It was laserdisc based with full motion animation graphics. It looked and sounded like _nothing_ else in the arcade. The best graphics in other games at the t

It was laserdisc based with full motion animation graphics. It looked and sounded like _nothing_ else in the arcade. The best graphics in other games at the time were things like Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac Man (i.e. cutesy low resolution pixels and beeps/bloops of sound). Dragons Lair was awe inspiring--you were _controlling_ a real cartoon, like what you might have dreamed of doing while watching cartoons on TV. There were prompts FYI, the button you needed to press would quickly flash and you had fractions of a second to smash it. The whole point of the game was kind of to infer the right action from what was happening on screen too, i.e. if a skeleton is swinging a sword at you then you probably want to jump away from them but not into a nearby pit.