5926 no

@filipraos8072

3 жыл бұрын

@@dailydosageofinternet5926 trying to get banned before reaching 20subs?

@filipraos8072

3 жыл бұрын

@RickTheRedBrick show it

People really underestimate how hard many older games were, usually to the point of being unfair. This is one of my fav games (had the Mega Drive version though but it's identical), beaten it multiple times as a kid but going back to it now it feels a lot harder than I remembered lol.

A soul crushing game for sure lol I remember getting through the giraffe stage through sheer luck and reps, then the jungle stages killing my will to play.

I remember beating this game as a kid. I didn't think much of it then but looking back, I must have spent hundreds of hours trying to master it. Sure level 2 was bad, level 5 was also tricky, the waterfall level was tough but I remember the lava level that was pretty much skipped here being the hardest by far. It was level 8, no passwords so it was so unfair when you lost all your lives there. Took me forever to understand what to do in that final part. And then it ws Scar, again took me forever to realize I needed to threw him off the cliff. And again, final boss and no passwords and not an easy boss either. Tough game. Looking back, I would give up if I have to beat something like this now. Actually I would just look for a guide in youtube on how to do it and it wouldn't be that hard I guess...

@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725

Жыл бұрын

Bro that lava level. The secret wall you gave to just know you can go through.

@BouncyCritsIsMeta

11 ай бұрын

And if Scar pounced on you cuz you tried to throw him without him being stunned... You caught the hands... till you died

@Exknight2

7 ай бұрын

@@BouncyCritsIsMeta Actually i beat Scar easily after throwing him by chance i understood what had to be done, it was a 1st try on Scar but the game was quite tricky in a lot of parts, like the volcano rocks falling, i think the last boss was easy compared to the levels which were annoying if you had to restart due to no lives but in these games repeat till perfection was the way.

@maplesyrup8369

6 ай бұрын

Same, never thought of it as super difficult until a year or two ago when I heard ppl talk about it. Looking back it probarbly was a lot harder than I think it is.

@kekistaniattackhelicopter2242

5 ай бұрын

Compared to this X-COM TFTD looks like a game for todlers.

This game took me years to beat as a kid but I finally conquered it! Biggest bucket list accomplished in my life

Almost 30 years ago, I spent hours on this game, with my brother and my sister. We focused on this game while waiting for news from a friend at the hospital. I kept restarting the game, complaining about the passage of caves and hyenas, I got through to the end but never managed to kill Scar. After the death of our friend, I never played this game again. I lent it and the console to an acquaintance who never returned it to me. In any case, The Lion King allowed me to clear my mind during difficult times. Good and bad memories

I didn't play it on SNES. I was a Sega Genesis kid and played it on that. He is 1000% correct about it being way harder than Dark Souls. Most games back in that time we're extremely difficult. I don't think I ever beat a single game I played on that console and I played a lot of games on that console for nearly a decade.

My mom who was in her early twenties at the time got all the way until the final battle with scar but could never figure how to beat the level.

@houseburner1801

3 жыл бұрын

Cuz the game never rly teaches u how to yeet enemies I literally beat that last part by accident

@smokeythebear99

2 жыл бұрын

@@houseburner1801 I yeeted him, but never over the edge. So I just kept fighting him. Forever. Called a 1-800 game helpline to learn how to beat him. I was 7.

I like how the ending credits plays the Can You Feel the Love Tonight song, which implies that once Simba took over, he immediately went to work knocking boots.

@DinnerForkTongue

12 күн бұрын

Let's not think of how that'd be inbreeding...

I remember playing this on my Sega. Didn't realize it was on SNES too.

The game was designed to be practically unbeatable. When Blockbuster was at its peak they wanted to make sure you kept renting it and not just beat it.

This and Battletoads on the NES made me into the gamer I am today.

@QCteamkill

3 жыл бұрын

For me it was TMNT: Turtles in time.

@rafamatavelli3399

3 жыл бұрын

Man, battletoads in battle maniac, the jet bike stage. Fuck that. Lol

@Emeronite

3 жыл бұрын

That turbo tunnel level of battletoads was a nightmare, I just gave up on that.

@claing17

3 жыл бұрын

yes man! me too! battletoads is harder than this. i was able beat the lion king a handful of times. i never was able to beat battletoads.