YMS Plays: The Lion King 

Adum, I am literally begging you to put Scoot on Sardonicast to talk about Cats 2019.

The game's developers did a let's play where they revealed that the giraffe puzzle was mandated by Disney so that kids wouldn't see most of the game during a rental period.

This game was being made as the film was still in production. That's the reason for the Gorilla and the level as adult Simba through the fire cave, they're deleted concepts from the movie. The game designers had to fight pretty hard to keep the fire cave level because they worked so hard on it.

The amount of effort that went into those Twitch message pop-ups is just beautiful. Bless you, editor.

Isn't it funny how every retro game is re-released with a rewind function because they know these games are insufferable to complete?

Between Scar and the general cat on cat action I’m surprised Adum and Scoot were able to keep it in their pants long enough to get through this game

9:31 I like how he just answers his own question in like 10 seconds XD

The entirety of this let’s play channel was a build up for this very moment

Gonna go ahead and assume that 99.9% of players never even got to play as adult Simba. I know I didn't =\

That thumbnail is legendary XD

This game was made so difficult to encourage people to buy it instead of renting it as they couldn't beat it in a few days

Now that we've established a connection between Adum and Joel, I *need* adum to play the twerking simba bootleg

So that gorilla boss is actually a leftover from the movie. The game was developed as the movie was being storyboard, and at one point the movie was going to have a gorilla character. But it was eventually removed from the film, but the game developers fought to keep it in the final game as they spent time on it. This is also why half of Adult Simba’s levels are not movie accurate since it was part of Simba’s journey back to the Pridelands which was significantly shortened in the final movie.

Love how "Get me out of here" is still a meme

"All who oppose us are dead. Everything the light touches is our kingdom." - Muf 'might makes right' asa

I still have the Genesis version of this game. When my nephews and nieces need babysitting, it's one of their favorites. Gotta say, the stampede stage gave me straight up PTSD. And the hakuna matata level's log jump makes me want to drown a baby gorilla. But even with all that suffering, I still really enjoy it. Challenging, frustrating, but cute.

Great video Adum. Props to Imaginaryfanboy, dig the editing.

4:23 didn't expect a Vargskelethor bit. Now I gotta rewatch that vod.

I remember trying to beat just the can't wait to be king level and when I say the waterfall part I had a flashback

I'm glad I'm not the only one that called Adum straight allowing Scar to KO him the first time around. Best boy has to get his pound of flesh. Well played gents!

they made this game intentionally harder because of game rentals

Game needs a 16-bit version of the Wa Wa Wa Wa Wa Wa song for a stage soundtrack

My dad, sister and I used to play this together to try and beat it. I was the only one that could make it up the waterfall, but the monkey scared me so I’m glad Adam was also scared of it

The thumbnail made me smile already! Who drew that? And it's only right to see Adum play this game!

scoot's death is physically hurting at this point, RIP to The Cat Man, love my professional wrestler

Legitimately fucked up that they didn't play the Sega Genesis/Megadrive version. The Soundtrack is OBJECTIVELY better and is still a fucking bop to this day.

"Everyone treats me like I'm Hitler" Beautiful

I beat this game as a 6 year old on the snes. I tried it at 27 and couldn't get past those fkn giraffe bits.

I love the way they incorporate the twitch messages, it's like the joy of just watching a normal lp with the good parts of a stream and none of the bad

The thumbnail art for this video is perfect

RIP Scott

4:34 I hate how well did the lipsync looked.

Imagine playing one of the most infamously difficult games of all time with what are effectively training wheels on and still getting mad at it.

By the way, if anyone wants that Kimba ROM, just message me asking. The regular patching process can be tricky. Shout out again to whereTib for the help. My next video is Resident Evil 8. ;)

"Why isn't it working?" says Adum as he moves the exact same way into the bat over and over again.

22:50 Thank you for incorporating the amazing remix by Rainbow Soap, I've listened to this song endlessly on loop while working on the computer

Thank you to ‘virgin interactive entertainment’ for this masterpiece

I can't wait for the live action The Lion King video game adaptation.

Can't wait to see Adam get emotionally scarred by this game as an adult as I did when I was a kid. :D

Top tier thumbnail

These new thumbnails are fantastic! They look really good!

another S-Tier thumbnail

Mannn my cousin and I made it to the second to last level (the tunnels in the pridelands area.) as a kid but unfortunately never beat scar. (Though on average we’d make it to “Be prepared” fire lava caves and lose.) It took me to come back in my late teens to finally beat it. Watching ya’ll fumble around the gorilla reminded me of the first time we fought it. Genuine confusion and laughing every time he absolutely slaps the crap out of Simba.

I love the thumbnail art

Daddy being the rewind feature killed me.

was not expecting the vsauce joey bone zone

The Kimba section gave me chills, such an iconic character.

I like that Scoot's version of adult Simba is his Obama voice.

Adum made this game a crossover between Dark Souls and Life is Strange.

I remember owning both the Genesis and the SNES version of this as a kid. I preferred SNES version but that's moreso because of the controller.

