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The Lion King
Console icon Genesis/Mega Drive

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Developer

Westwood Studios | Westwood Associates

Publisher

Virgin Interactive

Genre

2D Platforming

Released

December 8, 1994

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Achievements

Authors: GGM (12), Dissection (9), Scott (2), mrvsonic87 (1)

There are 24 achievements worth 350 (1,286) points.

Sort: Normal ^ - Won By - Points - Title - Type 
  • Slimy

    (10) (17)

    Collect 25 bugs in Bug Toss

    939 (503) of 3,397 – 27.64%

    14.81% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    27.64% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Collect 50 bugs in Bug Toss

    364 (208) of 3,397 – 10.72%

    6.12% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    10.72% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Reach Level 2 - Can't Wait To Be King

    3,354 (1,499) of 3,397 – 98.73%

    44.13% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    98.73% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Reach Level 3 - The Elephant Graveyard

    1,391 (636) of 3,397 – 40.95%

    18.72% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    40.95% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • The Stampede

    (10) (18)

    Reach Level 4 - The Stampede

    1,012 (466) of 3,397 – 29.79%

    13.72% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    29.79% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Simba's Exile

    (10) (19)

    Reach Level 5 - Simba's Exile

    952 (431) of 3,397 – 28.02%

    12.69% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    28.02% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Hakuna Matata

    (10) (21)

    Reach Level 6 - Hakuna Matata

    808 (383) of 3,397 – 23.79%

    11.27% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    23.79% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Reach Level 7 - Simba's Destiny

    696 (329) of 3,397 – 20.49%

    9.69% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    20.49% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Be Prepared

    (10) (25)

    Reach Level 8 - Be Prepared

    656 (316) of 3,397 – 19.31%

    9.30% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    19.31% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Reach Level 9 - Simba's Return

    566 (278) of 3,397 – 16.66%

    8.18% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    16.66% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Pride Rock

    (10) (28)

    Reach Level 10 - Pride Rock

    525 (265) of 3,397 – 15.45%

    7.80% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    15.45% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Lion King

    (25) (78)

    Finish the game

    465 (238) of 3,397 – 13.69%

    7.01% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    13.69% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Collect 9 Lives in Normal mode or higher

    545 (240) of 3,397 – 16.04%

    7.07% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    16.04% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Collect 9 Continues in Normal mode or higher

    239 (142) of 3,397 – 7.04%

    4.18% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    7.04% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Collect 3 health extending bugs

    266 (190) of 3,397 – 7.83%

    5.59% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    7.83% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Little Roar

    (10) (40)

    Collect 4 roar extending bugs

    253 (176) of 3,397 – 7.45%

    5.18% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    7.45% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Collect 7 bonus bugs

    237 (158) of 3,397 – 6.98%

    4.65% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    6.98% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Piquant

    (10) (25)

    Collect 30 bugs in Bug Hunt

    692 (316) of 3,397 – 20.37%

    9.30% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    20.37% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • I'm stuffed

    (25) (136)

    Collect 60 bugs in Bug Hunt

    173 (124) of 3,397 – 5.09%

    3.65% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    5.09% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Defeat the first 2 hyenas at the same time in The Elephant Graveyard

    430 (259) of 3,397 – 12.66%

    7.62% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    12.66% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • To Die For

    (10) (37)

    Don't take damage in The Stampede

    353 (194) of 3,397 – 10.39%

    5.71% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    10.39% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

  • Throw enemies 15 times in Simba's Return

    181 (131) of 3,397 – 5.33%

    3.86% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    5.33% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Rightful King

    (25) (138)

    Don't take damage in Pride Rock

    180 (122) of 3,397 – 5.30%

    3.59% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    5.30% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode
  • Lion God

    (50) (234)

    Finish the game in Difficult mode

    220 (147) of 3,397 – 6.48%

    4.33% of players have earned the achievement in hardcore mode
    6.48% of players have earned the achievement in softcore mode

Recent Players

Faraz Faraz

15 Jun 2025, 3:19am

Just Can't Wait To Be King | 🦁: 3 | Normal

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Just Can't Wait To Be King | 🦁: 3 | Easy

theretrobristolian theretrobristolian

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Elephant Graveyard | 🦁: 9 | Easy

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Just Can't Wait To Be King | 🦁: 5 | Normal

