Dragon's Lair | Game Grumps 

Ok I am fully convinced they made Princess Daphne extremely hot and flirtatious just to distract the player so they’ll die constantly and have to give up money

It's so clever that there are not only a ton of scenes that play in random order *BUT ALSO* some of the scenes are flipped left to right and vice versa, which made memorizing twice as hard

Modern Gamer: "I hate quick time events." Dragon's Lair: "You call those quick?"

Fun Fact: If this is the steam version, then there is an autoplay/movie mode version you can choose in settings so that you can appreciate the animation.

10:55 Dan: "Heh, last try, last try..." *24 MINUTES OF VIDEO REMAIN*

I like how Princess Daphne is basically the game's boss. She's *entirely* designed to distract you, making the end segment much harder than it otherwise would have been.

I like the noises Dirk makes.

I remember this game in the arcades, they would have a second screen on top of the machine and people would gather around to watch. Seeing someone beat the game was a rare sight.

Daphne is basically pin up Thumbelina, Don Bluth really did only know how to draw like, three characters, but dammit if he didn’t draw them well lol

"This game had to have cost $500k." Well, a hard ass game like Dragon's Lair easily made it back from all the sacrificed kids' quarters

"Who's castle is this?" I don't know Arin, maybe it's someone's lair, like, perhaps, a dragon's lair or something...

this game is the definition of "you zigged when you should've zagged"

For anyone who’s curious, Daphne’s voice was done by Vera Pacheco, who was primarily an animator. Just thought I’d share that with you!

I can never get bored of the animation when Dirk respawns and looks from left to right, it’s so good

Arin unleashed his inner woman and imitated Daphne's "sword" to a T at 31:07 Play that bit back at 31:04 when she says it and then when Arin says it.

The best part of the animation: Dirk looking both ways

For those who are wondering just who that castle belonged to, there actually is a little backstory to it. The castle actually belonged to the evil wizard Mordrok, who imprisoned Daphne and had his pet dragon, whose name was Singe, guarding her. Mordrok eventually became the main villain in Dragons Lair 2: Time Warp. Which is why the first level was Dirk going back to the original castle while escaping his mother-in-law.

To be honest I'd pay to see Dan and Ashley dressed as Dirk and Daphne : D

Fun Fact: The animation director for the game is Don Bluth he used to work for Disney and has made some very unpopular and popular animated movies like The Secret of Nihm, Land Before, American Tail, All Dogs go to Heaven and I'm not naming the bad ones because I lack the will to, but still the bad ones are still beautifully animated

Dan, bro, you should TOTALLY make a song for NSP called 'Ode to The Princess' and it's just a massive fangasm song Danny Sexbang sings about what he'd do to Daphne. Like it starts out all whimsical and romantic, then it just descends into rock

Daphne's hair is the same style as Thumbelina (another Don Bluth work)

Now they gotta do Space Ace

i like that arin as an animator was too distracted by how good the animation is to react i mean same

Eternal closet-furry Dan Avidan confirms, alongside Princess Daphne, one of the reasons he likes blondes is because of the titular Last Unicorn. Another puzzle piece added to the collection.

I'm not crazy for thinking that Daphne's voice sounds a little too close to the one Arin puts on when he reads for Zelda, right?

“Dexterity saving throw” The Game

Dan: “Daphne, I wish you were real.” **Dan dates Ashley**

Don Bluth has such a unique way to animate four legged creatures. I mean, check out that dragon walk. So goofy, but makes sense? I can't get my head around it.

Princess Daphne was the second best part of this game The best part was the dude’s screams

I wanna see Arin and Dan drawn in Bluth’s style!

Get you a man that looks at you the way Dan looks at Princess Daphne

Finally, a game when ALLLLLL the rage is completely justified

I love that when Daphne squeaks the grumps squeak too

It's insane when you realize how influential Dragon's Lair is for modern games of today. Insane ahead-of-their-time graphics, absurd brutality/gore(not actual gore, but the ways Dirk dies go from hilarious to horrifying), the "save the princess" theme was pretty common for these games but it was really cranked up to 11 with how *sexy* Daphne is (well-endowed game honeys being a trend itself), THE ENTIRE THING is QTEs, it has a mechanic that constantly shifts events which makes for a unique playthrough every time. I mean... God Damn. Just think about this and those playable movie games like Detroit: Become Human, and really, what is the difference. Dirk and Connor (any pretty much anyone else, but mostly Connor) can die a million brutal ways just from you fucking up QTEs, and the animation is amazing.

Don Bluth created this and he also did animation for Anastasia, all dogs fo to heaven, American tail, secret of Nymph, Land before time!

"Once you've played the game for a while, you learn to 'Oh shit!'" Dan, 2019

God it's so fucking fast. It makes a half hour video feel like a regular length episode. EDIT: Someone should calculate how much money they would have spent if they were playing this on an actual arcade machine.

35 minute episode? I think we're all the boy who wins now

Dan: Okay, gotta concentrate Daphne: Oooh! Oh my! *takes up half the screen* Dan: Dammit Daphne, why are you so hot and distracting me from the sword?

