The Lion King (Sega Genesis) James and Mike Mondays
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- James Rolfe and Mike Matei play The Lion King for Sega Genesis and also a bit of the Super Nintendo version! Check out Mike's Twitch here / mikemateilive
See Mike's full lion king playthroughs
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#LionKing #Retro #Sega #JamesRolfe #MikeMatei #RetroGaming
Watch me beat the Lion King on Sega Genesis here: czcams.com/video/zH97u6_o_IM/video.html
The worst Lion King production is the Woodrocket parody 😂
Cinemassacre - I have SNES version. The cheat code (BARRY) is mandatory
Are the rumors true? Lil Esco is coming in to shoot some content with you guys?
@@tdog5993 thnx for the info now the game is BEATABLE
twenty five no problem
Mike: “‘Beauty and the Beast’ is one of the worst games ever made”. James: “Oh really? Then we have to play it”.
An AVGN episode is certainly brewing
Itay Bashan Right. Lol
I played that fucking game when I was a kid. I can't wait for James to rip it to pieces.
That would've been a great funny AVGN episode beauty & the beast the roar of the beast The birthday boy: Do the roar
not proud to say I have beat that game lol
Fun Fact: The PC version of this game is directly responsible for the creation of Direct-X by Microsoft in the 90s.
So you're saying all the BS gameplay mechanics in the game we now use for the power of good?
nice information bit! i never knew that.
why this game was the reason?
@@rilluma not this one, the pc game was released right before the drivers needed were switched for all pc's. PCWorld gives more info
That's a cool fun fact 👍👍
and direct-x eventually became the xbox
"I was watching horror films or whatever" - James When Someone Asks Him if he Saw Something Super Popular.
he's such a hipster
"Did you ever see Lion King 1½ ?" -Also James
I know lol xD
It's like he doesnt realize that everyone watches horror films, you can still watch Lion King as well. Why be tied to one genre xD
Disney Games as an AVGN episode
Ever seen beauty and the beast?
“The film or the porno?”
O.o
13:30
Rafiki : The king has returned
James : The king says “f**k you”
This makes my day
James is getting a bit frustrated to be sure.
The King’s gonna take a Mufassa sh all over this damn game!
LOL I was gonna comment that when I saw YOUR commentary XD
his nerd side awakened
Letting you grab onto a Hippo's ear: Genesis does what Nintendon't.
Giving u a 1up before the shtty part, Genesis does..,
I'm 90% sure I've done that on SNES. Maybe did the exact same thing elsewhere in the level, but definitely did it.
@@emmettturner9452 i got both versions and yes u can do it on snes
exact same game on both consoles
19:44 - Mike you had me laughing with that look in your face. Total joy but also hatred at the same time.
"Bitch!" Hahahahahha
4:59 James: "could there be a AVGN Lion King Episode?"
The fans: YOU BET YOUR ASS!!!
Hakuna matata... Hakuna mahfuckinShit!
YOU BET JURASS
"Don't play the SNES version"
Me who grew up with the SNES version: ._.
They’re the same
Amiga 1200 here.
SNES version has better sound and colour, the only reason some people prefer this version is cos SNES version is cropped
*closes fists in rage*
That's me with Marvel vs Capcom. "Marvel vs Capcom is a fantastic game but the Playstation version is horrendous", and to this day that's not only the version I grew up on, but the only one I've ever played.
I'm surprised that there hasn't been a Disney games AVGN episode.
I'm not, I never saw James as much of a Disney man
Temple crumble level in Jungle Book, that was brutal.
@@isetmfriendsofire uh. What? James has said multiple times he LOVES the Disney classic movies.
the worst game ever is Fantasia for Genesis
I’m having Mandela effect right now, I was certain there was an AVGN of the lion king
Of of my all time fav nostalgic childhood games! :)
I remember when I finally got passed the second level I was so overcome with happiness I had no idea what to do.
The amazing thing is that company that made this game would go on to make Command and Conquer.
The PC, Amiga and ST version of this game was solid tbh.
I think they goofed on the consoles
Wait...Westwood?
