One of the puzzles is based on the story of "Beauty and the Beast", the Disney version of which (Beauty and the Beast (1991)) starred the game's star Robby Benson
The manual that came with the game, the "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles," was necessary to beat the game, as it contained a translation of an in-game language and phrases used as answers to riddles to advance the plot. Sierra used this as a way to prevent the game from being playable if it was pirated.
Computer game voicing debut for both Tony Jay and Robby Benson. They also voiced in the 1991 Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast" a year earlier.
The genie's name, Shamir Shamazel is a parody on the Yiddish words Schlemiel Schlimazel, which in English roughly mean "clumsy idiot".