Dragon's Lair Arcade Game Review - Cinematronics 1983 - FUNSPOT ARCADE
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Yet another John's Arcade on the road! This time we head up to Funspot Arcade in Weirs Beach, NH. We visit ACAM (American Classic Arcade Museum) and check out their laser disc games and play a few games of Dragon's Lair. Funspot is running the Daphne emulator system as the original hardware is really flawed. I'm not good at the game but still have fun! Such an awesome game!
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I wish they had at least 1 continue. Dragon's lair 2 is 10x harder and random as hell.
I remember crowds of people around this machine. At the time it was state of the art in comparison to the older simpler machines.
I was there (Funspot, Weirs beach) back in the summer of '14 and I could not play the game because the joystick was so hard to get a response from. "The joystick on this game is a little not right." Also, I agree that this was a game which you admired people for being good at. I remember back in '84 I went into an arcade in Georgetown near DC (my mome and I were there) and this African American 30-40ish man who worked there knew how to get through everything. And I just sat in awe admiring how good he was and how he showed us how it worked. Later around '86, '87 I would play the game in arcades and you really got the sense of how 50 cents was worth so much more to your average middle class person (me) back then. You appreciated things like this more back in the 80s because home technology was so far removed from the arcades. I mean Colecovision was around in '82 and the NES in '85, but this was better. BTW, nobody knew what a "Quicktime Event" was back then. I'd like to take a time machine back then and say that term to somebody and see their puzzled reaction.
I remember back in the day, my brother and I went to the North Village Mall arcade in South Bend, IN and played a two person game. We both played it all the way through, with no deaths, and wound up with a tie score. Too cool!!
Kevin Patrick Ending up with a tie score would require you to play the elevator and snake scenes exactly the same.
I was the same as you. I didn't play the game cuz' it was a 2 token game. I bought the "Dragon's Lair" lunch box several years ago. Great memories.
The only problem I have with Funspot is that the Laserdisc games have a PC in the cabinet running Daphne. I know it's more reliable, but I prefer the original hardware.
Been to Fun Spot about 4 times, got introduced to it, by a friend who's dad used to operated arcades back in the 80's,90's.
I remember the liquor store right on the highway :)
Dragons lair is still one of my favourite laser disc games. Which although its read via laser etc.. I think the data is still analogue.
AnalogX64 data is still analog? Impossible to respond in a meaningful way to that comment...
I beat this game the second time I played it. But only because I stood by for weeks and just watched and observed every move everyone else did. When I got to the Dragon's Lair, it was the first time i'd seen it. I freaked out and bashed buttons in panic and got past it. $1.00 was all that it cost me. :)
MarkFaust no way you just 'bashed buttons' and somehow got by the dragon
Love the vids. Man, did I ever drop the quarters back in the day.
I actually messed up while editing the video and had the music too loud during one of the segments and when I was talking. The music was supposed to be at 8% volume level like I usually do and I didn't do it! My bad! :)
Great video but that background music is so annoying!
This brings me back. I remember going to Number #1 Fun at my city mall and they had the second Dragon's Lair there. There was always the same group of people playing it. And the arcade even had a competition for the first person to beat the game would get the actual arcade machine. The machine didn't stay too long in the arcade so I guess someone did beat the game.
Penfold8 What I would give to receive an arcade cabinet for beating this game..
Also, I was kind of upset that when I went to Funspot, the Joystick on Dragon's Lair didn't work. :(
That Dragon's Lair game seemed to be really slow. There seems to be too much delay between segments of the video. I have Daphne running on a PC here and the video clips are much more fluid.
On a real arcade, there's an actual laserdisc player in the cabinet, and it takes time for the laser pickup to physically move to the correct frame on the disc. You don't have that on PC, it's all running from a hard drive.
Dude, she is totally cool and supportive!
Took me a minute to figure out how this game works. "if player executes direction X then skip to laserdisc track X" Pretty freaking genius. Interesting how it came out the year of the 1983 console crash also.
Love this! I really loved the cartoon series when I was little.
I was 23 years old when this came out.
Cost .50 to play.
You have to head to the Silverball Museum in Asbury Park NJ over 200 pinball machines you will love it.
Dragon's Lair is on the IPad and it looks perfect. I have a ICade and it makes it play just like the arcade game. i highly recommend it on IPad.
