Asmongold MIND BLOWN By SPEEDRUN of The Lion King (SNES) - A Game Harder Than Dark Souls 

Idk if he mentions it but, the reason the game is hard is because no matter how far you get, if you run out of lives YOU GET SENT BACK TO LEVEL ONE.

"Whether they've played it or not, most gamers know that The Lion King is hard, but what most people don't know is that the developers made the game extremely difficult on purpose. Disney actually told the developers to make the game so difficult that people wouldn't be able to beat it during a rental period"

There was only 2 levels. Everything after that is a mystery. First level was doable, but I never learned the monkey throwing stuff, and gave up.

Yes. If you never played Lion King, you don’t realize how insane this video is.

Me and my friend were convinced this game was broken. "The monkeys dont work"

this game was ridicolously hard and I managed to put it in the back of my mind for 25 years. thank you for triggering some good old ptsd i love this

6:45 - I got this far but never got past it. This level made me just as frustrated as the battletoads level with the speeders

I never passed the second level on Super Nintendo back in the 90s. This speed run is nuts.

"You have to have a PhD to beat this game." "This game is what kept Blockbuster in business because you had to keep renting it." LOL I'm dead.

That giraffe level is the cause of my anxiety and trust issues lmao

I like how the ending credits plays the Can You Feel the Love Tonight song, which implies that once Simba took over, he immediately went to work knocking boots.

The second level is the one where people can't get past because it's complicated and you got to know which monkeys to turn. My brother taught me you could do that and we eventually figured it out. The latest I can remember is those stumps on the waterfall. Anything past that I think we always died

As a 90’s kid I can confirm that this was and still is the hardest game I’ve ever played, never made it to adult* Simba.

I remember beating this game after playing it for years I literally cried and never again attempted to beat this game again

This game is such a blast back. The ostrich jumping was the biggest block of the game in my opinion. After that, the game was so so enjoyable. A platformer game done perfect. I've gotten to the point of grown up Simba and left the save there cause it was my favorite part of the game.

I had no idea that Westwood Studios, from the famous Command and Conquer series. made the Lion king SNES game, It even has frank Klepaki in the sound department !!!! looking at the credits

I seriously don’t remember beating the giraffe part either. I don’t think I realized you could roar the monkeys to change them.

As a kid i did not even believe that you could play as grown up Simba in this game.

@ 14:43 he gets from the start to the end of the level with that glitch. I had this on the genesis and managed to finish it after tens of tries and having a friend of mine beside me. Pausing the game often -like very very often - especially in the monkey and the "3d" level, to see what's next, was crucial.

Think about this: Westwood Studios, the company that made The Lion King, also made the Command and Conquer series.

This is bringing back some mild PTSD

Every jump in this game is a blind skill shot that you have to learn, then memorize in order. They would never make a game like today, this even as a troll move.

It's like terminator 2 on gameboy, you had to destroy weird defense tower IN A PRECISE ORDER to finally finish it, it stayed 3 years blocked on the 4 first minutes of the game...

This one was one of my fav game as a kid. I beat the game once. Took me forever too. I spent the longest trying to find out how to toss scar off the ciff at the end. Scar could not die. You had to toss him over....

Had it for genesis. This brought back so many memories...even the “it starts” at the beginning stands out....cuz I had to replay that shit like a thousand times 😂

I played this game as a kid, and it took me a year to figure out the monkey level. I figured it out by riding my bike to the library. They had the first "internet access" in my rural community, 14.4k dial-up internet, and advertised it at school that you could use "Ask Jeeves" to ask computers questions that books didn't have the answer to! I asked it how to beat this level and the only thing I could find was on an old text-based forum of someone saying "roar at pink monkey" but never said the order or anything. That took a year of trial and error until I finally figured out you could backtrack over that hippo pit and go back to the first tree with the monkeys. I don't think I got any further than that until Game Genie was under the Christmas Tree one morning. That thing forever changed my video game life. lol

Beat this game. Owned it. Parents bought it for my sister. We soon found out it’s one of the hardest games ever made. Took months to beat this game. The stampede level is one of the hardest levels in the gaming if you actually try to avoid the buffalos and rocks. It’s up there with the Battletoads level.

