How to animate old school dragon lair2/12/2024 Still to this very day, Dragon’s Lair and its animated movie gameplay by Don Bluth are highly regarded in the history of video gaming. Unlike every other pixelated sprite styled video game in the arcades, Dragon’s Lair has a most fascinating history to uncover, it became an instantly famous arcade game in America due to its unique cartoon animated graphics as well as its intriguing but frustrating gameplay. It was inherently different from every other arcade game in every possible way at the time of it’s release way back in 1983. As a young teenager playing arcade games, I only marvelled at its amazing graphics but also baulked at playing it because of the high price per game. Little did I know of the incredible story behind how Dragon’s Lair came to be. I remember that castle fantasy arcade game, the one that by 1986 when I first laid my eyes on it (in Australia), was always in the corner by itself and not many people playing it because it was more expensive than the 20c Galaga, Spy Hunter or Gyruss. When animator Don Bluth agreed to animate an obscure laserdisc videogame tentatively titled “The Dragon’s Lair”, little did he know it would become one of his biggest successes…ĭragon’s Lair… Dragon’s Lair… ah yes Dragon’s Lair.
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