I was one of those peeps who had 1 go on this in the Arcade - i stood and waited for yhe game to start and felt veru WTF when after a few seconds i was greeted with 'Game over.' - that was enough for me.
The game has always conflicted me ever since, i still don't know if i like it ' the animation is beautiful but i'm just so poor at it and yet i am always compelled to try it out again, i like that it's different but mever completely gel with it - i feel the same about FMV games - they're interesting curios but ultimately not great games beyond innovation.
Cool video.
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As soon as I see the neogeo keith's song came to mind. Neogeo neogeo.
Speaking of Cliff Hanger, I don't have the video files. It only comes up with the hints for me. Maybe Funspot has them.
Much of the moves for Dragon's Lair arcade work on the Atari Jaguar version of the game. You should have found out if the cabinet used the recent version of game ROMs along with the updated laserdisc. It was the last LD ever pressed, mainly for owners of the machines whose original Dragon's Lair LDs rotted.
Kinda strange how in the arcade it doesn't start you off on the bridge THEN randomize the levels.
I personally love the game. One of my top faves. But I've played it so often now that I usually can beat it without losing a life :)
Great Video! Why are 1/2 the games not working?
Loved this game. I could, after many tries, get through with one life but it HAD to be working properly lol
Also stay toon for update video 2015 were I build arcade basement so you can any game there
I actually hate Funspot but I appreciate ACAM and their goals. It's located in a funky spot way up in NH. You will catch the flu like I did from all the nasty germs in the winter. The entire place is actually not an arcade but more of a park for kids. Entire areas are devoted not to arcade games but for kid rides (there is a bowling alley in fact). Most arcade games are not the games that are fun but the millionth version of Pacman. The games that do work are busted.
I finished this game back then but like you said you won't play it again me too.
So going to go to funspot soon since I live in delaware.
John,I thought you said that Fun Spot was located in Laconia New Hampshire not Weirs Beach New Hampshire.
hi john its a hard game dragons lair i have it on my arcade running daphne!
why dont you put it on your mame machine upstairs to give it a try?
this game is epic for the reasons you stated, but it is not intuitive overall and doesn't give you enough time to make decisions and inputs. it needed to have more lead time animated so you see things coming better.
Irish fan! I live in South Bend and we have a pretty good old school arcade here. Only thing is the pinball machines are in terrible shape and they have good machines.
You should do Dragon's Lair II and Cliff Hanger at Funspot.
I'm actually not a Notre Dame fan. I got the sign on clearance on Home Depot. :D
This is not an arcade game you would want to have and play repeatedly, as there's only one way to get through it. The designers of these games sort of knew that, as they made them easy to change to a different game as they got old- I think they just had to change the disc and the cabinet art. Most of the ones in my area were changed to Space Ace when that came out. I have the actual Dragon's Lair laserdisc and have it uploaded here in its entirety.
Why do they have these original cabinets running Daphne?
Gordon Freeman the old laserdisc hardware has failed long ago
I never knew anyone who played this game more than once or twice. Expensive and it was too hard to figure out without spending a fortune. A lot of the scenes, as you can see just leave you somewhat lost as to what you're even supposed to do. A few are more obvious but you could play other games for hours on what you would spend on this thing in 5 minutes. Plus, one minor glitch to a joystick and you had no prayer since timing was everything.
In modern times you would master the game at home before spending anything at an arcade.
If you went to the arcade enough, you would eventually see a good player get through the game.... and you would learn all the moves that way
I played it more than twice. But the home CD ports.
this game is a lot like programming your cars fob
The best version I ever played of this game was on the Philips CD-i. Every other system I have played this on seemed somehow not as good in the transitions.
TJ Fowler you haven't played it on the Wii
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Oh, Okay I was just a little bit confused.
I agree that you would never play it again after you mastered it, but I bet most people who walked in the basement would draw right to it. They would probably suck too, and you could show them some John skillz
I sold it a while ago!
