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Three classics are no longer available for sale on Steam, with nothing announced to say why. However, GOG at least have given a bit of warning that they're about to go.
Speaking on GOG, a staff member posted on their forum:
We'd like to inform you that Disney The Lion King and Disney Aladdin are being delisted from our catalog on July 9th, 2PM UTC, due to the publisher's request.
Everyone who owned the games prior to delisting will still be able to access them through their GOG Library.
Curiously, The Jungle Book was one also removed from Steam but GOG aren't mentioning that being removed. It's quite likely though it will be at some point soon as well.
On GOG, all three games come packaged for Linux with DOSBox enabling you to easily play them, so it's quite sad to see these classics just be taken away. Each of them on GOG also come with a "Commemorative 16-Bit Poster Art".
Want to pick them up before they're gone? Links below:
Hat tip to Mr. Doomguy.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Arehandoro Jul 8, 2019
Will Disney's new streaming service also offer games from their catalogue? Or is this only some stupid move from Disney (as usual)?
I had some of them in my wishlist, but no intention to buy them right now, so once are gone I will refer back to the more obscure means of getting them.
I had some of them in my wishlist, but no intention to buy them right now, so once are gone I will refer back to the more obscure means of getting them.
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That's Disney for you... always taking the term 'copyright monopoly' to full extent.
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How lame :\ I figure they're either moving them to their own service, remastering them soon (best case), or they're making new games for those properties, since all of them will soon have live action remakes out. Hopefully this isn't just some 'brand integrity' nonsense.
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Hopefully this means remasters are in the plans, not just the usual copyright mumbo jumbo. Doesn't concern me much as I have already bought them, I still hate it when a game just disappears from the store without warning.
Doesn't mean they won't be put back up, though. They removed Castle of Illusion in the past and now it's back in the store (apparently the licence has expired and then was renewed).
Doesn't mean they won't be put back up, though. They removed Castle of Illusion in the past and now it's back in the store (apparently the licence has expired and then was renewed).
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I have all 3 games, But they all have very bad controller support. It is way way better to just play them using a decent genesis emulator
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Can't you play all of those games at archive.org anyway?
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g2a to the rescue! feck you disney lol...
So that's why we need sellers like g2a...
So that's why we need sellers like g2a...
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Sil_el_mot Jul 8, 2019
Thanks for the info. just bought all of them via g2a before the keys get expensive.
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slaapliedje Jul 8, 2019
Was going to say, I could play them on my Amiga or on the Genesis. Sometimes it really is great to have the old systems laying around.
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rustybroomhandle Jul 8, 2019
g2a to the rescue! feck you disney lol...
So that's why we need sellers like g2a...
No.
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The Genesis version of Alladdin is the one you want to play anyway.
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thed4rkn1te Jul 9, 2019
Considering those three have had live action remakes made recently, I think any other tie in games in the remake pipeline will also get pulled at some point
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My generation grew up as Disney kids. I mean, if you wanted kids movies, you had Disney movies. With today's methods of broadcasting licensed media, I don't think Disney kids is a living term anymore... it's probably more like Minecraft kids these days.
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rustybroomhandle Jul 9, 2019
g2a to the rescue! feck you disney lol...In cases like this I have to agree.
So that's why we need sellers like g2a...
I bought them from there as well, yesterday when I first read this article.
I would have bought them from a less shady store, but I don't know of any. And this is a big problem, when there are no better alternatives, of course people are gonna have to use the shady one.
I'd have bought from Steam. I can't, so I'd have bought from a reputable reseller. Didn't know of any good one, so I had to use dirty G2A.
I don't feel bad. They left me no option.
So ok, GoL does not advocate piracy, but I have to lay this out. Consider these two options:
1. Download the Sega or Amiga roms. They are much better quality than what you get to run in DOSBox. Or just grab a pirated copy of the DOS ones. The developer gets no money.
2. Buy from scumbags G2A. They get money they don't deserve. Dev still does not get the money.
I know we're talking about Disney here, so I guess who cares if they get more money, but what you have done is given money to some random scum peddler instead... why? What logic is there in that?
Please, for the love of all things, let G2A die.
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Sil_el_mot Jul 9, 2019
I just want them in my one and only library: steam
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Excuse me... but were these linux games? I think I've stumbled on them a couple of times but I don't remember them having the penguin badge (or maybe they were overpriced and I never got them in the catalog)
Anyway... that stuff is very old and also used to be very popular especially on consoles. At Disney they know that on PC we have emulators right? Because to me that doesn't look like a big idea. It will definitely hurt them more than us.
Anyway... that stuff is very old and also used to be very popular especially on consoles. At Disney they know that on PC we have emulators right? Because to me that doesn't look like a big idea. It will definitely hurt them more than us.
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slaapliedje Jul 9, 2019
Stoney_Fish Jul 9, 2019
Sorry, I also used the w/o of G2A just to get these 3 games.
In Ubuntu 19.04 they did not start from Steam.
Went to the game's local files to run ./dosbox.sh in a terminal
Missing libpng12.so.0
Tried a symbolic link to the newer version but it still it complained about the libpng version.
So I installed dosbox
Tried just the command from the games dosbox.sh script :
dosbox -conf ../dosbox_lionking.conf -conf ../dosbox_lionking_single.conf -noconsole -c exit
It worked great but on game exit the screen resolution stayed as the game's resolution and needed to run "Displays" to revert back.
Also in the script I commented out (not sure if it was the right thing) :
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs
This allowed Steam to launch the game with the new dosbox, but still has the exit to resolution problem.
Any ideas what I need to do get the the resolution to drop back to 1920x1080 ?
Thanks
In Ubuntu 19.04 they did not start from Steam.
Went to the game's local files to run ./dosbox.sh in a terminal
Missing libpng12.so.0
Tried a symbolic link to the newer version but it still it complained about the libpng version.
So I installed dosbox
Tried just the command from the games dosbox.sh script :
dosbox -conf ../dosbox_lionking.conf -conf ../dosbox_lionking_single.conf -noconsole -c exit
It worked great but on game exit the screen resolution stayed as the game's resolution and needed to run "Displays" to revert back.
Also in the script I commented out (not sure if it was the right thing) :
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=libs
This allowed Steam to launch the game with the new dosbox, but still has the exit to resolution problem.
Any ideas what I need to do get the the resolution to drop back to 1920x1080 ?
Thanks
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Stoney_Fish Jul 9, 2019
I needed to google how to quit the Jungle Book game : Alt-Q
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