@Sandman Slim Shinji Mikami made Resident Evil,not Westwood? Are you thinking of Aladdin for the SNES?
"Is this like a Nerd... thing?"
Oh, James, yes, it is. Just seeing the thumbnail made me angry. I still feel the PTSD anger towards this game.
Child me was angry at this game in the 90's. Adult me is angry at this game right now. Elderly me will be angry at this game in the future.
I only played the SNES version, so all I can say is: Fuck the monkey level. Fuck this game.
Lol, that’s really cute
I remember thinking, “u know what, I’m gonna beat that monkey level today”
Mickey Mouse - Ahuhuhahaha, foolish earthling...
Thierri
I think it’s my least favorite hand of all time
James was going full Nerd on the SNES part of the video
@@Amory-wd3ws You into that, you freak?
I loved this game as a child. It was so difficult, but I finally managed to beat it.
"Get all the shit" best gamefaq walkthrough ever XD
“If u don’t get the sh ur f’d” - Mike’s walkthrough for every game
Disney games have that "one broken level" problem in general, I'm still have some minor PTSD from that escape from lava level in Aladdin
amen to that, Disney did difficulty well until they seemingly stopped giving such a shit somewhere in the 2000s/2010s.
I never had a problem with the "Just Can't Wait to Be King" level as a 7 year old. I couldn't get up the Hakuna Matata waterfall though.
Tim Yac lol same here
Same here!!
That waterfall..... Like the hardest moment from my sega-period of childhood
@Tim Yac Hakuna Matata definitely was not true to its name, many of my past playthroughs of Hakuna Matata decided whether i would make it to the end, or fall like Mufasa.
I expected too much from this game...
Just for reference, The Lion King is basically "Lions perform hamlet" so the Lion King 1.5 is a reference to "Rosencrance and Gildenstern are dead" which is about the comedy relief characters are doing off screen during hamlet.
Nah
They purposely made the second level harder, this was back at the time when companies were fighting Blockbuster with renting out video games. The whole idea was to make it so hard that in order to beat the level you would need to own the game to have enough time to master the level
But I guess people were so frustrated they never bought the game after renting it? I mean, I had this game and never beat the stacked hippos (yes, on the snes), so I just moved on...
i always got stuck on the stupid stampede part. but i had this on the game boy
joe schibetta game boy is a terrible port
@@johnnyfeeney5015 i realized that later on, but i was like 8 and had no say in that decision lol
That's terrible logic. If the game isn't fun, then there will be no incentive to complete it. That forces the game into "rent, don't own" territory.
... I played the SNES version. My suffering was legendary.
Mine was too. The part with the jumping ostrich was almost impossible. And the elephant graveyard is brutal.
Even in hell?
Are you making a Hellraiser reference?
Beat this game on SNES at 7 years old at my leisure. It was never a struggle for me and I didn't play games that much back then.
TJC Congrats you’re the best video gamer since video games wow wow oh wow
Mike: "the beauty and the beast game is one of the worst games ever made"
James: "oh really? we gotta play it"
I always played the SNES version, and it was good. Very hard, and entertaining at the same time.
I love, what they did with the ’Easy Mode’ in Lion King. They gave you 9 lives (because 0 counts), and Simba’s a feline. Get it? 🦁
Y'know the designer confirmed in an interview that level 2 was intentionally hard in order to combat the rental market. They didn't want to be able to beat the game in a weekend. :/
And they obviously needed to combat something that only existed in the US. Pal regions can just eff off
@@trash8521
Only the amiga version didn't have the 2nd level because of those damn 800kb floppies
pretty sure other pal versions did, at least the 16-bit ones
@@trash8521 not sure what you're smoking, you could rent megadrive games at Blockbuster
What a bunch of idiots. I rented it twice and had it beat.
I had the SNES game as a kid...in 2001. This damn monkeys level was my hell. Eventually I got so depressed about it my mom called Nintendo customer service to complain, and stayed on the line so long they offered to mail her a coupon for half off a gamecube if she'd stop yelling...and that's how I got a gamecube for christmas!
An AVGN Lion King Episode would be awesome, especially playing the SNES version with by going over the poor jump detection and hit detection in certain levels and comparing it to the Sega Genesis version.
