Disney's Aladdin
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Sega, Ballistic (US re-release) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Virgin Games, Disney Software, Sega of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distributor: Majesco Sales (US re-release) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensor: The Walt Disney Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: GEMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Action[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Disney's Aladdin, more commonly known as Aladdin (アラジン) is a platform game developed by Virgin Interactive. It is based on Disney's movie of the same name and was released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1993, before being made for the Amiga, Game Boy, IBM PC and NES. A Game Boy Color version also followed later.
Several different Aladdin games exist. An entirely different game was developed by Sims for the Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear was released around the same period, and another version developed by Capcom was created for the Super NES (and later Game Boy Advance). Capcom's version exists as at the time, they held the rights to develop Disney-themed games for Nintendo consoles (or more accurately, the SNES).
Contents
Gameplay
Most stages are played through as Aladdin, who must get through the stage while accomplishing a task given at the beginning of each level (such as finding Scarab pieces). throws apples (which can be used to hurt enemies and which there is a limited supply of but can be collected throughout the level),
swings your sword, and
jumps. Before the start of the game, there is a screen showing what each in-game item is used for.
If the Abu icon is collected in the level, after completing it a bonus stage will be rewarded where Abu must collect all the falling apples without getting hurt by falling pots too many times to win. If a Genie icon is collected another bonus stage will be rewarded, which is a slot machine-esque game where the player can either get bonus items or lose all remaining spins by stopping on Jafar.
Stages
Agrabah Market | |
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The Desert | |
Agrabah Rooftops | |
Sultan's Dungeon | |
Cave of Wonders | |
The Escape | |
Rug Ride | |
Inside the Lamp | |
Sultan's Palace | |
Jafar's Palace | |
History
Legacy
Disney's Aladdin for the Mega Drive is considered to be a milestone for video game graphics, utilising technology known as "Digicel" to bring hand-drawn Disney-style animations to a video game environment. As each frame was drawn individually by professional Disney animators, Aladdin looked significantly better than most other platformers on the market, with visuals comparable to the graphical style as seen in the film.
With the exception of unreleased games such as DynoBlaze, no other Mega Drive games utilised the "Digicel" technology, however Aladdin did inspire many similar methods, such as those applied in Shiny Entertainment's Earthworm Jim (comprised of many former Aladdin developers). Other games published by Virgin such as Cool Spot and Mick & Mack as the Global Gladiators share Aladdin's focus on animation, whereas many games such as Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure are considered to be inspired by Aladdin's efforts.
The success of Disney's Aladdin gave Virgin Games the opportunity to work with other Disney licenses such as The Jungle Book, The Lion King and Pinocchio. It was also bundled with Mega Drive II systems in Europe.
A Sega Mega-CD version was planned for release, though full production was unlikely to occur until after sales numbers for the Mega Drive version "became apparent"[10]. The CD version was scrapped in favour of concentrating on The Jungle Book.
Versions
Aside from text translations, the game is identical in all regions from a content's point of view. The PAL version, like most other Virgin Games releases, was optimized in terms of music speed but not gameplay speed. Forcing the game into 60Hz mode makes the music play too fast.
In 2019, Aladdin was re-released as part of Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch alongside several versions of The Lion King. The compilation includes the original Mega Drive version, along with the June 27th prototype build (named the "Demo Version"), the Japanese version, and a "Final Cut" version which is a modified version of the Mega Drive game with many bug fixes, camera adjustments and other tweaks to improve gameplay, with the goal of representing "potential changes that the development team may have implemented had they had more time". The Game Boy version is also included in monochrome and "colour" (simulating the game as if it were inserted into a Game Boy Color).
