Developer - Virgin Games   Catalogue No. - T-70083

Type - Platform Action

We all know that the Super Famicom / Super Nintendo version of The Lion King wins hands down thanks to it's amazing soundtrack and much better colour pallet and those who disagree are blind fanboy fools.  Anyway, how good is the Mega Drive version?  Well the great news is that it still looks fantastic in the animation department even if the backgrounds are a little more basic looking compared to the SFC / SNES version.  Mega Drive Lion King also plays extremely well.  Simba young and adult versions control ever so well going where you put them with pin point accuracy.  The only real downer is the audio.  While the Mega Drive tries hard and actually does a decent job at replicating the movies musical scores it does come over as a bit, err..... cheap unlike the musical score in Aladdin which blew away Capcom's poor effort on the SFC / SNES.

Although I'm comparing this to the SFC / SNES version I can honestly say as a Mega Drive platformer you can't get much better.  Addictive, challenging (if not a little too hard in places) game that you really should consider adding to your collection.