April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
238 pages
8h 30m
English
Dana Plank
The attract sequence for Dragon’s Lair (Advanced Microcomputer Systems, 1983) certainly lived up to its name, drawing players in with its movie-trailer-quality visuals and music. After a sparkly, fantastical flourish of harp and glockenspiel, the spectator is swept up in a sequence of Disney-style cel animation with a booming baritone narration promising a “fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight, on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon.” For the first time in video game history, the hero that appeared onscreen was no pixelated abstraction, but a fully animated knight whose ...
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