Dragon's Lair
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A drawbridge, a knight in slightly oversized armor and a tentacle lunging out of the moat: that is how Dragon's Lair says hello, and within seconds it has probably killed you in some spectacularly animated way. Created for arcades in 1983 by Advanced Microcomputer Systems with animation by Don Bluth's studio, the original laserdisc cabinet looked like nothing else on the arcade floor, a playable cartoon with the fluid, hand-drawn polish of a feature film.
You are Dirk the Daring, a lovable and occasionally hapless hero, battling through the castle of the dragon Singe to rescue Princess Daphne. Every room is a short animated scene built around split-second decisions. Push the right direction or swing the sword at exactly the right moment and Dirk scrapes through; miss it and you are treated to one of the game's famously inventive death animations, which are half the reason people kept feeding it quarters. The rogues' gallery is pure Bluth: shambling mud men, the Lizard King, giant rolling balls, killer bats, crackling electrified floors, deadly whirlpools and, at the end, Singe the dragon, coiled around a hoard of treasure.
Earlier home versions on cartridge systems had to reinvent Dragon's Lair as a conventional platformer. The Sega CD, in this release from ReadySoft, could stream the animation itself from disc, so the scenes you remember from the cabinet play out on your own TV. The video is grainier than the laserdisc, but the expressions, the slapstick and the menace are all there. It is also every bit as demanding as the arcade original: a game of memorization and precise timing, where learning each room's rhythm is the whole challenge and the payoff is finally watching Dirk get it right.
Few games have a stronger claim on gaming and animation history at the same time. Dragon's Lair proved that a game could look like a movie years before hardware could do it any other way, and the Sega CD was the add-on built for exactly this kind of experience. As a companion to Bluth's films or a centerpiece among Sega CD FMV oddities, it brings that 1983 spectacle home in its most recognizable 16-bit form.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1983
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- Cinematronics
- Developer
- Advanced Microcomputer Systems
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Haven't heard of Dragon's Lair?! Well, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon! Originally released in the summer of 1983, Dragon's Lair has solidified itself as a cultural icon in gaming.
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