Dragon's Lair arcade game laserdisc

This is the ENTIRE laserdisc from the 1983 arcade game "Dragon's Lair". This was the first of a wave of games that used laserdiscs with animation rather than computer graphics- while the intent was to create the feeling that you were "playing" the cartoon, it was really just a matter of memorizing the right controls to hit at the right moment. For each level there was only one way to get through it alive- when playing the disc would play the animation, then you had to hit the joystick or "Sword" button when you were supposed to- if you did this correctly the game would beep to tell you that you made a correct move and the disc kept playing. If you made a wrong move, the disc would skip to a scene of the character dying. As you can see here, the 'death' scenes for each level were all grouped at the end of the level.

This disc gets more noisy as it reaches the end- most of my other old laserdiscs are bad at the beginning then clear up by the end. The 2nd side of the disc is also a heavy metal material making the disc heavier than usual, but it plays on all my regular players.

• Game

  • Dragon's Lair - 1983 (YouTube Gaming)

• Category

  • Gaming

• License

  • Standard YouTube License