box cover | Game title: | The Lion King | Platform: | MS-DOS | Author (released): | Virgin Interactive (1994) | Genre: | Action, Platform | Mode: | Single-player | Design: | Louis Castle, Seth Mendelsohn, Barry Green, ... | Music: | Matt Furniss, Frank Klepacki, Dwight Okahara, ... | Game manual: | manual.pdf | File size: | 437 kB | Download: | not available (stream only) | Game size: | 3219 kB | Recommended emulator: | DOSBox | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: | The Lion King is a video game based on Disney's popular animated film. The title was published by Virgin Interactive in 1994, and was released on SNES, NES, Game Boy, PC, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Master System and Game Gear. The NES and Master System versions of the game were never released in North America because this is the final game for the former system released in Europe. A PlayStation launch title was going to be released in Japan but was cancelled for unknown reasons. The game follows Simba's journey from a young carefree cub to the battle with his evil uncle Scar as an adult. The game is a side-scrolling platform game, with the controlled character having to leap, climb, run and descend from platform to platform. There is an exception during the level The Stampede, where Simba is running towards (or in the Game Boy version, running with the camera looking straight down on top of him, while the Game Gear version is a side scrolling platformer like the other stages) the camera dodging wildebeest and leaping over rocks. In most versions of the game two bars appear on the HUD. To the left is the roar meter, which must be fully charged for Simba's roar to be effective. To the right is the health bar which decreases when Simba is hurt. At the bottom left of the screen is a counter showing how many lives Simba has remaining. Bugs of various shapes and sizes can be collected, restoring health or granting bonuses. Some rare health-damaging bugs also exist. The player controls Simba (first as a cub, then later as an adult) in the main levels and either Timon or Pumbaa in the bonus levels. More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.org. | For fans and collectors: | Find this game on video server YouTube.com or Vimeo.com. | Buy original version of this game on Amazon.com or eBay.com. | Find digital download of this game on GOGorSteam. | Platform: | This version of The Lion King was designed for personal computers with operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), which was operating system developed by Microsoft in 1981. It was the most widely-used operating system in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS was supplied with most of the IBM computers that purchased a license from Microsoft. After 1995, it was pushed out by a graphically more advanced system - Windows and its development was ceased in 2000. At the time of its greatest fame, several thousand games designed specifically for computers with this system were created. Today, its development is no longer continue and for emulation the free DOSBox emulator is most often used. More information about MS-DOS operating system can be found here. | Available online emulators: | 5 different online emulators are available for The Lion King. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game The Lion King are summarized in the following table:
| Emulator | Technology | Multiplayer | Fullscreen | Touchscreen | Speed | Archive.org | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | fast | js-dos | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | js-dos 6.22 | JavaScript | YES | YES | NO | fast | jsDosBox | JavaScript | YES | NO | NO | slow | jDosBox | Java applet | YES | YES | NO | fast |
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