And a guest player (like Animat or Nostalgia Critic for example) would be perfect for a Disney Games episode (with Lion King and others like Jungle Book, Little Mermaid, Aladdin)
The Genesis was a weird case when it came to the sound..... It eather freaking amazed you or really disappointed you.....there was basically nothing in between
Always had bass either way.
agreed, a lot of great and terrible soundtracks came from Genesis, Streets of Rage 2 for example has a timeless soundtrack.
@@UltimateGamerCC SoR 1 too
The soundchip was really good, but kind of difficult to use effectively.
Streets of Rage or Vapor Trail was an example of excellent use, whereas something like Flicky or Frogger was probably the very worst
At 19:45 that had me rollin ... perfectly said Mike .
I wish I was Mike's neighbor so I could hear him hollering at the Lion King video game in the middle of the night
6 months ago or so I had some friends pick the most frustrating SNES or Genesis games for me to play and they almost overwhelmingly sent me this one... Took weeks to finish and I had absolutely zero fun the entire time...
@thecouchtripper haha, whoo.. not sure I'd be able to get through it.
I finished this as a kid. Some parts were hard but there were way worse ones. Was the SNES version easier? Could also be the case, didn't have a genesis.
@@Johnnythefirst I played on SNES and, like the mentioned in the video, it's super buggy with ledges missing and jumps that have a super small hit box. Didnt play far as a kid. Wasnt a fan of games where the difficulty outweighs the fun lol
@@BenSliwa Weird, never really noticed this as a kid. I could get across those hippos fairly easily. I was pretty handy with the Aladdin game as well, swinging from pole to pole. It's a zone you need to get into I think. :p
@@Johnnythefirst now Aladdin is a game I was all about!
I think a good AVGN would be him playing the Super Nintendo version of this game with James Earl Jones
i bet he would love that, idk how Jones is doing though, and its hard for him to do scripts.
Chris
I don’t know why that’s so funny 😆
He would play the Game Boy and NES versions, those suck
James Earl Jones lives in Pawling NY very close to me. I’ve even met him. Nice dude.
@@amso7169 if there was an NES Lion King that would no doubt be the chinese bootleg, as china bootlegged a lot for NES.
James in total disbelief:
"Wow there's more bad games out there..." lmao
i dont think he realizes sometimes how deep the pool was before he tried to wade it.
I bet he gets depressed every time he realizes the work of the Nerd will never be truly done
@@alexsilva28 nah, if anything i think his interest was piqued at that point in the video, besides James has fun being the nerd and entertaining his fans, its all he ever dreamed for.
To be fair James was a teen when The Lion King came out. I'm not surprised he had other interests at the time.
The game isn't bad, it's difficult. There's a difference. They designed it that way on purpose to warrant more rentals of it.
I remember wanting this game for Genesis back around 1995. My mother got it for me for Christmas. Christmas morning. I open it, excited to play it. I stick it in the Genesis, doesn't work. I looked at the metal connectors and most of them were missing. The game was bought from Target. My mother goes shopping that morning and returns the game, getting a replacement. She calls from the store (we didn't have cell phones back then, so she actually called from Target's electronic section) and says they don't have another copy of The Lion King, so she gives me some choices to choose from and one of them is Power Rangers: The Movie for Sega Genesis. I chose that one. She came home with that one and I played it. I was so happy The Lion King didn't work because this Power Rangers game is undoubtedly the best Power Rangers game ever made. It was absolutely wonderful.
Later on, the closest I came to playing The Lion King was at a cousin's house for his SNES. Didn't make it past the second stage as stated in this video.
God, I remember me and my friends playing the SNES version a lot back in the day. The Lion King was to the mid 90's what Frozen has been to the last 5 years or so. It was EVERYWHERE!!!
This was my alltime favorite game as a kid, I beat because I didn't have many games to play so I would just play this everyday, love it!
"Doesn't this drive you bananas?" Made me laugh a little too hard.
Yep. Nice pun. 😆
Mike, I am so in awe of your patience to play through some of these games. Respect!
