Here, have a vidĪfter that, you fight your way through Jaffar’s castle, at the end of which you fight Jaffar in human form and finally in snake form.įor a final boss, it’s laughably easy.
Next, my favourite level in my childhood: You get to play through the entire A Whole New World segment. The next level is a pyramid which is notable only for having a shit-load of spikes (they’re not insta-death, thank God) and a fake mini-boss (you jump on its head once and it’s revealed to be your faithful companion Abu under a mask looking as befuddled as they could manage to make the sprite.) The genie level has got to be my favourite actual level. Next, genie invites you into his lamp … a genie lamp has surprisingly many bottomless holes of death, but also hilarious genie faces, everywhere. I did, however, catch all the hidden scarab beetles (every scarab gets you a bonus wheel of fortune at the end of the level) I didn’t really bother trying for 100 % completion by collecting all the red jewels because I’m sure if I had, I would’ve died considerably more often. Turns out it was way easier than I remembered, took me only two tries to get through. This level was the one that killed me every time when I was a kid (specifically level 2-4, in which you escape the laaavaaa on the flying carpet while trying not to fly into rock formations). The second level is a cave level with pits, log rides on rivers (nope, Aladdin can’t swim) and yeah, occasionally the floor is lava. (source: … not making my own screenshots because too lazy :P)īasically the first level is the place where you can try out all the stuff you can do (and there really isn’t that much apart from running, jumping, parachuting and throwing apples at enemies … the apples only stun the enemies and are pretty much useless, unless you want to see the stunned guards make silly faces.) Who the hell thinks of using the L button?) I’ve owned the game for longer than I remember and I used to be able to do almost parcour-like jumps through levels a few years ago and that was before I realised that you could use that cloth you find every so often as a makeshift parachute (it’s activated by the L button. The first levels (the market place of Agrabah) are still very easy, which gave me a chance to practice before the game turned into timed-jump'o'rama (well, to a certain degree … like I said, it’s pretty easy all the way through.) The first game of my retro replay, the side-scrolling platformer Aladdin (published for SNES in 1993) wasn’t all too challenging (as evidenced by the fact I finished it in an hour) but I’m quite glad of that, because it quickly became quite evident that I haven’t held a SNES controller in a while: I got killed by crappy little archer enemies in the first level not once, but TWICE.