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Dragon's Lair Remastered in HD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the maybe-this-time-i'll-save-daphne dept.

JamesO writes "Digital Leisure has announced the development of Dragon's Lair HD, for release this autumn for the PC. Remastered is usually a term associated with DVD movie release, usually referring to the cleaning up of the film's print. It's not that odd then that the term is being used for what is essentially an interactive cartoon. Dragon's Lair HD promises to do what it says on the tin, offering the original game in true high definition. " I still remember the first time I saw Dragon's Lair in an arcade. I'd love to play it again in HD — in the arcade it was a quarter eater.

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  1. Screenshots and trailer by De+Lemming · · Score: 4, Informative

    As the review doesn't show any graphics, here are a number of screenshots on Digital Leisure's site. Their site also has a trailer here.

  2. Quarter eater by sootman · · Score: 4, Informative

    "...in the arcade it was a quarter eater."

    Sure was. It was the first game I ever saw that was fifty cents a pop.

    And for all those who are complaining about how random the play was, this game had patterns, same as any other game. When you're trying to get past those two spinning Q-Tips, you press the stick when he lunges. In the water, you go towards the lighter stream, etc. Remember kids, this was nineteen eighty freaking three--Dragon's Lair looked WORLDS better than what else was out there. Who cares if the gameplay was less than perfect. Besides, that princess was a piece of ass. (No surprise, I guess: reading the Wikipedia article, the studio couldn't afford a model so they just looked at Playboys. Ha.)

    Gameplay suffered because there was only one laser disc in the system so there was a short blank-screen delay when the scenes switched from the 'setup' to the 'result.'. I heard that Space Ace had two and it would switch back and forth between them with no delay, but reading Wikipedia I see that there were conversion kits to make DL into SA, so who knows--I might be remembering wrong.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Lair
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ace

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  3. Easter Egg - Unlimited Lives by caffeinatedOnline · · Score: 5, Informative

    While holding the joystick up and to the left, hold down the sword button while inserting your quarter. This will give you lives until you finish the game... really use to piss people off when I would do it and die 50 times in the same spot...

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