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Retronauts Episode 226: Aladdin Games

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Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Now that Disney's live-action Aladdin movie is out, we finally have a great excuse to jump back in time 25 years to examine the animated version of that property—one that was oddly important to the 16-bit console wars. Virgin Interactive's Genesis game mostly overshadowed Capcom's SNES interpretation thanks to some still-impressive technical tricks, but the conventional wisdom about the Sega version being superior might not hold together 2.5 decades later. On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert as they explore the Aladdin games of the past to find out which one is the true diamond in the rough.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week on RetroNots, we're so ticked off we're molting.

0:26.3

Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots.

0:29.4

I'm your host for this one Bob Mackie and today's topic is the Aladdin series of games based on the famous

0:35.4

Cartoonie movie from 1992 as I said before I'm your host Bob Mackie who's here with me today

0:40.0

Keep throwing apples at me. It's Henry Gilbert.

0:42.6

Apples are a viable weapon and at least two different games

0:45.9

But yes, so we are now recording this shortly after the release of the live action Aladdin remake

0:51.6

It's had made like 450 million dollars at this point yet. No one is talking about it. It's real shrug of a film

0:57.8

Is it one of those things where it's only making money in China and China doesn't have Twitter

1:01.0

So you're not seeing the tweets about Aladdin or what I mean it broke like 150 in America

1:06.2

Though these things are I mean, it's like the business model of them is they do good in America and then triple it in foreign markets

1:13.2

Yeah, which is why they have to make a lot of weird choices that don't appeal to us anymore as Mickey Rune said and radioactive man

1:18.9

The foreign markets are more important than ever these days and that was back in 1995. Yes

1:23.3

Yes, he was ahead of the curve

1:25.5

But another reason we're doing this is cross promotion

1:28.7

So at the end of the month of May 2019 we did an episode of what a cartoon movie about Aladdin

1:35.4

It was four hours long and there was more Aladdin info in there that you can shake a lamp at I'll say

1:41.7

That's really lame. I'm sorry

1:43.0

But if you want to listen to that whole thing you have to go to patreon.com slash talking simpsons and sign up at the 10 dollar level

1:49.6

Also give you access to a bunch of other movie podcasts that we've done

1:53.1

They're all upwards of three hours long or more and there's about six or seven of them at this point

1:57.5

Yes

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