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Dragon’s Lair Overhaul Black Edition (1/16th scale)
- footlose_3815 4y agoThis has released before, really janky little thing. It was worth playing in the 80s/90s, but just watch it on Youtube now...
- libraryatnight 4y agoDragon's Lair in general is more fun to watch than play, it's so nice to look at even after I knew it was a waste of quarters I'd still occasionally get baited into playing it.
- CharlesW 4y agoFWIW: "…a redesign of our original 1/6th scale Dragon’s Lair x RepliCade with exclusive features and updates including: a more powerful processor to enable HDTV screen mirroring…"
- davtho 4y agoThe amount of wasted quarters this make me remember...
- pupppet 4y agoThe intro is burned into my brain, they always seemed to turn up the volume on Dragon’s Lair the loudest in the arcade.
- vjulian 4y agoYes, and Space Ace. And I loved them both.
- oneoff786 4y agoHow did this game work? It seems like it was a QTE game with no prompts. Why was it popular?
- chowells 4y agoAccording to a random Wikipedia article I found, in 1983 the three top-grossing arcade games were Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position, and Dragon's Lair. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_video_games https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_in_video_games Compare the graphics of those three games. Dragon's Lair was groundbreaking, even if the gameplay was quite limited to account for technological and budgetary limitations.
- leereeves 4y agoThat's not quite the same thing as popularity. Dragon's Lair was very expensive per minute of gameplay, so it didn't have to be popular to make a lot of money.
- chowells 4y agoThis is true, but not related to my point. Dragon's Lair was in arcades in 1983. It looked like nothing else when it landed, and very little else for a long time. That's why it stands out in the history of games.
- tunesmith 4y agoIt always seemed to be the most popular game in the arcades I visited. Right in the center, sometimes with a monitor mounted above it so others could watch, ringed with people that were stacking quarters end-to-end on the side to claim the next play session. Seemed like it was that way until Gauntlet came along.
- pessimizer 4y agoBecause Don Bluth cartoons are awesome, especially the tons of death scenes animated for this game. Whenever someone made it to a screen that I hadn't seen, I was absolutely giddy and filled with dread over what was about to kill him. The game was bad and consisted of guessing when you should press buttons. Skill was gained through memory and constant application of quarters.
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- jimjimjim 4y agoDL and space ace could demolish a pocket full of coins
- trynewideas 4y agoHeadline's wrong. It's 1/6 scale, not 1/16.
- bredren 4y agoIn case anyone else was wondering, to make it a Dragon’s Lair arcade for ants, it would need to be 1/2000 scale. https://www.quora.com/If-humans-where-the-size-of-an-ant-how-big-would-the-earth-need-to-be-in-proportion/answer/William-Mook?ch=15&oid=82952546&share=e2ff9a2a&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/If-humans-where-the-size-of-an-ant-how...
- innocentoldguy 4y agoI had a chance to buy this when there were 19 left, but hesitated at the 1/16th scale description on HN, which seemed kind of small. By the time I figured out it was 1/6th scale, they were all gone. Oh well.
- Damogran6 4y agoFor a hot minute, this amazing, lazerdisk, Fifty Cents a Play game off my youth, was $2 and a 2 Gb download for your PHONE. (okay, it's still $4.99, but if anything demonstrates Moore's Law better, feel free to share it.)
- abrookewood 4y agoThis machine single-handedly destroyed my holiday allowance as a child.
- exogeny 4y agoI was too young for DL but I absolutely remember its cousin, the hologram-driven Time Traveler [0]. It blew me away when I saw it in my local arcade, but I don't remember it being a good game at all. Most of my quarters at that time (1991-1992) were going to ST:TNG pinball, Outrunners/Virtua Racing, and STUN Runner. Also worth a mention here is this kickass Italo remix of DL themes and samples [1] by Koto. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game) 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRffez98uYY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRffez98uYY
- toast0 4y agoTime Traveler and the hologram fighting game were both pretty bad. You were definitely pumping the quarters into the right machines.
- BizarroLand 4y agoThey were terrible for gameplay but playing that as a kid was the first time I had ever seen a hologram and I don't regret the $2 it took from me. I wish more games would use the technology. It's got to be public domain by this point.
- toast0 4y agoFancy lensing on top of a CRT, see also Pinball2000, which I've heard works fine with LCD as well.
- psyclobe 4y agoThey need a human to scale in the photos or something
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- kqr2 4y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/BananasForScale/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BananasForScale/
- khazhoux 4y agoThis and Space Ace were my favorites. The audio is forever etched into my brain.
- 4RealFreedom 4y agoAgreed. I could pick the audio from either out of a noisy room.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoThe cool kids pronounced it “Dragon Slayer”
- Maursault 4y agoMaybe there's some nostalgia value here, and although this game was innovative in that it used video disc to display unbelievable eye-popping graphics compared to video games of its era, as a video game it absolutely sucked, was not fun, play was too short, options astoundingly limited, and ultimately it was a ridiculous waste of quarters. But whatever makes people happy.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoDragon's Lair: The fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight, on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon. You control the actions of a daring adventurer, finding his way through the castle of a dark wizard, who has enchanted it with treacherous monsters and obstacles. In the mysterious caverns below the castle, your odyssey continues against the awesome forces that oppose your efforts to reach the Dragon's Lair. Lead on, adventurer. Your quest awaits!
- zxcvbn4038 4y agoThat is drilled into my skull right next to “apply directly to the head” and “where’s the beef?!”
- mixmastamyk 4y agoYup, can even hear the guy’s voice.
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- squarefoot 4y agoI think I played Dragon's Lair just one time, and never played Space Ace; they were gorgeous to look at, let alone the fantastic audio, but I didn't find interesting games where one had essentially zero control on what the character was doing, and all it needed was pushing the right button at the right time. There were much more compelling games at the time, and I thanked both DL and SA for grabbing other players away from them at the arcade:^) thread hijack: one game I liked a lot in the mid 80s but don't recall the name and failed to find later as retro emulated, assuming it does exist as such, is that one fantasy style platform in which a character fights in a dungeon against various creatures, one of which is a flying manta. Unfortunately I don't recall other details, but for some reasons I liked the flying manta a lot, probably because at the time I did some scuba diving with my father and always wanted to see one live, but that would have been impossible in our sea.
- innocentoldguy 4y agoI liked Dragon's Lair and played it quite often, but my favorite of the laserdisc video games was "Cliff Hanger," which used footage from two Lupin III films. It mostly used footage from the Hayao Miyazaki movie The Castle of Cagliostro, but included footage from The Mystery of Mamo as well.
- oweiler 4y agoAbsolutely hated that game, graphics couldn't make up for it. I still don't get why it has such a huge fan base.