If you grew up in the 1980's, you would remember the one arcade cabinet that caught everyone's eye, Dragons Lair. Walking to play some Pacman, you would see this shiny new cabinet which looked like an interactive movie. You would pop in some quarters, and play one of the greatest classics of all time! If you were living under a rock, or just not born yet, Then I'll tell you what this game is. Dragon's lair was the first full motion video game released as an arcade cabinet. It featured animation drawn by Don Bluth, who would go to work with Disney to work on some animated movies. The game was simple, Dirk the Daring, a Knight, is sent to rescue the beautiful, but much more obnoxious than Navi, Princess Dabney from the evil Dragon and escape the castle he lives in. Dirk will go through the lair, and it's the players job to keep him alive, by making him either go Up, Down, Left, and Right, or swing his sword. If you put the wrong command in, or put it in to late or to early, Dirk will die a grueling, but humorous, death. But does the Game Boy Color port stand a chance against the original? Well no. It isn't as slick, or good looking as the original, and sound quality is terrible, but it plays the same as the original. Just think, when the RGR plug in gets updated and supports MAME, then we can put this version aside, and play the original.

 

Nice overview of the game.

This game is one of my favorites actually. It's one of those people don't believe me about till I show them some video of it.

This belongs in Retro Game Reviews.

legacyme3 : You were just here. :| Can you move it?

the_casualty :

I thought it was ....

oops >.>

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On a side note, though, nice review. Really thorough and it's better then a lot of the other reviews I've seen.