PERFECT DRAGON'S LAIR PLAYTHROUGH [NO DEATHS] [MOVE GUIDE DISABLED]

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In the vibrant Spring of 1983, Dragon's Lair, a laser-disc arcade videogame created by Rick Dyer and Don Bluth, revolutionized the gaming industry with its beautifully hand-drawn Disney-esque graphics, clear sound, innovative gameplay, and unique design choice of using the medium of gaming to bring players an interactive movie experience. It is also worth noting that this title invented the convention of quick-time events, which has become commonplace in many modern games. Being released in an era of gaming where 8-bit graphics were the standard, it should be a surprise to no one that it became an instant classic among gamers and singlehandedly pioneered the usage of laser-disc technology for games. Therefore, I firmly believe Dragon's Lair is one of the most impactful titles for the gaming industry and is worth anyone who admires video games from an artistic perspective's time and respect.
I hope you enjoy watching my video, especially since it took me some time to get a perfect run, and I thank you for taking the time out of your day to read my description!
Game: store.steampowered.com/app/22...
Fun Fact: I used an artificial intelligence upscaling program to upscale the Dragon's Lair introduction video to 1080p. Pretty neat, huh?

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@fdeadlycommasir 2 ай бұрын

I remember playing this once in my local arcade. It was 1983 & it cost $1.00 to play. I was terrible at it. Thanks for the upload. Now I finally got to see how it ended.

@djchuckone1 2 ай бұрын

you're not alone yo. on all points 🍻

@RichStone 3 ай бұрын

Seeing this next to Pac Man and Donkey Kong in arcades in the 80's was mind blowing

@lincruste 3 ай бұрын

and wallet-blowing too

@yomamagaming6736 2 ай бұрын

This game needs another remake with today's tech. It doesn't need it, just want to see more like it.

@cv7245 2 ай бұрын

@@lincruste exactly! You must press A - oh, i'm sorry, you lose. It looked good, but it was a terrible game.

@SuperHammaren 2 ай бұрын

@@cv7245 I presume standing behind one that know how to must have and just watch must have been the best :)

@ABQSentinel 2 ай бұрын

I remember this game in the arcade. I dropped more than a few quarters trying to make my way through. Sadly, if this game were made today, Princess Daphne would be a fugIy, overweight, blue-haired character with neck and chest tattoos and a face full of piercings. You know... made for "modern audiences."

@taepark5330 2 ай бұрын

The mountain of quarters fed into this game was astounding. 😢

@Kiltedbear 2 ай бұрын

One of my favorites growing up. Even in my young adulthood I was traveling and had to pop into a random mall and spied an arcade. It was relatively slow and I was going to stroll past until I spied a DL cabinet inside. It had been a little while since I had played it and by that time it had been out maybe about 6 years? I said why not. I put 50 cents in. I think that's how much it was at the time. No screw ups cause no more change. By the time I saved Daphne I had about 8 kids roughly aged 8 to 13 wide eyed cheering and clapping. One asked me how I did that on one go. I said "practice". Lol

@chrisbanbury 2 ай бұрын

How long are the time windows for a correct selection?

@ryadinstormblessed8308 2 ай бұрын

This game was so heartbreaking as a kid in the arcade. You see this spectacular animation unlike any game you've ever played, see that it costs $1 per play (which was a lot more back then, when most games cost a quarter, and some even a nickel, hype yourself up to fork out that much because it looks so amazing and it's gonna totally be worth it... and then die at the very beginning and lose all hope of ever getting to see the rest of the game.

@lepterfirefall 3 ай бұрын

Didn't realise there was SOOO much repetition in traps

@spencereades 3 ай бұрын

To be fair, most of us didn't get far enough in the game to see the traps repeat themselves 😔

@technopoptart 3 ай бұрын

@@spencereades yeah x''D i never even knew there _was_ repetition. until today

@stiimuli 2 ай бұрын

and animations

@drewneedsmoresleep6680 2 ай бұрын

I would have freaked out thinking I got turned around or something.