"Last try" *20 minutes left in the episode*

'We're gonna have to air this episode after Dragons Lair"

Wait a minute, this isn't "All Dragon's Lair Death Animations"

Dan has gone Super Dayan

Dan: I did it! I did it! Dans grade school teacher: YOU DIDNT DEW IT! YOU LIED TA ME!

I remember when I was little my dad had a computer emulator of this game, and he'd be able to play it to the end, and we always made jokes about how Daphne said, all breathy, "to sLAy the drAHgon use the magic sword!" Good times...

That God Damned joke about how a kid would need over $20,000 to play Dragon's Lair in the arcade killed me

There are NO arrows in the arcade version.

You guys should contact Don Bluth and Gary Goldman and see if they'd do a GuestGrumps with you both.

My money's on Dirk the Daring for Smash bros DLC.

id watch a Game grumps episode thats just you two watching a youtube video of all the Draogon's lair scenes and appreciating the shit out of that good good animation

Nostalgia Critic: "Eye's on the prize! Eyes on the prize! Oh Woooowww...eyes off the prize! Eyes off the prize!"

Dragon’s lair the dark souls of arcade games Dame I didn’t expect this

Game: you saved the princess, now you have to get out of the castle! Dan:F%#@

At 15:18, I was laughing so hard at Dirk's sudden scream!

Dirk Daring for smash

Now that they're playing this game, they need to play Dragon's Lair 2. That game is pure WTF in a good way.

Link: "I won!"

imagine if dan accidentally pulled a battle kid and hit quit after he died in the dragon's lair.

The original Dark Souls.

Rest in peace Vera. Daphne was an icon.

No hesitation when Arin asks if he Dan wants to see some princess Daphne cosplay. I love it.

Am I the only one who didn't mind Dan messing up in the dragon's lair to see more of Princess Daphne? 😂😂

Princess Daphne looks more like Aurora from sleeping beauty then Peach

So where’s Dirk the Daring? All I see is Dirk the Dying

The animator for this game also made many classics like Anastasia, The Land before time, and more.

I was going to say that if I was Don Bluth I would have reverse versions of all the scenes to trip the player up even harder.....but he does that. Fair play you quarter crunching monster.

This game has 22 minutes of animation and cost 1.3 million to make.

A game made up entirely of quick time events HAS to look this good to even have a chance at love from the public.

Dragon’s lair was way ahead of its time. It was doing QTE’s way back before resident evil 4 popularized it

Dayamn that was a fast paced game

In the second game, there's a whole sequence just to escape aaaaalllll the way back home. Ending as soon as you save her here is like a blessing

"You must slAAAyyy the DraYYyygon with the SWoooOOOrd."

Anyone else notice his score was 46920? It's a 69 in the middle of a 420. *crawls back to the Land of Unfunny Jokes

Now they should play Space Ace.

I think that Daphne acts like that is because she's bored of being imprisoned.

Damn, the finishing score was 46920. So close...

Honestly the way Daphne acts makes it seem like there's something seriously wrong with her.

By my count, not counting the reset at the beginning of the game, they died a total of 78 times. Apparently, it was 50c per play on the original arcade version, so if the original was: -5 lives per credit, they played 16 credits + 1 reset, for $8.50. -3 lives per credit, they played 27 credits + 1 reset, for $14.

Don Bluth is so incredibly talented

Danny's the Dragonslayer. He's the one who conquered the Dragon's Lair

Fun fact: there’s a sequel and it usually takes Don Bluth, the director and animator of Dragons lair about 10 minutes to complete dragons lair

but like Dan's girlfriend Ashley actually looks like princess Daphne. Coincidence? I think not!

31:12 "I wonder who did the voice" Dammit Dan, don't you remember in King's Quest VI when Ross told you that it was Holly's grandpa's ex-wife who did her voice!

Here is me waiting on the official movie.

Dirk the daring would be a pretty fun character to make in D&D. Just a random thought.

Nobody wanna talk how Dan sounded like Linda from Bobs Burgers

Princess Daphne's dress is a sparkling cape away from being a swimsuit

Imagine playing this on the computer like my family used to- there's no arrow pad indicator on the screen, you can only listen for the sound cues and hope you're in a scenario where the path lights up xD

did anyone else hear arins dead-on impression at 31:06

Dan's gotta get Daphne's peppermint creams.

The part with the marbles where they make it different colors is so ahead of its time. They did that so you know/can tell you’re in a different scene/part. Games now a days still sometimes forget to do things like that.

They're gonna do Dragon's Lair 2 and Space Ace as well, right? Right!?

Princess Daphne, even for the time, feels like a parody of a damsel in distress. Like she's clearly meant to be Don Bluth's weird titillating sexual fantasy, but she is so ridiculous and over the top that it's hilarious.

I love when Dan is so distracted by princess daphne that he dies

There were no arrows. The indicators were just the glowing on the screen, and sometimes the glow was a fake out

Oh god, you were not joking when you said Princess Daphne is hot... damn

I like to imagine that Dirk’s trying to house flip this old Lair and the whole game is him trying to fix it up and quickly realizing he made a terrible investment.

Dan meets his ultimate foe: That pillar, repeatedly

Me: I'm pretty good at quick time events Dragon's Lair: *I'm about to ruin your whole career*

32:16 perfect sync