

Find Genie’s floating face, and you’ll be able to play a basic roulette game after the level for some extra gems, apples or lives. They’re not this game’s only collectables, though.
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In most levels, the merchant character from the movie (the one that’s heavily implied to be Genie) can be found selling extra lives and continues for those collectable gems. But, in the Mega Drive version, the gems serve more of a purpose than just scoring points. The player uses the apples as projectiles in both games, although only in this version can they defeat larger enemies. Throughout both versions of the game, Aladdin can pick up gems and apples. He tries and fails to escape the now-falling-apart Cave of Wonders, meets the Genie and then returns to the Sultan’s palace to stop Jafar’s wicked plans. Aladdin escapes from the dungeon and is taken by Jafar to the Cave of Wonders to find the lamp.

The rest of the game more or less lines up with the SNES version from here on out. Something also achieved by returning to Agrabah for level 3 – although this one plays quite differently to the first. Upon collecting both halves, then Aladdin is captured and sent to the Sultan’s dungeon.Įffectively, this is done to find an excuse to add the game’s desert level and extend its overall length. Instead, a disguised Jafar tasks him with finding the two halves of the magical scarab we see him with at the start of the movie. Here, Aladdin is not captured on the streets of Agrabah while saving Jasmine. This version of the game plays things a little bit looser when it comes to sticking to the plot of the movie. So what are they? Which version of Aladdin really is the best? Let’s finally settle it once and for all. It’s the differences, though, that keeps the Internet flame war alive. The two even feature entirely original desert-themed levels as their only non-movie settings. There’s a bonus item slot machine accessible between levels in both games. They mostly share the same set pieces as levels. The film’s plot is told through basic cut-scenes in each game, in-between levels based off of key moments from the movie.Īs both games are adaptations, they obviously share quite a lot in common. No matter which version you are playing, the game is a relatively faithful adaptation of the animated Disney movie.
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Coincidentally, both men would subsequently – as their very next projects – go on to create the two series they’re both most well known for respectively: Earthworm Jim and Resident Evil. The SNES game, meanwhile, was developed by Capcom under Shinji Mikami.

Or should that be two of its best?Īlthough an Aladdin game was released on both the SEGA Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo at around the same time, they were developed entirely separately.įor SEGA, Virgin Games’ David Perry led the development on his last game for the company following a prolific career there. Of all the games we’ll ever cover in this feature series, none will have captured the attention of the Internet quite as much as this one has.Īladdin isn’t just considered one of Disney’s best animated movies, but also one of its best video games.