It's the same thing! :)
Qbert is working again.
atari football at 11:35. my favorite
i never liked this game nor have i ever heard of a person thats not connected to it by nostalgia say its good :/ maybe its because i never saw it growing up but it kinda but this game in particular reminds me what arcade machines are all about: take your money, fast turnaround, they want you to play again, cheap deaths, and that feeling that you want to see whats next...except theres no enjoyment other than it being a QTE game with out the notifications on what to press lol
i only played space ace in 2004 on a cdi.... god that was frustrating xD
I'm currently building a mini replica of this game. Those original Wico joysticks are awful. Not surprised it was shonky on this machine. Need far too much TLC to keep working properly. Also the blank black screens between scenes is really game breaking in my opinion. In Daphne you can speed this up in the options so those black pauses don't occur. Much better even if it's not 100% authentic to the original machine.
Darwinion The machines at funspot are running Daphne.
I'm not good at Dragon's Lair either, and I've gotten worse with age. Still a good game with funny video video. Even if it is death video.
does it tell u what direction to press or do u have to guess?
You have to guess.
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i dont think id b that good i have dragons lair timewarp on my ps3 and its hard to do to get the trophies u can earn by completing the game as u have to start with 3 lives cause if u choose 5 it wont give u the trophy when u win
Have you ever considered doing a review of Pac-Man? Was kinda surprised to not see it in your list
Hay man I play dragon lair on Xbox 360 and I bet the first time I played it
I like the video return off the music when you start talking about the dragonslayer game while you're standing in front of it. The music is so loud we can't hear what you're saying about the game.
7:03 you press sword
Love the video, not a fan of the opening music. But that's just me.
Lol, Astron Belt was horrible! I remember playing it as a kid and it sucked. I could never tell if I really shot anything or what the hell was going on.
What about polybius??? Bobby???
1:09 Costanza
I liked the sequel, Time Warp, alot better.
It's a very unforgiving game my experience was the same as you!
I remember seeing this game at a Showbiz when I was little, I guess it was new at the time because they had it pointed out where everybody could see it from outside the arcade area. I don't know if dual screen versions existed, it's all a fuzzy memory, but I feel like they had a screen up high where it was visible from a long distance. I was kind of mesmerized by it.
Never played it though. I've always been resistant to any game that costs more than a quarter, but I know that's not a realistic price point anymore in 2015.
This game appears to suck. I made the mistake of buying a similar style of game on the Sega CD and it sucked too. I don't like this kind of game design, but it was a novelty in 1983.
The Atari 7800 game console was originally designed during 1983, and it's design included an expansion connector for a laserdisc addon, just so it could run games like this. It would have supported graphical overlays on top of the video. That console didn't get released until much later though and the laserdisc never happened (it would have been a mistake anyway, IMO).
I agree, this game seems really bad. I suppose it's a "you had to be there" kind of game where you could see it in context of other games at the time and be awed at how good it looked in comparison... but I was only born the year it came out. It just looks frustrating and limited to me. Not one that stands the test of time.
Exceptional animation but an overrated penny (dollar?!) pincher. The blackouts between video segments was very off-putting and I wouldn't be surprised if that's not meant to happen and that there's something wrong with that cab. The game has of course come out on almost everything by now but it's only until the recent console versions that the full experience (apart from the getting poor quickly part!) can be had. Full quality video and custom game modes.Only 20 years Still too expensive though!
The blackouts in the video was TOTALLY normal in the arcades. The laserdisc player had some latency and we are talking 1980s tech here. The blackouts in the home versions aren't there since seek times is instantaneous.
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Yeah, I think you'd be bored after learning the moves. I never played this in the UK, it was a 50p game here where everything else was 10 or 20.
I always thought this game was a better idea "on paper". It just was not fun to play IMO.
What happened to your Popeye machine?
background music, terrible
You were late on the move every time. For the skeleton board is Up, Sword, Up , Sword, Right/Left , Sword. You really should have played the game before filming so you at least complete some boards in succession. I've beat this game so many times I lost count and as for it getting boring, not even friggin close.
Skill issue
Never liked this game, played it once as a kid and wanted my money back. I don't see how you're supposed to even memorize it when it doesnt tell you when/which stuff to press. I liked some other video-based quick time event games such as Road Avenger on the mega-cd, but not ones like dragon's lair that don't give you any chance to play.
Wow I could not watch this video for that horrible music you have in the background why would you play that disgusting music it's so annoying and loud you can't even focus on your words
This game is barely comprehensible as a game.
This seems like an awful game, really.
To each their own. Artistically though, one of the best LOOKING arcade games of the 80s, even if the QTE are frustrating and limiting.