If you press the jump button when you hit the camel and are facing to the right, you will bounce up and get a Genie bonus level. Its too bad that pots or rocks are also falling down. In the Agrabah market, bounce on the first camel. Make Abu run back and forth to pick up the special items that drop all around him. Then, after you play the Genies bonus machine, youll go on to Abus bonus round. will also include the Sega Genesis and Nintendo Game Boy versions of Aladdin, a 'final cut' version and a.
There's a lot more fun trivia in the full post, which you can (and should) read over on the VGHF website. Pick up an Abu token in 2 of Aladdins levels. Disneys 90s classic Aladdin game gets new level sections in final cut remaster. "The design doc calls out that Aladdin would only appear as Prince Ali in one level of the cartridge version, and is intentionally omitted to save ROM space." Disneys Aladdin is a series of platformer video games based on the 1992 motion picture of the same name. "Aladdin in Prince Ali form was planned to appear in numerous additional Sega CD levels," Whitehouse writes. He also found what seems to be an early design document for the game which outlines, among other things, a rock, paper, scissors mini-game (a la Alex Kidd) that never appeared and a Sega CD version that never happened.
It also showcases a bunch of assets that were cut from the final game (like a bunch of weird enemies and an entire bonus stage), since Whitehouse discovered the code he was working with (archived by the Foundation) included a significant amount of source art. The game itself is often recognized as a high point for what games could look like on the Genesis, and Whitehouse's efforts to pull it apart (using the Noesis tool) and look at the insides (excerpts below) sheds light on what game development was like in the '90s. The Video Game History Foundation has published the first product of the Writing Fund it opened this summer: a deep dive into source code for the Sega Genesis game Aladdin, written by game developer Rich Whitehouse.