@TwippyTwilight 2 ай бұрын

Twice is a lot???

@solardisk3 2 ай бұрын

I just remember two things about this game, it was insanely hard and that I was rarely willing to piss away four plays of something else in order to play it. I didn't have that kind of pocket jingle.

@fishjones4618 2 ай бұрын

I imagine the sight of Princess Daphne awakened many young boys. Myself included.

@kevhead1525 2 ай бұрын

Only to get to her you'd have to spend 6 years worth of allowances.

@sbkscuify 2 ай бұрын

@fishjones4618 without a doubt! I'm with you on this.

@converter42 2 ай бұрын

@@kevhead1525just like the real thing

@kevhead1525 2 ай бұрын

@@converter42 lol

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight 2 ай бұрын

Ooooh! Might be some of the earliest cartoon porn(ish) content ever blatantly put in front of kids.

@mug9468 2 ай бұрын

I was amazed by the animation of this game. I also sucked at it. I played it on Amiga and it was 5 floppies, which was huge. No need to say, I didn't need the second disk ever, because the game was impossible. So, it seems it's like this ten minute game ruined my many days. Now one part of me is complete. Thank you.

@TanukiDigital 2 ай бұрын

This brings back fond memories of all the quarters I wasted on this sadistic game. :D

@daliOtter 2 ай бұрын

fond memories? this game was a nightmare! those f'ing swinging clubs ended so many of my attempts, and if i did get through them it was pure luck.

@DeanMurphyCDM Жыл бұрын

Hard to comprehend that I played this 40 years ago. Fun fact - to obtain the highest possible score meant to complete a perfect run but fail the killing blow on the dragon and respawn three times then kill it on your last life :)

@blt6900 2 ай бұрын

Yes, and the score ends up being 432,000 I did it once

@jerrytorres4787 2 ай бұрын

@@blt6900 i did it too at local arcade but it had slightly higher score it had 5 lives.

@daliOtter 2 ай бұрын

there's a dragon, huh I never got that far lol

@culcune 2 ай бұрын

I was friends with Gary Goldman's son, Kip, and they had the full-size arcade game in their garage. I played it for darn near a year, but could NEVER win, lol. No cheat codes back in the early 80s, lol. I have kept in touch with both of them, and I understand Gary and Don Bluth have been working on a film (done in the old-school animation way) for this game as their last movie hurrah.

@michaelpatrick5224 2 ай бұрын

You all were way better at this than I. I never could figure this game out. The movement was too quirky for me. I tried so many times and could not figure out how to move the character in any way that made sense. Every time I saw the machine, I would think that maybe this time it was different. It just wasn't worth the money to me.

@chrisg8767 2 ай бұрын

The movie theater in our local mall was right across from the arcade, and the owner of the arcade had the presence of mind to put Dragon's Lair right by the entrance with a second monitor so that the people waiting in line for tickets could watch people play. Drew a LOT of business into the arcade.

@matsujonen 3 ай бұрын

Princess Daphne made me a man

@GregoryD-if5xg 2 ай бұрын

Most likely not

@AdNauseamart 2 ай бұрын

did you paint her face on your hand

@jaredmitchell9202 2 ай бұрын

Im 47 and I remember my older brother and me dropping so many tokens in this game at the arcade. Such good times.

@mokahtgs 2 ай бұрын

the fact that he did not enter a s s for the new high score is a crime.

@FreezerBurn. 4 ай бұрын

This game kept me broke as a youth....and never keep a magical item that can kill you close to you!😁

@Thornbloom 3 ай бұрын

Uh no that's exactly where you keep it if you can't destroy it. Less chance of so.eone handing it off to the first knight to come after you.

@manxdarcqpaw744 2 ай бұрын

Dragon should have put it in the glass cage with Daphne.

