The game consists almost entirely of animated cutscenes. The game is "on rails", meaning the narrative is predetermined and the player has very limited influence on its progression. This same applies to Space Ace and Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp. It was cropped both in original 4×3 LaserDisc and 16×9 Blu-ray releases.
The original source master was likely filmed in 1.37:1 ratio. In the 21st century it has been repackaged in a number of formats as a retro or historic game. The success of the game sparked numerous home ports, sequels and related games.
Dragon's Lair overcame those limitations by tapping into the vast storage potential of the LaserDisc, but imposed other limitations on the actual gameplay. Due to hardware limitations of the era, artists were greatly restricted in the detail they could achieve using that technique the resolution, framerate and number of frames were severely constrained. Most other games of the era represented the character as a sprite, which consisted of a series of pixels displayed in succession. It featured animation by ex- Disney animator Don Bluth. In the game, the protagonist Dirk the Daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe who has locked the princess in the foul wizard Mordroc's castle. Z80 processor on a proprietary motherboard ĭragon's Lair is an interactive film LaserDisc video game developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems and published by Cinematronics in 1983, as the first game in the Dragon's Lair series.
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