![]() ![]() "Dragon's Lair! The fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair Princess from the clutches of an evil dragon!" Stick this disc in and you are hit with the main menu, but leave it that way and it jumps into ATTRACT MODE, the little video that played on the machine to entice your quarters. The DVD The game Dragon's Lair has seen conversions to so many home platforms now (I remember Dirk paddling down the river on my beloved Commodore 64), but none have been faithful to the original concept until now. But this was an unheard-of 100% increase back in the day.Īnd now, nearly 17 years later, the game is still selling well, and has made a full conversion to DVD. There are many, many ways to die in Dragon's Lair and creative animations for each one. Up until now, all games featured the same death sequence throughout the entire game. Even these were pretty interesting the first time. A Soundtrack: we had voices, sound effects, and music that was not bleep-bleep-bleep. ![]() Pac Man player ever questioned "Why are these ghosts chasing me? What did I ever do to piss them off? Why do I want to gobble these power pellets How will it end?" A story: Before this, you were there, but you didn't ask why or how.It sounds odd that such a restrictive, seemingly non-interactive game would have so much pull in the arcade. The wrong choice would end you in odd, creative ways. When the hero of the game hit an obstacle or danger, you had one chance of hitting the right move (5 combinations: Up, Down, Left, Right, Sword) to continue the cartoon. So what was it? Why was it special? What you had was a choose-you-own-adventure style cartoon drawn by Don Bluth ( Secret of Nimh, Anastasia) put to a laserdisc. The cartoonesque somewhat-interactive laserdisc cartoon game sucked quarters from the unsuspecting youth of America to the tune of over 30 million in the first 40 days alone (The game took 1.3 million to create. Pac Man, Q-Bert and the ubiquitous Defender was comparable to Estella Warren standing next to Howard Stern. In June of 1983, the dying arcades of America were jolted back to life with an unparalleled de-fib by Dirk the Daring, who, standing next to his peers Ms. ![]()
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