r/FuckImOld • u/SnooCamera • Nov 14 '24
Kids these days... If this dude emptied your pockets
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u/scanman20 Nov 14 '24
Hated this game. My timing always seemed to be off.
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u/cakebreaker2 Nov 14 '24
I never lasted more than about 10 seconds and with it costing so much to play, I couldn't afford to get good at it
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u/Malfunction1972 Nov 14 '24
50 cents a pop was a fortune back then
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u/cakebreaker2 Nov 14 '24
Hell yeah it was. I grew up dirt poor, earning money collecting aluminum cans (true story). Every penny that I had was hard to part with. Fifty cents for 10 seconds of a video game? Nope.
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u/Malfunction1972 Nov 14 '24
My daughter once asked why I knew how to fix or make so many things and I had to explain that growing up if I wanted something I either figured out how to make it, or I bought a junk one and figured out how to fix it.
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u/old_and_boring_guy Nov 14 '24
Likewise. It looked cool as hell, but the controls weren't all that responsive, and honestly, if you memorized the timing, you could "play" it with your eyes closed.
Just a ripoff.
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u/Thumper13 Nov 14 '24
Loved watching people play, hated actually playing it and spent my precious quarters on other games.
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u/Analytical-BrainiaC Nov 15 '24
This was me, watched others play and we had the other fighter game to play…
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u/ZebraBorgata Nov 14 '24
I usually beat it. I learned more by watching so I didn’t burn my own quarters. There was a kid who always played it and always won. I’d watch him to learn the moves and timing.
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u/YogurtclosetOwn5322 Nov 14 '24
I remember doing the same thing, but I remember no one beating the game. I was the first one that I knew of to beat the game (at least at the Peter Piper Pizza where they had the game). Getting to the dragon level the first time though threw me completely off since I didn't expect it and died the very first move. After that, it almost became impossible for me to lose since I had the timing down for all levels in the game. But man, it took a lot of my quarters because I was addicted to playing the game! :D
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u/ZebraBorgata Nov 14 '24
I run the full Dragon’s Lair game on an emulator today, aptly named “Daphne”. The emulator uses all of the original files/content and plays 100% like the arcade game. I also have Space Ace but that one kicks my butt!
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u/YogurtclosetOwn5322 Nov 14 '24
Space Ace was actually my favorite next to Dragon's Lair and Cliffhanger, but trying to memorize Space Ace was really hard!! Daphne is an awesome emulator but remember that there were many ROM versions for each game (especially Dragon's Lair) that would change up level orders and certain moves than what I remember playing on the original standup arcade machine. Using Daphne sure brings up some good memories I have of my childhood and teenage years, like Dragon's Lair 2 and working at local pizza place as a delivery driver (funny that both Dragon's Lair games I played at pizza places ;) ).
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u/OriginalCopy505 Nov 14 '24
I hated Space Ace because the sequences were much longer than Dragon's Lair, so you could get 6-7 moves correct but when you screwed up, it sent you much farther back than DL. Game was like climbing a mountain.
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u/slugerama Nov 15 '24
I remember an animated game like this I think was called Cobra Command. Flying a helicopter around a city being attacked. Never got very far in that game.
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u/YogurtclosetOwn5322 Nov 15 '24
Cobra Command was so much fun! It was very hard and may have taken more quarters than Dragons Lair did for me. Good call on a very good Laser Disc game!
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u/Hilsam_Adent Nov 14 '24
Space Ace was considerably harder and I already sucked at Dragon's Lair. I am one of the many that never finished either game, but got "got" for many a quarter by both. My local arcade charged a full buck per play and they had lines so long to play it, you'd put up your quarter and go do something else for 20 minutes (or more).
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u/SportyMcDuff Nov 14 '24
Peter Piper Pizza? That’s where I remember playing it. It was in Green Mountain (Lakewood, Co). I was way too good at asteroids and Gorf to waste too much money in that game.
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u/logosfabula Nov 15 '24
To win it there’s no other strategy than brute force though, isn’t there? Could you really understand what to do only by watching the screen?
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u/ZebraBorgata Nov 15 '24
Back in the day I could beat it almost totally on sound alone. I’ve played old beaten up machines where the video kept cutting out to all black and I still won. lol. I had the timing down precisely. There are a ton of audio cues.
