Current Events > Have you ever played Dragon's Lair?

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If so, do you like it?
And, did you beat it?
Also, did you play the arcade cabinet, or on some other gaming device?

It was amazing when it came out...

I never beat it, it was damn near impossible without hundreds of quarters.

The cabinet of course...
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Dustin1280 posted...

It was amazing when it came out...

I never beat it, it was damn near impossible without hundreds of quarters.

The cabinet of course...

Yeah, I know. I was like 9 when it came out. Most popular game in the arcade, always someone in line, and eats quarters 2 minutes at a time lol

Funny you post this now. My dad and I were just talking about it.
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ClunkerSlim posted...

Yes.

In an arcade.
In Daphne.
On a DVD game.
And the crappy port to SNES.

Oh, and I watched the cartoon series.
Come at me bros!

I forgot they had a cartoon series.

The princess is crazy fucking hot
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ChromaticAngel posted...

The princess is crazy fucking hot

lol, she is that.

ClunkerSlim posted...

Saturday Morning cartoon intro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2eIuwJero

Special Dragons Lair episode of Starcade...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYxV1zwsp4

Cool.

Wow so now because of Stranger Things we have mainstream people suddenly knowing Dragon's Lair. That's crazy.

KazumaKiryu posted...

Wow so now because of Stranger Things we have mainstream people suddenly knowing Dragon's Lair. That's crazy.

I've been playing the fucking game since I was 9 years old. The show didn't rekindle a fire for it in me.

Yeah, but I liked braindead 13 better
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I played and spent plenty of quarters and eventually able to finish it each time,until the owners or whoever decided it was a good reason to have it freeze on purpose at some point preventing it from ever be finished again at that location. This was back when video game arcades were still the place to go,before home console gaming wasn't too big compared to today.
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On PC but all I remember was going down a river on a raft or canoe.
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Jesus years ago. I was just a kid who had no fuckin clue what to do.
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Never played it.
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KazumaKiryu posted...

Wow so now because of Stranger Things we have mainstream people suddenly knowing Dragon's Lair. That's crazy.

The game had a major rerelease event a few years ago and was a side highlight at E3.

Stranger Things might be reaching out to the non gaming audience but most anyone who was paying attention to games the past few years probably knows what Dragon's Lair is if they didn't already play or hear about it back in the 90s.
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ClunkerSlim posted...

Yes.

In an arcade.
In Daphne.
On a DVD game.
And the crappy port to SNES.

Oh, and I watched the cartoon series.
Come at me bros!

There was also a collection of Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2, and Space Ace on Wii and PS3.

Yes. I even bought the sequel and Don Bluth's other project, Space Ace.
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They released a really good Dragon's Lair & Space Ace modern update on Android/Ios A couple years back. I remember it having a bonus mode that randomised many of the scene orders and also had a cinema mode where you could just watch the whole story with no gameplay as a film.

Yes I played it all the way back on Colecovision and the arcades.

Once I owned the PC versions of both, I could easily beat part 2 in about 20 minutes in the arcade.
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Hirunesukidayo posted...

I played and spent plenty of quarters and eventually able to finish it each time,until the owners or whoever decided it was a good reason to have it freeze on purpose at some point preventing it from ever be finished again at that location. This was back when video game arcades were still the place to go,before home console gaming wasn't too big compared to today.

Yeah they set it hard so that almost no one gets to the end and there's no continue.

ArchiePeck posted...

They released a really good Dragon's Lair & Space Ace modern update on Android/Ios A couple years back. I remember it having a bonus mode that randomised many of the scene orders and also had a cinema mode where you could just watch the whole story with no gameplay as a film.

I like Space Ace but it's a little harder, a bit shorter, and very linear compared to Dragon's Lair.

Cocytus posted...

Hirunesukidayo posted...

I played and spent plenty of quarters and eventually able to finish it each time,until the owners or whoever decided it was a good reason to have it freeze on purpose at some point preventing it from ever be finished again at that location. This was back when video game arcades were still the place to go,before home console gaming wasn't too big compared to today.

Yeah they set it hard so that almost no one gets to the end and there's no continue.

Sounds more like the laserdisc decaying or the reader breaking down. Possibly both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Lair_(1983_video_game)#Development

The original laserdisc players shipped with the game (Pioneer LD-V1000 or PR-7820) often failed. Although the players were of good quality, the game imposed unusually high strain: LaserDisc players were designed primarily for playing movies, in which the laser assembly would gradually move across the disc as the data was read linearly. However, Dragon's Lair required seeking different animation sequences on the disc every few secondsindeed, less than a second in some casesas dictated by gameplay. The high amount of seeking, coupled with the length of time the unit was required to operate, could result in failure of the laserdisc player after a relatively short time. This was compounded by the game's popularity. As a result, the laserdisc player often had to be repaired or replaced. The life of the original player's gas laser was about 650 hours; although later models had solid state lasers with an estimated life of 50,000 hours, the spindle motor typically failed long before that. It is rare to find a Dragon's Lair game intact with the original player, and conversion kits have been developed so the units can use more modern players. The original USA 1983 game used a single side NTSC laserdisc player manufactured by Pioneer; the other side of the disc was metal backed to prevent bending. The European versions of the game were manufactured by Atari under license and used single side PAL discs manufactured by Philips (not metal backed).

Questionmarktarius posted...

Cocytus posted...

Hirunesukidayo posted...

I played and spent plenty of quarters and eventually able to finish it each time,until the owners or whoever decided it was a good reason to have it freeze on purpose at some point preventing it from ever be finished again at that location. This was back when video game arcades were still the place to go,before home console gaming wasn't too big compared to today.

Yeah they set it hard so that almost no one gets to the end and there's no continue.

Sounds more like the laserdisc decaying or the reader breaking down. Possibly both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Lair_(1983_video_game)#Development

The original laserdisc players shipped with the game (Pioneer LD-V1000 or PR-7820) often failed. Although the players were of good quality, the game imposed unusually high strain: LaserDisc players were designed primarily for playing movies, in which the laser assembly would gradually move across the disc as the data was read linearly. However, Dragon's Lair required seeking different animation sequences on the disc every few secondsindeed, less than a second in some casesas dictated by gameplay. The high amount of seeking, coupled with the length of time the unit was required to operate, could result in failure of the laserdisc player after a relatively short time. This was compounded by the game's popularity. As a result, the laserdisc player often had to be repaired or replaced. The life of the original player's gas laser was about 650 hours; although later models had solid state lasers with an estimated life of 50,000 hours, the spindle motor typically failed long before that. It is rare to find a Dragon's Lair game intact with the original player, and conversion kits have been developed so the units can use more modern players. The original USA 1983 game used a single side NTSC laserdisc player manufactured by Pioneer; the other side of the disc was metal backed to prevent bending. The European versions of the game were manufactured by Atari under license and used single side PAL discs manufactured by Philips (not metal backed).

Interesting.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Mac version.
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ClunkerSlim posted...

The real question is how many people here have played Road Blasters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSpgh0w3S4Q

Don't think I have.