Yeah... 30 years already!
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Time flies...
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It reminds me this topic
Dragon's Lair and other arcade games...the first timeFew personal anecdotes regarding Dragon's Lair :
- I've never seen so many people around a single cabinet!. When someone 'dared' to try that brand new game, an impressive crowd was forming to watch the brave player! The first day, nobody played it, because the time of a play was so short! We were all waiting for someone else to come and try it, just to figure out what to do and learn the scenes!
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It was the first game at 20 BEF (0.5€), when all the other games cost 10 BEF... but l8ter, it was almost impossible to reach the cabinet... so many people wanted to 'experience' it
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- When I started to be a good player, I remember I played without watching the screen... just to impress the crowd (
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) yeah yeah.. it was my 'John Travolta' moment!
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- At the time, I absolutely had no idea about laser game and other technical stuff! In fact I didn't care at all! All I wanted was to play something very impressive & entertaining... which Dragon's Lair were the most!
- I remember the game was 'out of order' one day... the game was stuck in the 'Blue Screen' boot sequence, waiting for the LD player signal (only those who know the Atari European version figure out what I mean
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) And I remember I asked the operator what's going one with that game? I don't remember what he said...juste something about 'laser'!
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... anyway, already 'troubles' in the 80's... the LD player was clearly the weak spot of that game!
- I discovered Xevious one year after Dragon's Lair. Both games were together side by side... It was my favorite area in the Luna Park. The next year, Xevious was located elsewhere in the room, but close the Dragon's Lair, a new game was there... it was ... SPACE ACE! Hell Yeah!
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- I've almost had an heart attack when I discovered the Amstrad Dragon's Lair port of the game! Because I haven't seen a DL cabinet since many years... just seeing the words "Dragon's Lair" on something I can buy... and play! Ok, that port wasn't terrific, but I liked it! Especially the stages with the same 'game play' than the original game!
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- I had to own an Amiga when a friend showed me the Dragon's Lair teaser of the game on that computer. S P E C T A C U L A R !!!
- I've never met "Dragon's Lair II : timewarp" back in the days in any Arcade... I've partially discovered it on the amiga port... until owning the
real size one, in 2005...
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- On the original box of the Dragon's Lair 2 : 'Escape From Singe's Castle' for Amiga, it was written that if you own also the original Dragon's Lair, you can install both games on an hard drive, and so play the game with random scenes coming from both games... like the original arcade game! I got an hard drive for my Amiga (very expensive at the time), but never be able to make both game working together
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... well, I have so many things in my mind regarding that game... oh yes, a last one... I was so 'in love' with that game than I created a dedicated website and later a board about it
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