Lion King - Simba's Adventure

The storylines from 1994's The Lion King and the 1998 direct-to-video sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride are the subject of this handheld game, which stars Simba as he matures from a precocious cub to an adult lion in a side-scrolling adventure spanning ten levels. The game begins near Pride Rock as Simba practices his pouncing technique on the toucan Zazu. The action continues through the Water Hole, Elephant Graveyard, and Wildebeest Stampede until an older Simba finds Nala. The battle with Scar concludes the first six levels of the game.

The final four levels mirror the action found in the sequel. As King of the Pride Lands, Simba must rescue his daughter Kiara from a crocodile-infested swamp, run through the dangerous Plains of Fire, survive an ambush of lionesses at the Outlands, and confront the evil Zira to reclaim his birthright as the Lion King. In addition to the main story, Simba's Mighty Adventure includes four bonus games starring Timon and Pumbaa: Bug Drop, Catch the Worms, Bug Tennis, and Beetle Hunt.

A fifth game, Tag, is a two-player contest between Simba and Nala in which players attempt to capture a star and hold it for two minutes without being touched. A Game Link cable is required to play this mini-game as well as two Game Boy Colors and two separate cartridges. Simba's Mighty Adventure offers three difficulty levels, which determine the number of lives a player begins with and the amount of damage received by enemies. Progress during the game can be resumed via passwords provided at the end of each stage.

Jungle Book - Mowgli's Wild Adventure

In WALT DISNEY'S THE JUNGLE BOOK: Mowgli's Wild Adventure, you must guide Mowgli on an adventure to become King of the Jungle. Mowgli must work his way through more than 20 levels of adventure, using his superior intellect. Instead of beating up monkey guards, Mowgli can use a banana to lure them away from their posts. However, there will come a time when fighting is necessary, and the man-cub can use a number moves to get rid of the enemies including a butt-stomp and a vicious spin-attack. Since the game is optimized for the Game Boy Color, the environments look like they could have been taken right from the film. Help Mowgli survive to adulthood in WALK DISNEY'S THE JUNGLE BOOK: Mowgli's Wild Adventure.

Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure

For starters, this game is really confused about what it wants to be. That it's an advertisement for Universal Studios Theme Park is a given (the title is a BIG hint). So, they obviously want you to explore the park. Fine. While you're there, you'll get to see such attractions as the E.T. Adventure (bicycle obstacle course), JAWS, Back to the Future, and more.

Along the way, you'll run into your tour guide, Woody Woodpecker, who will simultaneously annoy you with his poor dialogue, as well as his voice. I used to watch Woody Woodpecker as a child, and I do a better Woody Woodpecker than this. The game is rated "T," so it's not for little kids, yet it is presented in such a way that any self-respecting teen will never play it, let alone admit it was ever in the machine. So, what we have here is a tour wrapped around some games that are geared toward a younger audience than the game is rated for.

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