@David-pi9lb 2 ай бұрын

Probably the first quicktime event.

@Lightbringer-777 2 ай бұрын

Mannn... The number of quarters that people must have burnt through trying to beat this in arcades must have been insane.

@OhNoNotAgain42 2 ай бұрын

Yes. It was endless. I probably could have gone to college if not for this game.

@briandavidgregory 2 ай бұрын

I have nightmares about this game laced with millions of quarters.

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight 2 ай бұрын

Thank God for MAME.

@Koexistence13 3 ай бұрын

Clear sound and picture. Nice. 1984 on a restaurant next to our hotel in anaheim had this and it ate me alive and took my money

@markholle3450 2 ай бұрын

No Deaths? No fun. Some of the best animation and humor is in dying.

@lukecwolf 3 ай бұрын

Props to those precise button presses and no pauses. I'm still nervous of so many button prompts and the chance of a hardware issues I'd never be able to do this so well or press only once

@SuperHammaren 3 ай бұрын

People used to "donkey kong" graphics must have been mind blown!!

@MissMyMusicAddiction 2 ай бұрын

it was on a laserdisc. everything was crap, by comparison.

@TheToekutter 2 ай бұрын

This version seems MUCH more forgiving than the arcade version I played in the 80s.

@NemeanLion- 4 ай бұрын

Imagine trying to live in that castle.

@Mikewee777 3 ай бұрын

OSHA and 12 other agencies have already condemned it .

@XX-sp3tt 3 ай бұрын

I imagine it was reshaping itself to give Dirk the worst time imaginable.

@upstate-.-alien 2 ай бұрын

Imagine seeing this at the arcade for the first time. 😊

@lannyhelton9287 2 ай бұрын

Finding the bathroom would certainly be an adventure.

@NemeanLion- 2 ай бұрын

@@upstate-.-alien I did. Kids who won it were treated like celebrities.

@evlkenevl2721 2 ай бұрын

I'll never forget being a kid, seeing this game for the first time. I knew it was beyond my abilities (and finances), but I just stood there thinking "How did they DO this?!" It stood next to Pac-Man, Defender, Donkey Kong, etc., while Space Invaders, Asteroids and even Pong were still arcade staples.

@chriswilliams7601 2 ай бұрын

Great stuff!!

@ssaraccoii 2 ай бұрын

The original arcade game used a multi-track laser disk, so every move you made, the screen went black for a half-second before you found out your fate. It was cool!

@cosmicraysshotsintothelight 2 ай бұрын

A CAV encoded Laser Disc has 54,000 individual tracks that represent a single frame of 30 fps video. For use in a video game a special interface port is added that allows a programmed computer to step the disc to a specific frame. In the game, it plays back that one frame as a still unless it is playing a short piece of the game's animated segments, in which case several frames get "played" into the video graphics card of the CRT being used. When a player makes a choice, the frame (or frames) that choice triggers get transitioned to by the laser head across the disc and the playback begins or the single frame is displayed. In hard drive parlance, we refer to that "head transition time" with a latency number. This is why hard drives got smaller and smaller. Physical transitions take time. A 12" Laser Disc is a fairly big span to cross. My first LD player, which came from a Mach III BTW, had a HeNe 8" tube laser bench inside it, and the focus head looked like they pulled a magnet off the back of a big woofer for it. They were not interested in fast access times then. Oddly, I had a NASA disc that had a 40k ft Lear Jet fly over set of snapshots of every major city in the US. A really rare CAV disc. Now, I can get super high res shots from above and even street level shots all thanks to Google Earth. I wish I had all that money back, but I would have missed all of those experiences I had years before others did.

@Dulcimerist 2 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this in the arcade of W.C. Frank in Mason City, Iowa about 40 years ago. I watched people play it, and was so confused as to how it worked. The Atari 2600 was the standard home video game system at the time, and the arcade games were mostly static 2D. (Zaxxon was an exception, being a 3D view.) I had no idea how controlling a "cartoon" worked for a game. Even after watching Dragon's Lair here, I'm still confused as to how it worked.

