So last week we were on vacation...

[A Black Falcon]

Hey, Lion King was one of the few good Disney games made way back when. That and Alladin on the SNES.

Yeah, I know. I should have mentioned that too... Lion King isn't perfect, because I think that they focused more on the graphics than the gameplay, but still, it's good. It has somewhat bad play control (it requires precise, extremely frustrating precision), but the graphics sure are amazing...

On that note, one of the games I got, Jungle Book (Genesis) is by Shiny, just like Genesis Aladdin. And Genesis Aladdin is one of my favorite Genesis games. I never saw the Jungle Book movie, but the graphics... wow, that team did so much with animation that almost no one at the time was trying to do...

Licensed games from bad developers have always been bad, but good developers used to make licensed games too. In the 8 and 16-bit eras Capcom (lots of Disney stuff), Virgin (other Disney games, 16-bit era only), and Konami (Tiny Toon Adventures, TMNT, others), to name a few, consistently made good to great licensed games...

On a completely different note, Magical Starsign has nice graphics, but the mind-numbingly easy difficulty level and simple, repetitive gameplay gets boring. It'd also be nice if there was a way to play with the buttons too... the touchscreen controls are interesting, but not really necessary for anything in particular, and being able to use either buttons or the touchscreen would have been nice. The battles are random of course, but it's so linear that that doesn't really matter...