9:04 I sense an AVGN review.
I sensed it as soon as the screen showed "don't play the SNES version"
AVGN would totally lose his shit playing the SNES port of beauty
I remember renting the Snes version a lot as a kid, and I could never get to Adult Simba. My experience with the second level and beyond were rough. It's refreshing seeing the game played with ease after so long.
I remember when my cousin and I rented this from blockbuster, we were shocked how hard this game was
That's precisely why this and other games were so hard, so you couldn't beat it in a weekend rental. Heard a couple of developers say that exact thing about the old games they worked on.
@stirange I agree
James' reaction to hearing James Earl Jones was adorable XD
Greetings from Argentina!I don't know how I could live so many years without this channel!
it came out also on PC. As a child i loved Lion King, i have finished whole game
My suggestion: Do an AVGN episode on a whole bunch of Disney games, including "Lion King", "Beauty and the Beast", and also "Fantasia" on Genesis!
The Mickey ones were also hard as f***, specially the one with Donald!!!
Woah, they talk about me. I was the 9 year old that beat it. This is one of my favorite games.
James...at 14:45, you were supposed to "duck-stand-stand, duck-duck-stand" 🤣🤣
*MMPR review flashbacks*
You mean the one that goes beep boo boo boo, boo boo beep?
I thought it was "stir-whip-stir-whip-whip-whip-stir"
This makes me really want an AVGN Lion King episode. This game and Toy Story were the bane of my childhood.
The quote at the end is hilarious. I was actually gonna say this is one of the only games I owned as a kid (on Sega) that I never beat. I could never get past all the hyenas in the second to last level.
The mind of a child is amazing - I beat the 2nd level when I was 10 and I remember specifically that it wasn't that hard, only minor problems to figure out that you have to roar at the monkeys. Now I think it's insane and I probably wouldn't have the patience.
3:52 Don't forget the Amiga version. With it's missing levels. Which I ended up with. . . 😪
Solvalou
If it misses the 2nd level then it’s probably not a bad thing
in general if you're playing the Amiga version of a game released in 1994 you're probably getting something inferior.
That’s Tuff
Solvalou Amiga!? You poor soul......
@@SavageGreywolf pretty sure the pal version didn't release until 1995 ;)
and seeing as amiga library is essentially nothing but pal, we can assume that was the date for everyone
I was that 9yr old, loved this game so much
Fun Fact: The Lion King was the highest grossing film of my birth year of 1994.
I am 2yrs younger to you
April 12th 1994 💯
@@wastedtalent666 6th September 96
Unfortunately, I was that 9 year old. This was the only game I got for my birthday that year. I played this game non-stop and did beat it on SNES. It's my claim to fame as a gamer.
I beat this game when I was a kid. Literally.
My friend and I saw a playthrough of this game here on youtube. It sounded like a little girl playing the game and when she would die she would shout and curse. We only saw it once and we have been trying to find it ever since. We still bring it up from time to time!
“How’s the Beauty and the Beast?”
Me: Which one? Belle’s Quest isn’t horrible, but Beast’s Adventure is nearly unplayable.
Gaston's Gang Bang was alright
Don't forget the NES and SNES ones, entirely different games.
You can use context to figure out it's probably the latter
What's Bell's quest.
So James was able to figure how to be decent at the giraffe level before Mike was finished explaining it to him. I remember in 1994 thinking I was so awesome cause now I was 10 years old. And then here comes my cousin with this game and he was like "you should let me do the stampede for you, you're not gonna beat it and you're gonna cry." So I did it myself and I lost and cried, lol.
Just want to be king level music plays
Me: *PTSD KICKS IN*
This was by far the hardest SNES game that I owned, and wish I had owned the Genesis version since that seems to be sort of a revision that ramps down the difficulty. I owned the official Player's Guide that I bought at the grocery store out of frustration after trying to beat level 2, which did help with that but I obviously still had to complete all of those jumps. Eventually I got to the level with all of the volcanoes but could never beat that one and gave up trying to beat the game. I was around 10/11 years old and it still haunts me.
I could never beat this damn game
I played the SNES version and the farthest I got was when you became Adult Simba and got my ass kicked by a hyena.
