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Aladdin (Gameboy Color)
- Thread starter Strifel
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My younger brother had this and I would play it all the time. The animation quality was absurd for a Game Boy Color game.
YouTube doesn't do it justice but it looks really nice IRL.
YouTube doesn't do it justice but it looks really nice IRL.
Basically the Genesis version with lots of redrawn stuff to suit the GameBoy Color pallete and resolution.
It's the version Disney "likes," (their animators worked on it, has the movie's music, etc,) so it's the one that got chosen for a very late port lol. They didn't have to bug Capcom for their SNES version, either!
The Game Boy Color version is actually something of an enhanced port of the original Game Boy version, which itself was a handheld recreation of the Genesis version. An up port of a down port, so to speak. The GBC version has much better animation, the stages have a bunch of newly drawn background assets, the framerate is improved, and the game controls much more smoothly.
The North American boxart for the game claims that the game supports the GBC IR feature, but there's nothing in game that uses it. It more than likely was going to have UbiKey support at some point; UbiKey was a neat little thing where there'd be a hidden Ubisoft Key stashed away somewhere in Ubisoft GBC games; If you found it and transferred it to another Ubisoft GBC game via the IR port, it'd unlock secrets, sometimes as small as bonus mini-games to entire secret levels.
The North American boxart for the game claims that the game supports the GBC IR feature, but there's nothing in game that uses it. It more than likely was going to have UbiKey support at some point; UbiKey was a neat little thing where there'd be a hidden Ubisoft Key stashed away somewhere in Ubisoft GBC games; If you found it and transferred it to another Ubisoft GBC game via the IR port, it'd unlock secrets, sometimes as small as bonus mini-games to entire secret levels.
When the original console versions came out, Capcom still had the Disney license for Nintendo platforms (at least in the U.S.). For other platforms Disney retained the rights and farmed it out to Virgin. By 1995 Capcom's Disney license had run out, so Disney and Virgin were able to release their version on the Game Boy.
Hah, same. I opened it and started laughing, because when I saw the title, I immediately said to myself "oh what the fuck are we gonna have in here" And then the warning, LOL
I thought the mods hated Aladdin on Game Boy, HAH! Cracking myself up.
Aladdin on Game Boy, the mods, "Oh no you fuckin do not!"
It is now but I'm fairly sure back in the release period the genesis was higher regarded probably due to the sword combat and "real disney animation." I still think the genesis was better and there's some form of revisionist history that's occurred over the last two decades but I digress.
Ty for this info. Nice piece of history especially when you know how "which is the best 16 bits version" debate is.
I wasn't even aware there was a Game Boy Color version of Aladdin. I wonder what a game based on the TV show -- something like Nasira's Revenge aside, I suppose -- would've been like.
Was it this one or Game Gear with the surprisingly good 3D rooftop effect?
Edit: The bump is stranger than the OP. Were you looking back into the pages of abandoned gaming topics or searching for Game Boy Aladdin?
Edit: The bump is stranger than the OP. Were you looking back into the pages of abandoned gaming topics or searching for Game Boy Aladdin?
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Subjective to what kind of game you liked really. The SNES one felt more like Prince of Persia or a slower paced Pitfall:The Mayan Adventure while Genesis was closer to Earthworm Jim or both ports of Lion King/ The Jungle Book in terms of flow.
I can't speak for every playground, but at my school, the Genesis version was absolutely considered superior. And my school was primarily ruled by the SNES kids.
The gameplay of the snes one is better but it's an absurdly easy game. I prefer the megadrive one personally, esp the new final cut version.
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