My memory of it is that it looked amazing. It still does. It's a Don Bluth cartoon short, more or less. But the game itself was frustrating and terrible. Even o

My memory of it is that it looked amazing. It still does. It's a Don Bluth cartoon short, more or less. But the game itself was frustrating and terrible. Even on easy you had to really nail the inputs or instantly die. It looked so good that even after I learned it was a waste of quarters as a kid, I still occasionally would get baited into playing. I remember the last time I played it was at a restaurant waiting for a table, there was an anteroom before the bar with a cocktail table Pac-Man and Dragon's Lair. After about 20 minutes of waiting I actually thought... "What if it's not bad, what if the machines I tried before were just faulty or abused." as I watched the intro loop from across the room. Nope, same anguish.