@rmerrida 2 ай бұрын

Man, I remember doing this way back in the day. It was so popular just to watch, there was a second monitor on top of the console for all to see. I'd draw a huge crowd once people realized I had no deaths and looked like I was going to finish. Lots of players never got to see the end...or Daphne. So yeah, huge crowd. I saw the end scene so many times I'd just turn, move out the way to the back of the crowd, and just watch them watching my end game scene. 😎 Thanks man. This brought back some great memories.

@zepolant 2 ай бұрын

Been a LONG time since I've thought of this game. I could only get pass the first two levels or so as a kid. Thanks for sharing this! Brought back great memories!

@FrancoPiani-mp9su 3 ай бұрын

I finished this game at 9 in arcade of Rimini Italy. All the bigger looked at me, when I was going to play

@markzed66 2 ай бұрын

Great memories. Well done on the clean run through.👍

@marioyungblood 3 ай бұрын

Awesome Vid Brotha👊 that took so many quarters back in da day just to beat it...... #GoodTimes ps: Go Raiders!

@michianabaddriversin4690 2 ай бұрын

Brings back memories

@williamlarson9091 2 ай бұрын

I remember playing this game in the arcade when I was 20! Very fun!

@RetroJack 4 ай бұрын

Amazing to consider that this was once considered the future of videogames!

@realrealqbok 3 ай бұрын

too bad microtransactions won

@newguy90 3 ай бұрын

To be fair, this type of gaming spawned the dreaded "Quicktime Event". In that sense, it was the future.

@DavidBrown-bs7gg 2 ай бұрын

Props to animator/artist Don Bluth for these amazing graphics. He also did Space Ace. This game was £1 in the UK when other arcade games were 10p.

@TeddGCM 2 ай бұрын

Wow, this brings back memories! The amount of money I spent on this thing and never could get past the first few levels, much less beat the dang thing. I should have stuck to Paperboy!

@henrick589 3 ай бұрын

I find it to be inspiring for some future Zelda games. There is something in the creatures, traps and puzzles that makes think about it.

@ChronoLegend99 3 ай бұрын

My favorite arcade game of all time

@Slinginghotlead007 2 ай бұрын

I loved this game. And Space Ace.

@gregbanks5624 2 ай бұрын

40 years later I (er, you....) finally finish it. Thanks for taking all my money. Talking to you Showbiz in Fayetteville, NC....

@Valen213 Ай бұрын

That looks like it must have been a major pain to complete without dying. I didn't realize there were so many repetitive areas. Just when you think you're done with something, you have to go through it again later. Thanks for doing this because I never could. I tried many times.

@darrin777 3 ай бұрын

That must be a sick game of pong Dirk is playing while fighting for his life.

@Baekstrom 3 ай бұрын

He sounds a lot like Homer Simpson.

@JoelAntoinette 4 ай бұрын

To all the Gen Xers that got ripped off by this horrible arcade game, to get that last $1.25 from you, I am here to tell you that you are not alone

@scottl.1568 3 ай бұрын

Co-signed

@kevinmccubbin2385 2 ай бұрын

I was 10 when it came out... I couldn't afford to play it thats for sure!

@JoelAntoinette 2 ай бұрын

@@kevinmccubbin2385 I was about the same age and $1.25 had some weight to it back then, I played the game once and it lasted maybe 3 mins

@rikk319 2 ай бұрын

It's not the first or last time t&a has been used to make money :P

@G.B.B. 2 ай бұрын

I wasted so much money on this game in '83...my God it was hard (then). I'd still fail. Thanks for the video.

