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Embrace your adventurous inner child with The Lion King, Aladdin, and The Jungle Book!

Good stories never fall out of style. And if someone knows how to tell a proper fairytale, that's got to be Disney. Today, three of their most celebrated, charming platformers of yore based on such tales are coming back, exclusively on GOG.com. Disney Aladdin, Disney The Lion King, and Disney The Jungle Book are all household names that still captivate our imagination, decades after we got introduced to their cinematic and videogame worlds.

That's why GOG.com and Disney heave teamed up to bring these beloved classics of the 16-bit era to a new generation of gamers and Disney fans. All three titles have been meticulously updated to be compatible with modern operating systems while preserving the original graphics, sound, and gameplay.

Developed during the golden age of platformers, Disney Aladdin, Disney The Lion King, and Disney The Jungle Book established themselves as hallmarks of the genre, earning the praise of fans and critics alike for over two decades. That was due in no small part to their groundbreaking visuals. With the advent of Digicel technology, hand-drawn cels from Disney's animation team brought the characters to life with a level of vibrancy that was unparalleled at the time, and remains impressive today. Just look at how adorable little Simba looks when he roars at his enemies!

Return to these beautiful worlds, full of that unmistakable Disney charm and wondrous sense of adventure. <span class="bold">Disney Aladdin</span>, <span class="bold">Disney The Lion King</span>, and <span class="bold">Disney The Jungle Book</span> are available now, DRM-free on GOG.com and you can get them for 10% off individually, or for 33% off as a <span class="bold">bundle</span> of heartwarming joy until August 8, 12:59 PM UTC!


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Post edited August 04, 2016 by maladr0Id
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haydenaurion: Edit: Is avatar changing still bugged? It's still not showing my correct avatar pic when I change it. Still shows the old one. :/
Yes..

"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."
Post edited September 25, 2016 by almabrds
Oh man, this brings back memories!

Remember never coming far in Aladdin...

I think I remember playing (or at least seeing other people play) Lion King, but I didn't know about The Jungle Book game.

Glad they're here now!
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€10 would be a fair price for all these three together, but individually? You must be taking the piss.
Wow! They are truly "most treasured" if you ask for 10€ per game. 6-10€ for all three, would be more realistic. At least for me. Don't like platformers very much xD
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You could just go and play them all on Kega Fusion and ZSNES right now.

Would probably take you less time to download the ROMsets than it did to type that list.
Post edited August 04, 2016 by Antoni_Fox
What the?!!!
Gog keeps suprising me.
Insta wishlisted and maybe instabuy as well.
Need to check how much money i have in my bank after vacation first.

Also
a question
Does it have gamepad support of any sort?
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Lodium: Does it have gamepad support of any sort?
I just plugged in my Logitech F310 and it works perfectly. Dosbox has never had any issues with gamepad/joystick support for me.
Well, despite the absolutely fucking ridiculous pricing, I bit the bullet and bought all three, and €6.66 a piece is still a touch high but bearable.

Seems all three versions are the DOS versions.

Just played Aladdin and The Lion King for now - had both of them for the Amiga. In fact, I believe The Lion King was one of the last games that I bought for the Amiga before I switched to PC gaming.

Aladdin works fine. Runs reasonably smoothly, around 30fps I believe, par for the course with late-era DOS titles, including the oversized HUD that was commonplace with ports from consoles (the Mega Drive version had the game fill the entire screen with the HUD overlaid on it, the DOS and Amiga versions kept the HUD separate from the game window).

But, fuck me, the Lion King doesn't half run juddery. I still have my Windows copy of the game, which I remember ran as buttery-smooth as the Amiga version on my own Win 98 PC, but unfortunately cannot be made to run at all on modern PCs. Even by 1994 standards, the DOS version of the game runs like an absolute dog.

And yes, all three games work fine with gamepad.
Post edited August 04, 2016 by jamyskis
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ShadowAngel.207: most-treasured? Lion King is "treasured"? Is that a joke? The game is mediocre at best..
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marsilies: It's all a matter of opinion. Some people may have fond memories of these games simply because they owned and played them a lot, not necessarily because of how they stack up to other games.