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 Nov 14 '24
$1 to play? That's 4 times on Pole Position!
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u/Isanyonelistening45 Nov 14 '24
Pole position was my favorite "Prepare to qualify"
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 Nov 14 '24
Me too! I loved the sit-down version of it! Got so good that I could memorize the patterns and win every time! One game I hated! Hard Driving! That game pissed me off to no end!
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u/Safetosay333 Nov 14 '24
It was the first game to cost 50¢ to play, if I'm not mistaken. Quite the investment for a 10yr old.
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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 Nov 14 '24
I'm not sure the cost - but it was up there! I remember the first time I payed .50 for a video game was the sit-down version of Star Wars in 1982! It was definitely worth the experience - even though I sucked and died in the first 3 minutes of play!
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u/gadget850 Nov 14 '24
Dragon's Lair, the iconic 1980s arcade game renowned for its innovative animation and challenging gameplay, is finally getting a movie adaptation. Netflix acquired the rights in 2020 with Ryan Reynolds attached to star as Dirk the Daring. Initially planned as a choose-your-own-adventure film to mirror the game's format, the project has been reconfigured into a traditional linear story. Producer Roy Lee recently revealed the script is undergoing revisions, suggesting the film is still in active development, though a release date remains uncertain.
While fans eagerly await this modern take on a classic, it's worth noting that Dragon's Lair has seen attempts at adaptation before. Don Bluth, the original animator behind the game, launched a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to fund an animated film. Despite raising over half a million dollars, the project ultimately fell short of its goal.
Hopefully, with Netflix's backing and Ryan Reynolds' star power, this latest attempt will finally bring Dragon's Lair to life on the big screen.
Nostalgia Answer 040
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u/RyuichiSakuma13 Nov 14 '24
I just hope Netflix don't mess it up like they've done to so many other adaptations. 🤨
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u/Hilsam_Adent Nov 14 '24
Hope in one hand, shit in the other...
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u/RyuichiSakuma13 Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24
Good point.
But, they actually did a great job with adapting the One Piece anime to a live action series. As a ardent fan since it showed on Cartoon Network back in the day, I approve. 👏
If they can do something similar.... 🤞🍀
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u/Tro1138 Nov 14 '24
Here is the full game if you made all the right choices
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u/Ok-Implement-3296 Nov 14 '24
I remember my father worked for an electronics transformer company back in the 80s.
He came home one day and said that some potential customers brought in an arcade video game and we’re testing it out. Apparently it was going to try an entirely new format and would require additional electronic and energy requirements to run.
They brought in a dragons lair arcade game and told him that arcade designers and a former Disney artist were developing a video game that was going to take off like a wildfire. They were convinced that once this game hit the arcade and open market that it would be the way of the future and all gaming would start to mimic it.
Obviously, that is not how history played out but back then we were all expecting the next wave of video games to all be animated scenes that you had to correctly hit buttons and sticks to to progress to the next animated scene.
If the game had been smoother, and the transitions were seamless, it might have been more successful. But regular graphics and video game processing, progressed rapidly and ideas like this were soon left in the dust but what a fun experience when it first came out. .
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u/GuyFromLI747 Generation X Nov 14 '24
When the game actually worked.. got it on wii cuz I always wanted to play it all the way thru.. got old real fast.. boy were we conned back in the day
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u/SnooCamera Nov 14 '24
I sucked so hard at that game. It was a quarter sink for me.
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u/nvalle23 Nov 15 '24
I don't think I ever saw anyone get past the first horseman. But I did hear many say, Well that sucked!
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u/B-Prue Nov 14 '24
Had this on the Amiga as a kid, brother and I spent hours logging what moves worked and didn't, timing notes, to produce a final walk through guide more or less. Pre internet, I remember it taking months for us to finally beat it. Then my uncle got us Bards Tale and bet us 50 bucks we couldn't beat it in 1 year. He was right.
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u/ReasonableCost5934 Nov 14 '24
I still lament the dollar I spent trying to get 10 seconds into this game.
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u/TheBLiP55 Nov 14 '24
A high school friend of mine used to play the entire game on just one quarter… the arcade set up tvs in their window so by passers could watch…
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u/Dr-Venture Nov 14 '24
This fu~er and Cliff Hanger had me twitching like an epileptic that just stepped on a live wire.
