But that didn't stop the Leland Corporation from releasing Dragon's Lair II: Timewarp into arcades, and finding a neat little surge in nostalgia as a result. prev nextĭragon's Lair and Space Ace eventually faded from popularity around the early 90's, mainly due to the arcade scene seeing a shift into home releases. Space Ace turned out to be a big hit as well, and also saw various home releases, including 3DO, Sega CD and Blu-Ray. Featuring longer stages to get through, a beautiful art style (once again put together by Bluth) and dialogue between the characters (namely Space Ace and Commander Borf – "You cannot win!"), the game also featured selectable difficulty settings, with Ace serving as the "supreme" level, where players could go through the entire game. The release of Dragon's Lair turned out to be a big hit for Cinematronics, which led to the debut of a more intricate laser-disc adventure in 1984, Space Ace. It's since gone out of print, and fetches pretty high demand on Blu-Ray. A digital version also arrived for Xbox 360 (it's backwards compatible on Xbox One) and PlayStation 3, and a Blu-Ray release came out from Digital Leisure years ago.
Various home releases followed over the years, including the Philips CD-I, the 3DO, the Sega CD and the Nintendo Wii, as part of the Dragon's Lair Trilogy release. prev nextĭragon's Lair lived on for several years in arcades, and continues to be a favorite at certain trade shows today. Sure, once you were "one and done" and were able to beat the dragon, that was really about it, but the mixture of stages that Dirk comes across – they're scrambled in no particular order – makes it worth playing through again, just to "master" it in all its completion.
The game was put together by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth, who has since gone on to direct a number of works, including The Land Before Time, An American Tail, The Secret of NIMH and Titan A.E., amongst other works.īy utilizing laser-disc technology, the game was able to go leaps and bounds over other sprite-based efforts in the era, and create a unique experience. If the animation art style looks familiar, it should. That means footage could actually be played along with, like an interactive movie, with the player making choices in each of the game's various stages to keep the main hero, Dirk the Daring, alive long enough to rescue his beloved Princess Daphne, being kept under lock and key by the villainous Singe the Dragon. The original Dragon's Lair was produced in 1983 and was released by Cinematronics using laser-disc technology.
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