@sarahstock3293 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@namco003 2 ай бұрын

My favorite machine. I own two. One I built and one I need to restore. I'm an arcade tech, i'm sure it's because of this game i've been fixing them for 30 years

@akoww1000 3 ай бұрын

The game is way easier today unless you play it on an original Arcade machine. My Wife bought me the DVD game of it around 20 years ago, it was too easy compared to the AM version. When it was released my local 7-11 got one in even before the local arcade got one lol, but they would have a line going out the door to play it. They added a 2nd monitor to it and people would stand around watching others play. My sister's BF worked there and would have to empty the machine almost daily

@user-ib9qt8vl9h 2 ай бұрын

Really the only arcade game of it's kind, like playing a cool cartoon.👍👍

@danistheguy 2 ай бұрын

Quick time events but you have no idea what button to press or when lol

@obiiWan7 Жыл бұрын

5:50 room I have trouble with

@daviddrift7663 2 ай бұрын

I must have spent a mountain of cash on this in the arcade when I was a kid. Never actually finished it. I kind of holds up well as a piece of classic gaming history. ❤

@CRYPTID-COMMON-SENSE11 2 ай бұрын

Love this game..I have the trilogy box set of all 3. This was the first game in the 80's I beat. My buddy could do it blind folded by listening to the sounds alone. Also i'll tell ya a trick on how to beat the black knight on the checkerboard floor...Simply take the joystick and move it in circle pattern and Dirk will jump to the appropriate squares...I have more tricks If I remember them i'll post them but looks like you have it down . Also you can tell which way to go by what side his sword is hanging on....Thanks for posting.

@RetiredVDI 2 ай бұрын

I could play this game straight through with no deaths in 1983. It was simply memorizing the moves.

@williamanderson3185 2 ай бұрын

I dropped a lot of quarters on this game. I mastered the perfect play through, used to do it just to impress the on-lookers.

@geoffreyrichie7330 2 ай бұрын

In the late '80's I used to watch a guy do perfect playthroughs of this one and Space Ace, and score really high at pinball. It was at the Space Station in Anchorage, AK.

@scottguffey2455 2 ай бұрын

I remember this at my local Show-Biz Pizza place in Huntsville, Al. You could play almost ALL the other games for either $0.25 or $0.50 worth of tokens... 1 or 2 respectively, but it cost you a WHOPPING $5.00 a wack to attempt to play Dragon's Lair back in the day. There where some scummy type people to allow them to charge THAT much money just for one shot at the game, but I tried it just ONCE because my mom and dad didn't agree with that highway robbery. My favorite one to play was a sit-down style cabinet of Star Wars they had, it was fun and easy to beat. I was amazed by the digital sound of hearing OB1- Kenobe as it was typed PHONETICALLY back when Star Wars figures first came out for Kenner. Hearing Obiwan and Han Solo in my ears as the Death Star blew to smithereens made my day.

@dondunco2538 2 ай бұрын

The Show-Biz owners in Springfield, Ohio only charged $.25 just like every other video game. Coz they knew kids would spend themselves broke on it and then ask Mom and Dad for just another dollar to play it.

@yomamagaming6736 2 ай бұрын

@BSDShoes 2 ай бұрын

I lived a couple blocks from an arcade place in the 80s and I played this game A LOT, I was terrible at it. lol

@sharkbaitj 3 ай бұрын

Gimme back my Tokens!!!!

@bossmodl3thalpoppa484 2 ай бұрын

I remember when this released at the arcade…one of the 1st to cost .50 a play

@MisterLobb 2 ай бұрын

Nice job with the upgrade resolution (see description) on the intro

@stephanerivard4518 2 ай бұрын

Yep, remember that game very well, a friend and me had the top 10 places on it, need to die at the right spot to get the most points. It was a good memory game🤣

@DonMachado 2 ай бұрын

I got a certificate from my local arcade when I completed a perfect game. I don't think I ever played it again after that. lol

@mikekifer1665 2 ай бұрын

Slaying that dragon like that, they got it from sleeping beauty!