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14 Jun 2025, 10:34am

Pridelands | 🦁: 3 | Normal

paniszcze paniszcze

13 Jun 2025, 11:15pm

Elephant Graveyard | 🦁: 9 | Normal

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13 Jun 2025, 10:27pm

Elephant Graveyard | 🦁: 3 | Normal

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13 Jun 2025, 9:03pm

Just Can't Wait To Be King | 🦁: 2 | Normal

Recent comments

(See all 24)
Kilianours 2 Oct 2015 11:39
"Stupid Proachers" didn't trigger for me. Weird.
GGM 2 Oct 2015 14:38
"Stupid Poachers" retested with standard rom (W). It works just fine.
Kilianours 3 Oct 2015 17:22
Ok, seems it does work on normal difficulty but not on easy.
Schlimtor 4 Oct 2015 06:24
It worked on easy for me. Must be one of those achievements that has to be super precise.
GGM 7 Oct 2015 12:38
Achievements protected against cheat (level select & invicibility).
Boka 15 Jun 2017 21:13
Little Hairball will not trigger if Timon throw 3rd bug in bonus level. Crap... have to restart whole game...
Webodan 22 Sep 2018 12:13
Can't Wait To Be King didn't unlock for me. Using RetroArch on PS3 and "Lion King, The (W) [!]" ROM with Genesis Plus GX.
GregHouse007 11 Mar 2022 21:25
I don't know where else to say this but I'm trying to play this game and it constantly resets to the menu screen in the middle of the game. Is not even reseting, it just goes straight to the menu screen where it says start and options. Does anybody else have had this problem with the game or knows how to fix it? I'm playing on RetroArch. I downloaded the 4 emulators there: Genesis Plus GX, BlastEm, Picodrive and Genesis Plus GX Wide. All of them have this problem. It's like I'm on a timer and at any point in any part of any level, the game gets redirected to the menu screen. It has happened more than 15 times already, I can't even get to the fourth level. I only have a few minutes each playthrough. So frustrating. I guess I should activate quicksaves and try that way, but I won't be able to finish it on hardcore that way :/
GregHouse007 11 Mar 2022 23:08
Ok, I think I found the "trigger". It happens when you jump and quickly go left to right or right to left. If you do that, half the time this bug will happen and it's game over and you will end up on the menu screen. If you let one second pass after jumping in one direction and then changing it to the other, I think it doesn't happen.I think I can avoid doing it but it's already a very hard game, with many tricky achievements and it has a LOT of platforming where this bug could happen. So to add that to the challenge it's going to be really frustrating. But I think it is doable now that I know what NOT to do, I'm going to try it at some point...
GregHouse007 3 Apr 2022 02:09
Well, I did it. I could never fix that problem, just learn to play around it. But it must have resetted the game at least 20 times. This was a very hard set even without that. Really hard trophies. Probably one of the hardest I've mastered here. The only thing missing is leaderboards for the mini games with Timon and Pumba
LETSPLAYmarkus 13 Oct 2022 22:24
Mastered! My 80th Award. Hard game, but lovely childhood. Thanks for the set.
Petenokor 19 Jan 2023 17:15
Can anyone help me please with throwing Scar? I play with RaLibreto. And I can't find the button(s) to do that.
PablloVittar 14 Apr 2023 08:38
press B and c together, when he is exhausted
lazzy128 22 Apr 2023 07:22
I assume no cheats can be used for any cheevo?
SleepyheadDree 9 Mar 2024 00:20
Badged! This set is a little easier than the SNES set due to the lack of a deathless cheevo, though the addition of a hitless on the last stage does increase the challenge. For anyone stuck, practice hitting the pounce move and moving back and forth into his range.
IantasGames1995 22 Apr 2024 01:26
Mastered! / Platinado! :D
Weis 12 May 2024 04:34
The Elephant Graveyard unlocked on demo screan
Danielsonic87 22 Nov 2024 04:23
Mastered on Genesis, too!

I like much more than SNES'set, because here there is much more variety of things to do on some levels.

I think that this is harder for a reason: to beat the last level without getting any damage!! 1 hour to beat it!! Very unforgiving because the enemy are not always fair and square and Scar, sometimes, have a strange physics to eeact to your descending attack.

Alas, for me, is a little delusion because even this version deserve a "complete the game without lose a life", because this version is faster than SNES and pulls out the muscle memory of a player (even on the Stage 9 there is that DAMNED rock that is very hard to escape because the Genesis version glitch!!!)

Great game, but not hard as many players says: Genesis got much more tough games
DryIce53 19 Jan 2025 05:40
punny mastered,all chevos are green light to play :D
also use the 6 button mode to trow bit easily,practice before you going against scar...
R3ZM4N 3 Feb 2025 02:29
Mastered this classic from my childhood. Also cannot express how massively helpful DryIce53's tip about the 6 button mode is. Makes throws so much easier.