@@EricToTheScionti that's why the man who said that is great friends with Michael J Fox
Haha, don't blame you. It is hard asf
I beat it plenty of times when I was younger, and it really is quite tough. Probably couldn't do it now.
I remember there was a part late where you have to go through a bunch of caves as adult Simba and you're just dead if you don't have the route memorized. Most people know the roar at birds part since it's so early, but the adult stuff is so much harder.
Don't know what was tougher this one or Aladdin
One of my favourite parts of James & Mike Mondays is the random cuts to Mike playing a game and absolutely losing his shit!
This game had good animation for it's day.
The Genesis Disney games always looked better than the SNES counterparts, and I say that being more of an SNES guy.
Dr. Cogger McButtBrine They were probably developed with the Genesis in mind
Especially Alladin
@@esmooth919 indeed. Was kinda disappointed at the SNES one.
L-Y3T alladin was great on the snes
@@Usario321 Exactly! It was awesome to me!
I think the last fight was more than awesome ending enough!
The hardest game of my childhood.
Mine was The Adventures of Dizzy. Game was hard as fuck
^I tried but unfortunately i was not able to beat the game when i was younger
@@HLGxArceus I don't remember why, it's been hella years but I would get to the stage before Scar, with the lava. And just not be able to get past it.
Hours were spent on this game the second stage especially I never knew the Snes version was harder I feel robbed now lol
Nah, Alalddin was so much harder I don't understand why people keep focusing on this game's difficulty when there was clearly harder shit out there.
I'm going through a really shitty time right now and for some reason watching these videos and just knowing that James is out there getting to use his brilliant and creative mind and bring happiness to so many fans with his hilarious thoughts and observations makes me know that everything will be ok. I've been a fan right from the start and I can imagine it might start to feel like a drag to keep making theses videos, and it's your choice if you ever do elect to kill the nerd; but however you do feel about it your videos will always mean a lot to a shit ton of people :)
This was my most requested AVGN vids!
Yet never gotten though. Maybe this time you will!
Fun fact. On the top label of the cartridge they have the number for the Sega Hotline! They knew this game was hard!
Loved this game. Was an adventure to beat and re-beat, the Dark Souls of my childhood, where you just had to git gud
I played the hell out of this game on PC, no cheats. The hardest part was figuring out how to beat Scar without any help or reference. In 95 was friggin hard and only managed to do it once.
Glad to see this game has gotten a rerelease. A absolute classic.
there's a port on the switch with both lion king and aladdin
derek221122 that’s what I was referring to.
@@theboivenom4170 i picked that up recently although i haven't played it yet so i'm not sure which version is on there.
derek221122 they are both the sega genesis and game boy poets of the games
Every article I looked up told me the SNES version was superior, but I remembered this video when I bought the rerelease. None of the articles explained what Mike talking about. Id trust Mike more than the internet at this point.
James you need to do a avgn review on this game cause this was a rage inducing game
Loved this game on SNES when i was a kid...i got it for chritmas when i was 9 or 10...love this game
_"I beat this game when i was four!" - You_
No I didn't. I got stuck on that stupid lava geyser puzzle in level eight. Hell I only managed to get that far in my twenties XD
I beat this game when I was 4 months, you all soft
@Terry Jones I hear you, man. Too bad my
N/A SNES is broken, and I own a N/A copy of the game, so the cartridge physically won’t fit into my PAL SNES, so I can’t play it, today 😭.
Seeing that second level activated my PTSD. I beat that second level after 100 tries and some tantrums.
Forget the SNES version, it's the gameboy one you wanna stay away from!
13:30 AVGN Episode starts here!
Oh god he should use that if he ever does an episode on this game 😂
Huylo This game looks really interesting.. I may have to play the rerelease at some point.. Had Tarzan on ColecoVision at one time.. But later got the PSX remake
I remember playing this game on PC. It came in a three-pack along with Aladdin and The Jungle Book. All very hard games!
Yes, I was about to comment this. I played (and beat) on MS-DOS back in the day. The game is hard, but it's input (keyboard/lag/delay to response) it terrible. My version comes in disk (3 if I remember correctly), and it was a copy of a copy.
