For ages whenever someone's brought up the old Lion King game I've said "there are two interesting things about that".
Those two interesting things are:

1) The game was made in the middle of that unpleasant period where game publishers were terrified of people renting games over a weekend, beating them, and then giving them back, so the developers were instructed to make them as difficult as possible in order to artificially pad out the playing time to encourage people to buy their own copies
2) The Windows release of the game was made before DirectX, instead using Intel's Dino Libraries, and its poor performance (often not running at all) on certain Windows PCs caused Disney to harass Microsoft into developing the "Manhattan Project", which would come to be known as DirectX

I realised as I was thinking this over earlier today that I was tripping up over my own story. The Lion King was released at a time when most PC games were made for DOS, not Windows, and any game that ran on Windows 95 more than likely actually just ran on DOS and people's memories (or the documentation) doesn't discriminate. It was unlikely Disney would have released a version specifically for Windows 95 right out of the gate when the majority of PC users likely were still using DOS, if not a version of Windows that had to be booted into using "win".
(Of course, Disney did later end up re-releasing The Lion King alongside a few other games in a bundle specifically for Windows 95, but that's another story.)
Never mind that – the game released in 1994, so my story couldn't possibly be right.

Looking up "Dino Libraries" I eventually found that the first version of Sonic CD for Windows used them and was later re-released to use DirectX 3, so if my confusion came from anywhere it's that, but I was absolutely certain the PC version of The Lion King was a dud which ruined christmas for legions of kids and was subsequently the source of at least volume on Microsoft's side to figure the gaming situation out.

Can anyone help me sort my memories out? Was The Lion King for PC as much of a disaster as I recall or am I just making this up out of nowhere?