It's trying really hard to be the Genesis game on Game Boy. In some respects that's commendable, but it's obvious that the Game Boy wasn't geared to handle it. The only way the team found to translate that Disney animation onto handheld was to sloooowwwww the game speed down to accommodate all the extra frames. Levels are fairly minimally updated, so a lot of sequences that benefitted from the extra screen real estate are now needlessly tricky and leap-of-faith-y. This of course means levels that were already dickish like "The Escape" are just even meaner this time around. I do think a better call would've been to take more of the approach Dark Techologies did later on with The Lion King, where the general ideas of these levels are preserved but updates are made to account for the reduced screen space, etc. Not good, but it's at least over and done with quickly enough with the Disney Classics Collection port and its special features.

Technically played via the Disney Classic Games Collection via the Nintendo Switch

It's kinda interesting how a Mega Drive game got ported onto the Game Boy when the SNES had it's own version of Aladdin thanks to Capcom but that's where the interesting stuff ends because fuck man, this port has aged like milk under the sun.

The thing that especially annoys me is the fact that both the sword and the apple throwing is both mapped to one button so when you want to throw an apple, Aladdin will sometimes just straight up ignore your input and do nothing. This is especially irritating to shit during the first boss because not only do you need to jump countless times to avoid the stuff he's throwing at you (not helped by the shoddy collision detection) but you are basically required to throw apples at him since you can't get anywhere near him with the sword. Just throw the apples already, you fucking idiot!

This made for a very annoying experience indeed and overall a very weak port of the game too.