@rikk319 2 ай бұрын

Don Bluth started at Disney and worked on Sleeping Beauty, so no surprise.

@johansoderberg4211 2 ай бұрын

I played this on arcade back when i was a kid

@CSXIV 3 ай бұрын

Sword gets stolen. Chases some gold bag with his sword. Can clearly see the hilt of his sword from his scabbard, implying that he still has his sword.

@charlesmurphy1840 2 ай бұрын

Little did we know back then that all games would end up like this .its basically just a walk through movie like all games now..back then these graphics were just mind shattering ..playing this in the arcade and then going home to Atari just didn’t seem right

@timothyarnold1679 2 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, Princess Daphne.

@fishjones4618 2 ай бұрын

Ya know, Don Bluth is still alive and, if you’ve seen Netflix’s Santa Claus origin movie Klaus, there’s still artists doing high quality, hand drawn 2D animation out there. He should make a full length movie, using a handful of the game sequences, but making a vast majority of it new. And keeping all the blood spurting kills. 1983 me was taken aback seeing creatures sliced with their entrails in full view. The 80’s were awesome to be a kid!

@rikk319 2 ай бұрын

That and a lot more of Princess Daphne. That outfit was top notch for her curves.

@wbrucesimpson 2 ай бұрын

i hated this game...because it gobbled my quarters, $$$... but thanks to you i finally got to see it all.

@davidcelliott 2 ай бұрын

I played this a few times when it came out, but I never got far with it. When the first Windows PC version came out, I remember trying to play it. There was a bug in the first version that made it impossible to get very far (3 or 4 moves). Because early PC video was erratic, they would "optimize" the video. The result was that on some machines, the places where you had to make the moves were optimized out of the video so you could not possible hit the button at the right time. They fixed it later, but by then the damage was done.

@CyberFoxy87 2 ай бұрын

At the arcades if you wasn't good at the game it got costly in quarters Very good game .. I got it awhile back on game system

@Postmortumaz 2 ай бұрын

This and Space Ace.

@steveramundo4946 2 ай бұрын

I remember this game fondly....Really sucked at it and it was 75 cents to play.... So I could never get good.... What a simpler - better time

@SpreadingtheMuse 3 ай бұрын

Always wondered if you could play the game in the order that the rooms would actually be in. The blue rooms on the first floor...the yellow rooms beneath that...the caverns waaaay at the bottom.

@kevhead1525 2 ай бұрын

The quarter devourer

@OM-sb2bd 2 ай бұрын

Pretty much IMPOSSIBLE !!

@user-zs4mh3dx5p 2 ай бұрын

The carpenters and stone masons in this castle must make a small fortune.

@MeR-md1jq 2 ай бұрын

I remember when this game came out it cost $1 to play while every other game was only a quarter. There was still always a line to play

@justinschraeder8924 2 ай бұрын

The OG of QTE.

@djb6313 2 ай бұрын

This would be4 great as a vr redo with the player playing as they are from dirks perspective.

@GordonGartrell27 2 ай бұрын

This game owes reparations

@brandonp7503 3 ай бұрын

Given the amount of revenue this game generated, you'd think they could've afforded a full twelve minutes of animation on a perfect playthrough, lol. These machines devoured money like something living in a dragon's lair.

@kevlarvest7375 2 ай бұрын

It's all about sequence. To prove to my dad how easy this game was, not only did I beat the game flawlessly, I did it facing away from the screen... I'm 93% sure I had the controller behind my back for extra exaggeration. Memory is key.

@greenlanternjedi 2 ай бұрын

First time I saw this game I couldn't believe that Daphne was allowed in a place where kids hung out.

@rikk319 2 ай бұрын

There weren't enough people who got to the end to really make it a thing...besides, those kinds of parents were too busy trying to tar and feather Dungeons & Dragons to notice that Princess Daphne was stealing our innocence :P