I remember the stampede stage and the level after it, I don't recall ever making it further than that. This game was stupid hard. Battle Toads on the NES is another game I remember being really hard as a child, although part of that is probably always playing it co-op and degenerating into smashing the crap out of each other and rarely making it past stage 2!

This game was ridiculous . Had it on Sega. It still haunts me .

When I was 13 I rented this for 3 weekends straight. Had to use pen and paper, but I finally beat the giraffe level in the 3rd weekend. After that I considered myself done and never touched this game again until much, much later. Then I got stuck in the waterfall in Hakuna Matata.

Lion King Game Producer: You made the last boss super hard, because we don't have an ending cinematic, right? Lion King Game Dev: Um...I thought you said second level.

I don’t know why people keep saying that this game is hard! It is certainly above average but is not comparable to games like Battletoads!

When I was a kid I played Lion King, Aladdin, Earthworm Jim and Battletoads non stop on Sega Genesis and I had the whole game muscle memorized. Looking back on it now they were so ahead of their time. As much as I loved these games nothing will ever compare to all the Donkey Kong country games. I still play those with my wife to this day.

This video made my week. He is 100% spot on, hardest game ever. I played the shit out of this game and never got to the stampede level hahahaha!

14:32 WOW he just cut past all the worst parts in the game

My experience when this game came out was the most popular game of Street fighter for most players were teenagers like myself and I beat this game and I remember most little kids couldn't get past the first level

Imagining doing this without RU-vid or the internet.

Haha, watching chats reaction to the "I just can't wait to be king" level is hilarious. I thought I was the only one that was traumatized by this game.

Different horse different race. This game is a casual romp for me. Dark Souls Remastered was the first souls game I ever beat and it was very, very difficult for me.

I was never able to get past the stampede section, so it was really cool having the opportunity to check it out.

asmongold " i cant believe someone memorized this whole game" also asmongold " this is the burning sword of everlasting fire from the dlc of the long long far ago only released to those possessing the chains of endearing hardships......"

17:23 "Wait is he AOE farming them?" xD

Seeing this makes all the "failures," steps, as a kid to eventually beat it so much more rewarding.

17:30 my wife when I come back home after getting a drink with my friends

I never watched a single stream of this guy, but seeing him watching this speed run and pointing all the stuff in the game just made it 10x better...

Dam, I remember being stuck at the giraffe head level. One of the games I played the least but remember the most.

I got stuck at Hakuna Matata as a kid and it took me years to get beyond that and beat the game. The waterfall was what got me.

I don't remember you had to beat the hienas to progress in that level, it is meant to be a laberynth and you have to know which cave to take. But if you pay attention all hienas are stunned in the last level, so I think he takes advantage of them being all super quick to beat in the previous level to get them to be stunned in the last one and focus on the platforming

All I remember is having nightmares about purple monkeys throwing me around in a circle. I can honestly say I have never seen anything after. My motivation to complete the game tarnished after hours and days. Luckily, many more hopes and dreams followed and now I have alcohol to put me to rest. God bless all.

This game was hard AF, but the one that got me and my entire family was THE LITTLE MERMAID! Fml when my sister managed to beat it I'm pretty sure we all were there watching having an after party 💯😂☠️

13:07 Lol I struggled so much to get simba to preform that UFC move but I never could figure 😂

I remember beating this game as a kid and that 2nd level always ducked me up

"this game is what kept blockbuster in business." Ha ha ha!!!!!

Its such a beautiful game with such great graphics and it's a shame almost noone saw the cool graphics bc we couldn't even beat the 1st level

Aladdin is insanely easy compared to Lion King!

"Try Alladin on a 386 with VGA monitor where there's a boulder comming out of you and you're escaping from the cave and you cannot see the holes in the ground and you have to precisely jump at a moment otherwise you will fall in the hole. At least in this game you see everything, there you see only your character running and the boulder behind you and nothing else, you have to remember all your path and all the times you have to jump to avoid the holes." (on VGA black/white monitor you couldn't see the holes in the ground, you need at least SVGA monitor to be able to see those holes).

I remember playing this game as a kid and just grinding HOURS trying to beat this shit. When I finally did, I felt something akin to joy, but it was really a sense of “fuck this game, but it was fun”

I finished this game, looking back, no clue how. Hardest part was that one freaking double jump in level 2.

