The game stars Ace, a space pilot who had been struck by the evil Borf's Infanto Ray, and turned into the feeble Dexter. Space Ace was revealed in 1983 and hit arcades in 1984. In-game screenshot of Dexter and Kimberly in Space Ace Due to the game's popularity, Dragon's Lair has been ported to numerous game consoles, most recently to the Nintendo Switch in Dragon's Lair Trilogy. By 1984, Dragon's Lair had grossed $32 million dollars for Cinematronics. The game achieved a worldwide success and is often cited as one of the greatest arcade games in video game history for its innovation of laserdisc technology as well as aiding in the turn around of the Video Game Crash of 1983.
While the original arcade game's level were randomized with each area cleared, the home versions have an option to set areas in a select order. The player directs Dirk in the direction he needs to go in order to advance deeper into the castle. Unlike common arcade games, Dragon's Lair ran on animation sequences created by ex-disney animator Don Bluth. In the video game, the Valiant Knight known as Dirk the Daring enters a dark and mysterious castle to save the beautiful Princess Daphne from an evil dragon.
1.4 Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lairĭirk and Singe during the final level of Dragon's Lairĭragon's Lair was released to the arcades in 1983.Dragon's Lair also has a movie in the works, albeit in development hell. The three games would be collected in a 2010 bundle known as Dragon's Lair Trilogy, receive multiple ports to DVD and video game consoles as well as spin-off games, and also be adapted into a comic series and a television cartoon. After 11 years, Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair would be the fourth and most recent Dragon's Lair title, released in 2002.īoth the original game and the trilogy as a whole received highly positive reception, giving birth to the entire laserdisc genre and inspiring many other laserdisc games such as Thayer's Quest and Braindead 13. In 1991, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp would be the third game and true sequel to the first, returning to the original setting and characters while also adding new ones. The game itself achieved a major success and was followed by Space Ace, a sequel to the original using new characters and a futuristic setting, released in 1984. The series began in 1983 with its first game released for the arcades, also called Dragon's Lair.
The Dragon's Lair franchise is a series of video games created by Don Bluth, originally published by Cinematronics and currently distributed exclusively by Digital Leisure.
This article is about the franchise in total.
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