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.

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

"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"

There’s a special button combo at the end of the game that’s required to beat the game. Unless you read the owner’s manual there’s no in game indication this move even exists.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is bringing back some mild PTSD

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 😂

I remember playing this on a pc more than 2 decades ago I recall reaching the Scar level, but not whether I beat it or not (probably not). Was a fun watch. Thank you for bringing me down memory lane I love how timeless the video is btw. 3+ years old and just as good a watch as it would've been when it came out

As a kid, I got this game on the Genesis, years later when it was (and probably still is) on the xbox live market place, I picked up the the packaged deal that include LK and Aladdin with their previous ports. I'm no speedrunner, but those games were hard af back then for those of us who just banged our heads at a wall trying to get through certain levels. Still hella fun to this day.

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.

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.

I can actually say that I beat Aladdin and The Lion King both for the Sega Genesis back in the day.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

Imagining doing this without KZfaq or the internet.

As a kid I never realized how much pride I would have in beating this game the older I got. I only played the snes version so I’m not sure how it compares to genesis version but hot damn. This game was downright diabolical. The fact I had to figure out how to throw scar at the end with no instructions on how to throw still baffles me to this day lol that’s pounce combo came in clutch.

That Guatanimo shit was hilarious! I fucking snorted 🤪🤣🍻

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

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......"

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

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.

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...

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

@ 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.

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.

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 💯😂☠️

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”

Outstanding video. Perfect hit of nostalgia

Simba at the end, "THIS IS MA HOUSE, TIGGA"!

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

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

As someone who was in the blockbuster video challenge… i’ve never seen that running from the heard scene… also mom wasn’t about to rent a game again that was frustrating me at that age

had a fantastic experience with disney games for the sega genesis back in the day, and it was no different with lion king. No one complained about its difficulty and I remember beating the game the first time I rented it.

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

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.

This game and battletoads in battlemaniacs made me go crazy

I beat the Genesis version a few times as a kid. There were definitely tough parts like the waterfall in Hakuna Matata, but I also cut my teeth on the Atari 2600 which had some of the most difficult and cryptic games.

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

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.

22:14 Loius Castle, the torturer 😂

This game was so hard back in the day. I never beat it as a kid. Even as an adult it was very hard to get through and I had to look up how to beat scar at the end.

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.

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

I’m very nearly beaten this game. Got to the last level versus scar. I just didn’t know you needed to be at the edge of the platform and do a special button combination to flip him off of pride rock. But yeah, it’s a pretty crazy game.

I never got past the ostritch part on level two. The 12" tv from the 80's I played this on never let me see what was going on once the arrows disappeared.

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.

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

Furthest I ever got was Hakuna Matata, and lost my last life at the waterfall with the falling logs. I think that was the last time I ever played it. The patience and mental duress learning the game to get to that point without speedrun strats like floor skips was bonkers. Like, even Rocky would have trouble gettin' back in it after that kind of setback. The people who have actually beaten this game are terrifying, and deserve some type evaluation because they hold the mental power to alter the course of the world for either good or ill if left to their own devices, and I fear which way they lean after the experience of this game.

Dude I remember renting Star Wars Empire Strikes back at Blockbuster one time. And some legend wrote the cheat codes on the inside of the blockbuster paper that was inserted between the case and the plastic cover. I remember having unlimited force powers and being so stoked. The Star Wars games were hard as hell too

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

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...

im going to be 40 this year, I passed this game many times as a kid, and Alladin, Pitfall etc loved all those classics, hardest game i remember was ghostbusters for the sega master system

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 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.

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.

I rented this game so many times as a kid. I think this is why when I first tried demon souls, I noped out until many years later when I got hooked on bloodborne.

Lion King. Aladdin and Ren and Stimpy: Veediots were the bane of my existence growing up playing games on the SNES. I could never ever beat them. I got maybe as far as the second or third stage on any of them before I gave up, lol.

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

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

you know Barry Green also programed all the command & conquers... red alert, tiberian sun ETC... legend!

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

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.

Man this bring back memories, I use to own this game and would play it day and night trying to beat it, I remember this took me about a month I'm talking when there didnt use to be guides online or any type of information to be able to beat this type of game, This game and FFVII were the hardest game for me back when i was younger.

I never made it past the buffalo stage. On another note I've had plenty of frustrating games back in the day. I remember playing Suikoden 2 on PS. Ended up printing out a 200page walkthrough to try to beat the game, but even following every exact step in the walkthrough I could not beat the final boss. Still waiting for the Suikoden 1 & 2 remaster to come out for PS5 so I can have another go at it 30 years later lol

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

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

You can also show the speed run for Contra III: The Alien Wars/Super Probotector: Alien Rebels or Mega Man X parts. That are also realy hard to finish.

The boulder follows you the entire time. So you cannot stop very long.

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.

"As soon as they found out his previous work they hired him right there on the spot" Made my day! :D

I had a friend who owned this and he even got to the level with the fire with adult Simba I don't remember him beating it. I myself only ever got to the stage with the swinging animal tails where I was constantly dying to the water. This game was hard as balls.

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.

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

I remember that Hakuna Matata level kicking my ass as a kid. Those waterfall logs were torturous. It felt so rewarding to finally play as adult simba after that