There was a Gameboy version that came out at a later stage. We had that. Never got past the canyon chase scene as a kid. Don't remember playing as adult Simba at least...

The giraffe head level of this and the car level on the toy story game were the most difficult gaming experiences of all time.

That was Westwood Studios .. I worked for them in the late 80's

"Is he AOE farming them?" cracked me up 🤣🤣

Such a good game, I reached Scar when I first played it, but never realized I could throw him, got super frustrated and quit. Only a couple of years ago I realized you need to throw him (and learned how to throw him) so I finished it lol. I played it on MsDOS, and actually lots of games had some type of trick right at the end so I never finished most of them (looking at you Prince of Persia and your invisible platforms). Feels good to be able to get back to them and actually finish them.

Beat the PC version of this. It looks pretty much the same but not sure if there is level changes. The game follows the story of the first movie, face off against Scar at the end. The Aladdin game was similar to this also.

I'll never forget how much my siblings and I freaked out when I finally killed scar and heard simbra roar from atop pride rock. It was an incredible feeling of triumph after months of effort between us all. Forever memories... damn we gettin older fam. Good times

After beating it multiple times, I remember the logs on the waterfalls on Hakuna Matata, and either the Hyenas or Scar in the final battle that gave me the most trouble. It might have been the difficulty of NES games when we were younger that forged us into og gamers.

I used to love the bonus stage with the falling bugs and your Pumba trying to eat everything without dropping one 😭

crazy i didnt remember playing this until you made this video.

As someone that speedruns this game, seeing your reaction to Akiteru’s run is an absolute joy. He is a god at this game.

Ending a brutally difficult game with "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" was bloody brilliant.

That was a great run. Haven't seen this in over a quarter century so MAYBE I could pull it off in 3x time. Guy's a pro fr fr

Furthest I ever got was Hakuna Matata, and lost my last life at the waterfall with the falling logs. I think that was the last time I ever played it. The patience and mental duress learning the game to get to that point without speedrun strats like floor skips was bonkers. Like, even Rocky would have trouble gettin' back in it after that kind of setback. The people who have actually beaten this game are terrifying, and deserve some type evaluation because they hold the mental power to alter the course of the world for either good or ill if left to their own devices, and I fear which way they lean after the experience of this game.

I used to love this game so much, the soundtrack was beyond godlike for a kid at the time

I got up to the Hakuna Matata level consistently, this lvl was my Everest when I was a kid. The waterfall and that damn gorilla. Only once or twice was I able to get to the last lvl, honestly it was the Hakuna Matata one that kept me from finishing it, it took me sooo much to beat it that I rarely played the last lvls and the damn labyrinth at the end was just a time sink.

The lead designer also worked on Aladdin, and that thing was the second game I never finished after Lion King. This guy was the instrument of my failures, but I just now found out.

I got to the wildebeast stampede, saw one level afterward, but THAT IS IT. I had this game for the weekend as a rental. It was really tough to learn how to play the game in two days.

My mom who was in her early twenties at the time got all the way until the final battle with scar but could never figure how to beat the level.

The co creator of this channel used to speed run The Lion King and wanted to do it on YT. She was in the hospital a lot and not with us anymore. We never did decide on a channel name.

Bro, this is gonna make me get back into my SNES. I never had a ton of games, but the Mario multi-cart, Killer Instinct, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Donkey Kong Country...I rarely beat any of them, but games you can play for years off and on speak for themselves. I remember getting to adult mode and flipping leopards but I don't think I ever beat this one. No time like the present, when gaming hates its customers at an unacceptable level.

This game and battletoads in battlemaniacs made me go crazy

This and Battletoads on the NES made me into the gamer I am today.

Imagine being a kid playing this at a church with all your friends during youth group

I was an absolute beast when I was a younger teen, I would clear entire blockbuster shelves out, beating this game is a great gaming accomplishment and goes to show how much games were naturally harder than todays. I also beat battle toads and ninja gaiden black…those were the days!

This was def one of them ones that made you rage lol

I remember beating this game as a kid. I didn't think much of it then but looking back, I must have spent hundreds of hours trying to master it. Sure level 2 was bad, level 5 was also tricky, the waterfall level was tough but I remember the lava level that was pretty much skipped here being the hardest by far. It was level 8, no passwords so it was so unfair when you lost all your lives there. Took me forever to understand what to do in that final part. And then it ws Scar, again took me forever to realize I needed to threw him off the cliff. And again, final boss and no passwords and not an easy boss either. Tough game. Looking back, I would give up if I have to beat something like this now. Actually I would just look for a guide in youtube on how to do it and it wouldn't be that hard I guess...