Sorry for my broken english, I'm Brazilian. =]
Olavo Sa nothing to be sorry about. You did admirably and your message was understandable. Well done.
@@lordofswarm538 Thank you! Have a nice day! o/
Game: The King has returned.
James: The King says fuck you.
James, you never fail to crack me up.
I never had any problems going through the second level when I was a kid.
Congratulations are in order, I guess.
I was one of those 9 year olds that beat this game. One of the very very few games that I have beaten in my life actually haha.
"hows beauty and the beast?"
"beauty and the beast?! omg it's the worst!"
"oh.....
........
......
................
.........................we should play it."
god dam it james i love you lol
I do remember the SNES version had a dedicated button for throwing (needed to defeat Scar), whereas on the regular Genesis controller it was a button combo of some kind that was harder to execute, which made the final boss battle on SNES WAY easier.
Edit: Mike explains this at the end.
The Snes version is far superior!
cescar sabbath Only in terms of graphics gameplay wise it isn't.
@@matthewford3447 The people who complain about the difficulty are the ones who made life automatically regenerate today.
We need a "Disney Sega Genesis" and "Disney Super Nintendo" AVGN episode!
I want the AVGN to have to play all the Disney games on both systems in an upcoming episode! He'll be...ANGRY!
I was that shitty kid. I would t to “speed run” it as a kid and I was pretty fast at it 🤷🏻♂️ haha
OMFG I had this game on SNES as a kid and never got passed the second level.
Played the sega version. That one was hard enough. Never beat it. Aladdin was the best
i beat the SNES version on Hard, thats when it gets ruthless.
Hi, i'm the subscriber from Korea. When i was a kid, i used to play this game on pc. This game was so fxxkin hard that i had to use cheat code. Using the code didn't help me neither, the lion Simba was still an easy prey(5 hit to death...) to Scar and other predators. Anyway thanks to Cinemassacare and Mr Matei for showing hardworking!
AVGN teased Beauty and The Beast in How The Nerd Stole Christmas
i love how in avgn christmas special he mentions beauty and the beast as a bad game but as a person he doesnt seem to know about it XD
Guys, this game was packaged with the Genesis for some time. I got it for Christmas at about 9-10 years old. I beat the game pretty easily. I never found the monkey to be that hard. To me the hardest part was solving the puzzle (which monkeys to growl at).
Im not claiming to be special. (I have ZERO chance to beat ghosts n goblins or TMNT) but this particular game is never really gave me any problems. It's weird how different people have different experiences with the same game
I've got the bundle for my 7th birthday. Wasn't that hard either. And once you've learned the patterns…
But it was great fun and atmospheric at the end.
the reason James had such a disconnection with TLK is because he was a heck of lot older when this film came out- unlike most of his fan base which grew up with the series
F**k this game, I've been trying to beat it on SNES for 23 years. So freaking hard!
The Gorilla in Hakuna Matata was the roadblock for me, mainly because one guide made me think rolling the coconuts back at him was the only way to beat him, when in fact all you had do was dodge the coconuts and jump on him when he pounds the ground.
This reminds me of the Toy Story game on Genesis where you have to use Woody's pull string to swing on hooks in many stages. Difficulty aside, these games incorporate scenes from the movies quite well
Ugh, I never liked that game and while I understand why people praise it, as it did look awesome especially for the 16bit era and did the license justice...It just rubbed me the wrong way and I could never get into it.
My friends house burnt down with my copy of toy story in it. Any time someone mentions toy story I remember how much that sucked. For me. Their new house the insurance money bought them was way nicer.
I was that 9 year old, who beat it on the snes version!!! Born in 85 and back in the day you didnt have many games to play (either that or Mario's time machine)...
I never really had trouble with the second level when I was a kid and I was playing the snes version as well. Then again these are the same guys who were having trouble with Donkey Kong as well
KawaiiPewPew Everyone has their own things they find difficult, my dude.
10:00 ”I’ve never seen that happen.” Me neither 😮.
Pretty sweet to catch it on video.