Screw Attack's Video Game Vault peeks back at the games we enjoyed as cubs. Most of the commentary on their video game recollections doesn't go beyond "This game was AWESOME!" or "This game sucked!" It's hard to fault them for it, since we all have a tendency to do the very same.
Their latest retrospective, which looks at the Lion King game for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo, is another "omg this game was rad in ever-y way!!" moment. Maybe they're thinking of another game in a parallel dimension or something because I remember a gamethat was exceptionally well done in some areas and finger-breakingly frustrating in others.
For starters, I have a shaky history with The Lion King. I know chunks of the movie are lifted from Osamu Tezuka's Kimba the White Lion (The Simpsons acknowledges the very same in the episode "'Round Springfield," with the famous ghost-delivered line, "You must avenge my death, Kimba--dah, I mean, Simba.") and that Disney's subsequent denial of Osamu Tezuka's existance is the worst thing the company has ever done outside of Walt gassing Jewish children in Space Mountain (disclaimer: Walt probably never gassed children).
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