Thanks for this Asmon! So sentimental, happy to share in it with you. Played this at my Grandma's house after elementary school, she was cool. Would beat me in fighting games and racing games. This game reminds me of Bubsy, one of her favorites and mine. She probably could would've held the speed run record haha.

This was excellent to watch coz I NEVER got passed the monkey throwing puzzle in level 2 as a kid

15:50 you don't have to know it, it's just how the level finishes... Not a glitch, just the way it goes! When I was 10 I was finishing the game in less than 2h ^^ Along with some other not easy platform games I don't remember the names...

This game took me years to beat as a kid but I finally conquered it! Biggest bucket list accomplished in my life

For the people that never played this game: Yes, this game is freaking hard. Here are a few reasonst why: - Very limited amount of health, lifes and continues. A lot of them are hidden. The dude in the speedrun doesn't take much damage because he played it a billion times, but as a kid it is a different story and you WILL take damage in certain stages. - Very limited amount of healing. A few Scarabs/Bugs heal you, but they are very rare and its hard to tell which ones are the healing ones. - the platforming was scuffed. For example if you have to have to swing from one platform to another, you have to jump very precisely so that simbas paws grab the platform. it was not enough to just hit it with simbas body. - not possible to save the game. If you lost all continues, you have to start over form the first level. - certain scripted events oneshot you. For example in stage 3 when the water is rising, you have to jump VERY fast and super PRECISELY again to make it to the top. If you are a few frames to slow, the water touches you which instant kills you. Same for the 5th level and the first level where you are an adult. If the rolling rocks touch you, it insta-killst you. Combine that with the point i mentioned before and sometimes a single part of the game could kill your run. Oh and there is one rock in the first adult level that hangs from the ceiling. you have to jump, cut the liana and let the rock glide. if you position yourself wrong, the rock insta-kills you - scuffed controlls in the second level. When you are riding on the ostrich, you have to time every action super precisely again. If the game tells you to duck and you press down, your character ducks and is locked in that position for a certain amount of time. Then he stands up automatically again. You CAN NOT simply hold down to duck. And the double-jump had to be super precisely, too. You could NOT just spam jump two times in a row. You had to jump (at the right time, otherwise you die instantly), wait for a specific amount of time and then jump again. If your timing was off you were dead. - Since there was no saving, espacially at the later leves you stick to you strategies and don't experiment around since that could kill you and made you lose your run - NO INTERNET. A few mechanics where not obvious at all...Examples: Shouting at the red Monkeys in Level 2, how to beat the boss in the waterfall level and even Scar, the boss at the end of the game was "strange". I beat the game a few times, but for some reason the last Bossfight was super strange. Sometimes i could beat him very fast. Sometimes it seems that he did not take any damage at all and i was punching him for minutes...And most of the time you were on your last try if you reached him. If he killed you, restard the game...So you could not even figure out why he took no damage that run... Besides that, the game was fun! :D

I only remember ever getting to the stampede level a few times. Such a hard game as a kid.

that moment when you lost the last heart... gives me chills to this day.

I got to the end just once, and I don’t remember if I ever beat Scar. Same for Aladdin, i remember something about the snake shooting laser eyes from above, but that escape from the cave of wonders level was brutal

Wildebeest stampede was the toughest part for me. After beating that part a few times the stress of the rest of the game got easier. It was like the speedbikes in battle toads on nintendo for me.

Good memories. I remembered beating on scar and wondering why he wouldnt die. Dont know how many complete play throughs it took to throw him off the cliff.

There were a couple excessively hard games as a kid that I could only beat one level. These included Jurassic Park: DNA Factory on GBA and Star Wars Ep 1 on PS1

I remember that Hakuna Matata level kicking my ass as a kid. Those waterfall logs were torturous. It felt so rewarding to finally play as adult simba after that

Now this is what we call the Feral Druid Experience.

this must have been the team that did toy story 2 for game boy color... it still haunts my nightmares

Born in the 80’s and I played this on my SEGA. Never knew the stampede level existed