Of course, no event at the arcade was more momentous than the arrival of a Brand New Game - that magical moment a shiny new box was wheeled onto the arcade floor, luring me into yet another tantalizing world of pixels and puzzles. A mere five bucks in quarters would provide hours of enjoyment, even if those insatiable machines gleefully ate my coins faster than a Hungry Hungry Hippo eats marbles. The weekly trip to the local arcade was like my birthday, the Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one. So, did they manage to pull it off? Read on.Īs a child of the '80s, videogames were a huge part of my life. It's this "light-on-the-interactivity" part that Digital Leisure (the game's distributor) has been promising to improve with this Blu-ray release, making use of the format's BD-Java technology. Without falling falling squarely in one or the other camp, one might assume that the game would just fade away, but instead it has enjoyed a curiously strong afterlife in recent years, both as a traditional PC-based game and (more successfully) as a light-on-the-interactivity standard-def DVD game. Yet while several other games were produced and released in a similar fashion, ultimately Laserdisc was not to be the format of choice for advanced gaming, leaving 'Dragons Lair' a technological oddity - not really a video game as traditionally defined, and not really a movie, either. Originally conceived and produced in the early '80s as an arcade game utilizing then-cutting edge Laserdisc technology, for a brief moment in time 'Dragon's Lair' bridged the gap between animated film and video games, enabling players to progressively "unlock" scenes in an otherwise traditionally-produced animated film. The short answer to both questions is that 'Dragon's Lair' has always been a most unusual brand of video game. ![]() ![]() Those unfamiliar with 'Dragon's Lair' may be wondering why an arcade game is being released on Blu-ray disc, and/or why we're reviewing it here at High-Def Digest.
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