Aladdin IBM PC MS-DOS 1994 Spontaneous Confusion

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Aladdin PC DOS

Spontaneous Confusion ported Virgin Games' 1993 Genesis version of Aladdin to IBM PC MS-DOS in 1994. Aladdin is a scrolling platform game based on Disney's 1992 animated film of the same name.

PC DOS Aladdin was programmed by George Allan, drawn by Ade Carliss and composed by Patrick Phelan.

In Aladdin players control the Arabian prince, Aladdin. Aladdin can move left and right, look up and down, jump vertically, jump diagonally, crouch, swing his sword, throw apples, climb up and down ropes and move hand-over-hand across clotheslines.

Aladdin pickups include Apple, Apple Slic, Flute, Harp, Aladdin Head, Gem, Abu Token, Genie Token, Black Lamp, Vase, Scarab Piece and The Lamp.

Aladdin Features

• Smooth multi-directional parallax screen-scrolling
• 11x stages
• Lives Remaining, Life Meter, Gems Collected, Apples Held
• The Genie's Bonus Machine
• Abu's Bonus Rounds
• The Peddler (merchant)
• 3x difficulty levels: Practice, Normal, Difficult
• Toggleable sound/music

Aladdin Technical

PC DOS Aladdin displays in 256-color VGA 320x200 and runs at 50 FPS. The active drawspace of PC DOS Aladdin is 320x160.

The PC version of Aladdin was distributed on 3x 3.5" 1.44MB HD diskettes.

PC DOS Aladdin audio supports Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster AWE-32, Sound Blaster Pro, Pro Audio Spectrum, Pro Audio Spectrum Plus, Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and Windows Sound System.

PC DOS Aladdin controls supports keyboard, two-button joystick/gamepad and Gravis Gamepad.

 

Aladdin manual: 13 pages.

Aladdin copy protection: Reference to manual (page, line, word).

Aladdin Levels

• Agrabah Market
• The Desert
• Agrabah Rooftops
• The Sultan's Dungeon
• The Cave of Wonders
• The Escape
• Bug Ride
• Inside the Lamp
• The Sultan's Palace
• Jafar's Quarters
• Jafar's Palace

Aladdin Amiga

Jaguar Software ported the 1993 Genesis version of Aladdin to AGA Amiga in 1994. Amiga Aladdin is solid but lacks the presentation of PC Aladdin. You can see that just by comparing my infographics.

Amiga Aladdin was programmed by John Twiddy, drawn by Teoman Irmak and Hugh Riley and composed by Andrew Barnabas of DENS Design.

 

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