As for the other games you mentioned, Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion and The Lucky Dime Caper, none of those had DOS ports originally, so are unlikely to show up on GOG. Castle of Illusion did get remade in 2013 for PC, so the remake may show up eventually.
Yep - the people who treasure games that are ultimately mediocre are usually looking through rose-tinted nostalgia goggles. Look for a gameplay video of the most random generic DOS game and you'll see people saying "my childhood" etc. and extolling the virtues of some incredibly bland looking game. In this case I think the games in question are actually decent (not fantastic) platformers, with their main selling points being the color and animation. Still, $10 a pop for the worst versions of several of these games seems very optimistic, but I guess if Activision can sell a 10 year old ARPG for $30/40, anything is possible.
Excellent additions to the library, but a little pricey.
In any case, thanks for getting these!
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marsilies: It's all a matter of opinion. Some people may have fond memories of these games simply because they owned and played them a lot, not necessarily because of how they stack up to other games.

As for the other games you mentioned, Castle of Illusion, World of Illusion and The Lucky Dime Caper, none of those had DOS ports originally, so are unlikely to show up on GOG. Castle of Illusion did get remade in 2013 for PC, so the remake may show up eventually.
There are also a shedload of PS1-era Disney titles that many people have similarly fond memories of. Not necessarily gaming classics for the ages, but good, wholesome, family-friendly, platforming entertainment, the game that Disney's gaming adaptations were famed for being before they became dumbed-down collections of mini-games that struggled to keep the attention of anyone except pre-school toddlers.

So it's likely we'll see Toy Story 1 & 2, Hercules, Tarzan, Donald Duck: Quack Attack, The Emperor's New Groove, Aladdin: Nasira's Revenge and A Bug's Life.
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yellowblanka: "Meticulously restored" lol, eg. they toss the files into an installer with an old version of DOSBox with a default config that will invariably require some tweaking. Don't get me wrong, It's great that older titles are starting to trickle in, but judging from the forums/issues with various games (usually Windows titles) they seem to do little/no work in ensuring compatibility beyond "does it boot up? Yep....well, time to upload it".

It probably has something to do with the expense of securing the license from Disney.
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nate1222: I noticed something similar with the Neo Geo 25th Anniversary games (Humble Store DRM-free). They all run via emulation. I even tested it: the zipped roms can be copied and played via the WinKawaks emulator.

Nonetheless, having DRM-free versions of Garou: Mark of the Wolves, King of Fighters 2002, Blazing star, Shock Troopers, Sengoku, etc...on Linux is awesome. So I ain't gonna b!+c# about it.
Oh yeah. I mean emulation is inevitable for these older systems as tracking down the source code for old neo-geo and DOS games is likely nigh impossible and would be very expensive, as would porting that code to newer OS/Hardware configurations, I'm more annoyed when they claim something is "meticulously remastered" which would imply new content/higher resolutions/better quality animation etc. when all they've done is thrown the game files into a setup archive with their default DOSBox config like they do for nearly every other game on here.
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koima57: Hmm... From my experience with them on the Megadrive (Genesis), taken in comparison with the indeed great Aladdin. The Jungle Book, was a bad game and the Lion King, a very average Disney game. Maybe I will pick Aladdin on sale someday. Not a truthful statement to call them 3 "treasured, charming" and all that much praise, GOG cast. Come back down to Earth! ^^
It's marketing, appeal to the nostalgia of the people that played these games as a kid. Of course I played plenty of games as a kid that I thought were pretty good that I now recognize were mediocre/crap but I didn't know any better/they were what I had access to.
Post edited August 05, 2016 by yellowblanka
I hope the next surprise from Disney is Tron 2.0
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Impaler26: Has anyone played these games on PC? I wanna know if they are the same as the SNES/Mega Drive versions and if they have any pros/cons over the console versions.
Same question here, only played the Mega Drive versions
12AUD each?
Eh... thanks but no thanks.

When coming off the heels of cheap Bundlestars/Amazon complete megadrive collection packs for a few dollars each, this is pretty offputting.

If these were a handful of bucks for the lot than I might have decided to bite, but not at all currently.