Production credits
- Programming & Project Management: David Perry
- Animation Engine by: David Perry
- Development Tools by: Andy Astor Services, Rob Northern Computing, Cross Products Ltd., Todd Robertson, Echidna
- Animation Directed by: Mike Dietz
- Assistant Animators: Shawn Mclean, Clarke Sorenson, Roger Hardy, Edward Schofield, Jeff Etter, Allyn Welty, Tom Tanaka
- Background Art by: Christian Laursen, Nick Bruty, Steve Crow
- Presentation Art by: Edward Schofield, Lin Shen
- Sound, Music & FX: Tommy Tallarico, Don Griffin
- Digital Sampling: Steve Henifin
- Director of Design: David Bishop
- Levels Design by: Bill Anderson, Tom Tanaka, Seth Mendelsohn
- Consulting Animation Producer: Andy Luckey
- Image Processing: Metrolight Studios
- V.P. of Production: Dr. Stephen H. Clarke-Willson
- Produced by: Robb Alvey
- Executive Producer: Neil Young
- Production Coordinator: Christina Camerota
- Original Design by: David Bishop, Seth Mendelsohn, Mike Dietz, Mark Yamada, David Perry
- Assistant Producers: Mike Glosecki, Ken Love, Craig Warmsley
- Marketing & P.R.: Debbie Brajevich, Robin Kausch
- Focus Testing: Debbie Brajevich
- QA Manager: Adam Ryan
- Lead Analyst: Jared Brinkley
- Product Analysts: Chris McFarland, Scott Manning, Paul Schoener, Mitch Feldman, David Fries, Lyndon Dole and Virgil the Cat
- Produced by: Patrick Gilmore
- Technical Director: Ron Fortier
- Licensing Brand Management: Cathy Fortier, Sue Fuller
- Public Relations Management: Kirk Green
- CES Event Management: Tom Bisignano, Spence Bovee, Helen Fillman, Andrew Henry, Will Kassoy, R.K. Little, Chase Senge
- Quality Assurance Leader: John Santos
- Product Analysts: Stewart Irel, Roger Kung, Chris McNulty, Amy Steiner, Joe Santos
- Storyboards: John Fiorito
- Production Support: Fred Weimer
- Directed by: Barry Cook
- Produced by: Paul Curasi
- Secretary to the Producer: Annette Laguer
- Artistic Coordinator: Ruben Procopio
- Production Specialist: Chuck Williams
- Animators: Tom Bancroft, Travis Blaise, Phil Boyd, Tony Cipriano, Rob Corley, Tim Hodge, Jim Jackson, Alex Kupershmidt, Anthony Michaels, Barry Temple
- Clean-Up Coordinator: Jeanie Lynd Sorenson
- Clean-Up Artists: Paulo Alvarado, Brian Beauchamp, Rachel Bibb, Eliott Bour, Sam Ewing, Tracy Lee, Kellie Lewis, Tamara Lusher, Mario Menjivar, Monica Murdock, Keith Newton, Sherrie Sinclair, Bryan Sommer
- Head of Effects: Jeff Dutton
- Effects Artists: Mike Duhatschek, Jason Francoeur, Troy Gustafson, John Hailey, Joe Pepe, Paitoon Ratan, Tony West
- Color Models: Irma Cartaya
- Animation/Final Check: Pam Darley
- Product Management: Pamela Kelly
- Produced by: Pamela Kelly, Kent Russell
- Public Relations: Ellen Beth Van Buskirk
- Q.A. Manager: Jason Kuo
- Q.A. Lieutenant: Julio Martinez
- Product Analysts: Tony Lynch, Dermot Lyons, Siegie Stangenberg, Andrew Podesta, Glen Cureton, Vince Nason, Heather Meigs, Janine Cook, Blair Bullock, David Forster, Bill Person, Rey Alferez, Kirk Rogers, Vy Nong, Maria Tuzzo, Atom Ellis, Richard Gangwish, Pete McNab, Eric Rawlins, Ivan Foong, Michael Baldwin, Todd Morgan, Greg Becksted, Conan Tigard, Joe Cain, Simon Lu, Joe Ganis, Jennifer Brozek, Erik Wahlberg
- Special Thanks to: Peter Adee, Martin Alper, Richard Branson, Ron Clements, Robert Devereux, Shannyn Gardner, Justin Heber, Tom Kalinske, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bob Lambert, Bob Levin, Alan Menken, Steve McBeth, John Musker, Amy Pell, Marc Teren, Shinobu Toyoda
- Disney Characters, Artwork & Music © 1993, The Walt Disney Company
- © 1993 Sega Disney's Aladdin
- Sound, Music & FX: Alan Menken
- Vice President of Development: Stephen Clarke-Willson
- Coordinators: Robin Kausch
- QA Manager: Steve Patterson
- QA Lieutenant: Jason Kuo
- QD Lead: Julio Martinez
- Legal: Sonya Sigler
- Manual: Carol Ann Hanshaw
- Screen Shots: Clint Dyer
- Special Thanks: Joe Miller
Magazine articles
- Main article: Disney's Aladdin/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
- Main article: Disney's Aladdin/Promotional material.
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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External links
- Behind the Design: Disney's Aladdin article by Ken Horowitz at Sega-16
References
- ↑ File:Aladdin MD JP Box.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-20 09:51)
- ↑ VideoGames, "September 1993" (US; 1993-0x-xx), page 41
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- ↑ MAN!AC, "11/93" (DE; 1993-xx-xx), page 45
- ↑ Megazone, "December 1993" (AU; 1993-12-01), page 37
- ↑ https://www.iam8bit.com/collections/legacy-cartridge-collection/products/aladdin-legacy-cartridge-collection (Wayback Machine: 2019-10-23 19:58)
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 6 No. 8 August 1993" (US; 1993-0x-xx), page 52
- ↑ File:Aladdin MD US manual.pdf, page 29
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 6 No. 11 November 1993" (US; 1993-1x-xx), page 96-106 (98)
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 2 February 1994" (US; 1994-0x-xx), page 120 (122)
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "December 1993" (UK; 1993-xx-xx)
- ↑ Supergame, "Novembro 1993" (BR; 1993-11-xx), page 26-27 (26)
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