Disney's Aladdin (Genesis video game)

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Disney's Aladdin is a 1993 platform game developed by Virgin Games and published by Sega for the Genesis. It adapts the 1992 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Aladdin. Players control Aladdin as he navigates side-scrolling levels incorporating the film settings and scenarios. Aladdin was the first Disney video game adaptation developed with Disney's direct involvement. Disney, dissatisfied with the quality of previous adaptations, wanted to match Aladdin's artistic quality. After canceling an initial attempt with BlueSky Software, Disney partnered with Virgin Games, with Sega handling marketing and distribution. Virgin developed digitization techniques to convert Disney's hand-drawn animation to sprites and reproduce Aladdin's style within the technical limits of 16-bit hardware. Disney's Aladdin was released in October 1993 to coincide with the film's home video release. It received acclaim, particularly for its animation, which critics described as unprecedented in cartridge-based games...

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