Who else wants to hug thumbnail Scott?

Fun facts: this game was released before the movie launched, so the difficulty set by the devs was intended to prevent audiences from spoiling themselves on major plot points- which is also probably why Mufasa's death was excluded so early on in the game

this is a fun game... but good lord is it hard like A LOT of old games for the SNES and consoles of that generation. like i could not, for the life of me, get passed the stupid elephants! the jumps killed you if you weren't a pixel on the trees or Giraffes, the monkey mechanic is hard to figure out cause they just move one frame and it's so god damn long!!! anyone who can do it without dying 5 times is a gaming God!

I still absolutely adore the thumbnail art for this vid. Scoot looks so proud! 🥺

The sequel to Tenet we all needed

Context on the Mufasa death scene for those who did not live through it. I watched this movie in theaters. My own younger sister and 16 other children had to be taken out of the theater by parents when Mufasa died. That shit was unexpected and apparently traumatizing for a sizable percentage of children. Most additional media skipped showing Mufasa dying because of the reported trauma rate in children watching a cartoon lion dad being murdered. I remember crying in the theater, but I realized that was the appropriate reaction to a "death." I could figure it out in my head at 10 that the appropriate reaction is sad, but not too sad because it's pretend on screen.

this really makes me wonder why I never got into scar in -that way- despite him being objectively kinda 😏😏

this was my favorite game on the sega genesis as a kid.

Good work Fanboy! That "Scar c**" edit got me lmao 😂

Fun fact: the makers of this game originally made it at a much more reasonable difficulty level, but Disney forced them to make it harder because it was believed that you had to make the game impossible to beat in a weekend to make money, otherwise people would just rent it from BlockBuster.

9:31 I never laughed so hard in my life XD tTeATiNg Me LiKe i'M A hItLeR

4:22 yo! Vargskelethor!!!

I remember the scene where Simba was assaulted by a gorilla

If Adum plays Megaman on the Legacy Collection, he’d just spend the majority of the games rewinding

" WOW DUDE, PRIDE ROCK!!!"🤣🤣🤣🤣

3:05 I beat this game several times as a kid. Aw yeah!

The editing jokes are hilarious. Also you made some comment that it's just "Ow King" and having watched the full thing they should have renamed it to that.

One of the PC versions of The Lion King had a softlock glitch in the I Just Can't Wait to Be King sequence (I think the Windows 95 version) where you can miss rolling off the giraffe's neck at the beginning and land on the ground next to it, rendering the game unbeatable because you can't kill yourself if you get stuck.

*OH my GOOOO-o-o-OOOOOOOOOOD* *oh my gOD MY GOOOoood*

This is just Katana Zero the way he rewinds everytime he gets hit once

Dude this thumbnail is awesome. Perfection

LIKE A KITTY

I beat this on normal on the SNES version a long time ago. It's funny to see Adum struggle with it

I love the earthworm Jim inspiration on the transitions

The editing is so good holy fuck

And people say Dark Souls games are hard. Like, have you even played The Lion King??

Happy to see somebody played Catherine

The furthest I ever made it was that cave level with the lava and the freaking game froze. I refused to ever try the game again after that. I was so mad.

Is the health meter an EKG waveform? Just really simplified. What a weird choice.

I miss the blissful ignorance of not knowing that some people find The Lion King erotic, but such is the price for following funny furries.

I am deeply disturbed by Adam calling Scar daddy for the entire boss fight. I'm back on my meds, I've scheduled another appointment with my therapist. No please don't touch me.

I beat Scar by accident as a kid. I had no idea how I did it.

The editing in these recent videos is aweosme!!!

Who is the artist for these new thumbnails, they ROCK!!

Shoutout to Edge, Eddge, and Edgy Underrated comment

I have no idea how I beat this game as a child. I was usually pretty shit at games. I guess my dedication to the lion king outweighed that and I developed muscle memory, but I remember beating it, I believe more than once. Just can't wait to be king and hakuna matata are the bane of my existence in game form. Edit- I do have autism. That explains it.

omg that game! when I was a child, that ostrich riding bit took WEEKS to figure out and beat, the controls were terrible. Never ended beating the whole game, it was too frustrating and difficult

Cool thumbnail. I did love the previous style though.

"Also I wish this is me."

Simba has rewind powers? Is Nala going to say "You hella saved my life" anytime soon?

I wasn't expecting a Joel RCT2 reference but damn was it good.

4:21 I'm always game for a vinesauce joel reference

Did Adum get a new artist for the thumbnails? What happened to the last one?

3:00 as someone who owned this game as a child, you didn't. I remember always getting stuck on this level

I did beat it when I was 14 on the actual SNES, but looking at this, I realised maybe I was more patient than I'll ever be again

Oh man that kimba song was good shit.

@ 18:59 That Twitch username. Oh my God. LOL EDIT: Whoops. It should've been "That last message. Oh my God."

they just made crap and didnt playtest like everything in the 90s

4:23 Oh hello Joel

Seeing Adum struggle with this game makes me feel better for being able to beat this game both as a kid and as an adult.