The first looks like it could have been an animated film from the 80's or 90's, a new entry into this series could be a way to renew interest in the franchise
It WAS a animated film from the 80's. The original game is just a interactive animated short, where you use the correct moves to trigger the right animation.
@@nothilton4943 Yeah, definitely the prototype of quick time. The only difference was using traditional animation versus digital video game animation, Don Bluth didn't work cheap.
The information shown is very generalized and does not even remotely correspond to reality. For example, at 01:25 excerpts from the version released that year for the Phillips CD-i device are shown, which is basically a multimedia system based on CD-ROM, so the game runs practically identically to the original (as the images show ) but it is informed that this version was also distributed for the Amiga and Atari ST microcomputers, which is not true because in that year of 1991 there were not, at least commercially, CD ROM readers for these lines of microcomputers, thus this version shown ( based on high quality and long duration videos and audio), was never released for these microcomputers simply because it would be virtually impossible for equipment without CD ROM readers and relying only on 500 kilobyte disk drives, the specific recreations for these should have been shown equipment, packaged on a few simple floppy disks, therefore extremely simplified versions, based on small sprites and "rudimentary" graphics (like any other typical computer game of the time) that only vaguely resembled certain situations present in the original game, however not counting the animations and cinematographic audios of the original, which are present in this version for the Phillips CD-i
Never played it in the arcade (saw a machine once in Weston-super-Mare but couldn't get near it), but I was obsessed with the Amiga port back in the day. Also enjoyed the XBox 3D version for what it was. Of course time moves on and when I finally got to play both it and Space Ace as they were (relatively) intended on modern systems, they were shown up for the shallow quicktime games that they are. Still have a place in my heart though,
Nah. A new entry wont do this game any justice. The return to the lair was supposed to be just that... and it was terrible. The first DL arcade game took advantage of the fact that the videogame market crashed that year (1983) and the gaming audience wasn't as big or as savvy as they are today. Thus making the original DL arcade release 'lightening in a bottle'. I was alive to see all of this happen. No amount of remakes can re-capture the hysteria this game caused upon release.
I remember seeing Dragon's Lair in arcades at the time it was released and being stunned by what I thought were graphics. That is until I played it and realised it was trash - perform a perfectly timed and non-obvious action (akin to a quick time event) or die. Over and over. I remember seeing the less well remembered Space Ace which was more of the same. Ports that tried to capture the actual arcade game (i.e. not platformers) were technically amazing but the game never stopped sucking.
![Evolution of Dragon's Lair Games [1983-2013]](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
