In 1994, Westwood — they of Command & Conquer fame — released a platforming adaptation of The Lion King. It was pretty great! Westwood had no part in the bootleg Chinese version of the game, though, which added a few extra scenes.
Lion King 5, for the Famicom, is like many other Chinese games of the time in that it’s a crude (yet awesome) copy of the source material, crammed with extra coding onto a platform it was never originally released for.
And I mean crude. I’ve seen The Lion King more than once, and I don’t remember a scene where Simba hangs himself. It’s a dark movie, but not that dark.
Pirated Lion King NES game features gruesome deaths [Go Nintendo]
Tunblor
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 11:42 AMI’ll just leave this here…
http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
Paullo
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 12:24 PMPeople bring that up quite often, but the two are only very superficially similar. I would suggest that The Lion King’s greatest strengths are it’s story, script, music and animation, all of which are wildly different to Kimba.
On topic: I dunno whether that’s Chinese black humor or something, but it’s hella disturbing either way.