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Ah yes, the good stuff
this game goes hard. the grandaddy of Dark Souls. so many ways to die
I remember going to an arcade once and they had this game available to play for free. Definitely a good thing, since it wouldve eaten like $10 in quarters if it wasn’t
i was mesmerized by its death loop back in the day
I remember the coin-op
yoooooo
Film
In the 1980s, a film version of Dragon’s Lair was planned, with Alan Dean Foster involved in shaping the story. The project fell apart due to low interest from other studios.[48]
In 2015 and 2016, Bluth and Goldman crowdfunded US$731,172 for a 10-minute teaser for an animated feature-length Dragon’s Lair prequel film, their first feature film since Titan A.E.[9][10][49] Bluth and Goldman have announced that the film will provide more backstory for Dirk and Daphne and that Daphne will show that she is not a “blonde airhead”.[50]
Hey, I guess this is it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcbMN8IaMCEIn March 2020, a live action film adaptation was approved by Netflix after one year of negotiations. Ryan Reynolds was in talks for the lead role. Reynolds, Roy Lee, Trevor Engelson, Bluth, Goldman, and former Bluth collaborator John Pomeroy are producers, with Dan and Kevin Hageman as writers.[51] In June 2025, it was reported that James Bobin is in talks to direct the film, with Reynolds no longer starring but remains attached as a producer.[52]
i don’t think Dragon’s Lair can work as a movie. The interactive aspect is key and it builds its story through modular ludonarrative. There are Hollywood movies that did that successfully - All you need is kill adaptation among the recent ones but these are not the right people for that kind of thing. Now if it is from the makers of The Night Comes for Us - that’s gonna be something.
I finished the teaser. It basically looked like it would turn in to an above-average animated film, but nothing really special. I frankly don’t see the point in making it, as the ideas and motifs are stale as months-old bread.
The interactive aspect is key and it builds its story through modular ludonarrative.
TBH I don’t miss that aspect of the game. It’s simply about memorising the right choices, timed fairly exactingly, with everything wrong leading to a quick death, sometimes with special animation and sometimes not. So, choose-your-own adventure it’s certainly not, and never was. *
* Actually I recall there being some 80’s & 90’s home games like that you could play through Blueray or whatever it was. Where you could make different choices and go down different story paths.
it was rather cutting edge for its era. Games moves far beyond that and modern Dragon’s Lair is basically Dark Souls and I’m mighty fine with that.