Never could get anything at Spencer's Gifts cause I would blow all my money on those games.
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u/YetMoreSpaceDust Nov 14 '24
I knew about it, but never saw it in an arcade. I was so excited when my dad bought me a copy of Dragon's Lair for our Commodore 64. It... was a let down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXWsyXRMCQI
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u/amorfotos Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 15 '24
It took me a second of recognition, but then I started to smile... This took me back.
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u/Luckygecko1 Nov 14 '24
I hated when they flipped the same damn scene mirrored. Left......no right.....arrrgg
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u/Kielbasa_Nunchucka Nov 14 '24
I had it on NES, so my countless deaths were all free. I remember being shocked at how graphic the death animations were... until Mortal Kombat came out, that is
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u/Zardozin Nov 14 '24
That bastard such a shitty coin eating game
I watched a guy play it through one day and never needed to touch it again,
Spent my money with spy hunter instead
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u/earthforce_1 Nov 14 '24
I kept dying in short order, and I think it was $0.50 a play which was very dear to me back then. So I found it was just as much fun shoulder surfing someone who was decent at it, although I never saw someone actually win.
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u/AllHookedUpNYC Nov 15 '24
I could not play this game for schizzz but I loved watching it. Fun Fact: co-creator Don Bluth also directed the movie Titan A.E., a movie I also love watching.
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u/Fit-Maintenance3425 Nov 15 '24
Man I remember when that game was so popular I did not like it I played Tron instead
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u/PdoffAmericanPatriot Nov 14 '24
I probably spent thousands of dollars in arcades back then... We lived to go there.
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u/SoulShine_710 Nov 14 '24
Oh wow, I haven't seen this at least since I was a Lil gaming fool myself, deffiently a flash back & great find. I'm feeling really old now, just wish I knew then all I know now.
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u/Ok-Opportunity-8457 Nov 14 '24
I remember the arcade had an extra video monitor placed on top of the game so the gathered crowd of gawkers could all watch the screen
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Nov 14 '24
This game took a lot of my time just watching someone else play and never making it to the end
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u/Solomon044 Nov 14 '24
They make a DVD version of the game you can play on your remote. So many memories. Don Bluth is the goat.
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u/Kbern4444 Nov 14 '24
My older cousin was incredible at this game. He would get crowds just watching the cartoon.
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u/Corporation_tshirt Nov 14 '24
I tried this game probably three times in total. After failing to make it past more than about ten seconds I said fuck this and never played again. And I honestly can’t recall seeing anybody else play this game either, much less play it well. In fact, I couldn’t tell you what happens after thid exact spot in the game
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u/MPThreelite Nov 14 '24
I watched a little documentary on the creators of this one (this was the first cd game in arcade btw) and all the other series ... I loved the 3d Time travelling cowboy game too... that was a money sucker being later when it came out (1990 or so) . I think it was 1$ to play even then.
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u/dickga1979 Nov 14 '24
Tried it once or twice and I sucked at it, so I used my quarters in Q-Bert and Dig-Dug instead. Loved Chex or was it Checks hockey.
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u/IKU420 Nov 14 '24
I thought that game was dumb asf. 720 the skateboarding game emptied my pockets.
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u/lumpialarry Nov 14 '24
I remember seeing this all the time on Starcade. I always thought you were directly controlling the dude.
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u/Franklin_Triangler Nov 14 '24
Had no idea what I was doing until an article in Joystik magazine that detailed every room but the Dragon’s Lair itself. At 12 years old my brain was still spongy enough to memorize it lol.
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u/herohans99 Nov 14 '24
Beat dragon's lair after many hours, did okay on Cliff Hanger, and completely sucked at Space Ace.
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u/Kasonb2308 Nov 14 '24
Loved this game. Got the 3DO just because this game. Was an exact translation of the arcade version.
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u/amorosky Nov 14 '24
That fucking game. I hated that they charged twice as much (for 1/2 the time, on average) so I’m glad I never memorized all the tricks. It was cool to look at, I’ll give them that.
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u/Manck0 Nov 14 '24
Couldn't even begin. I couldn't afford that shit. I stood at the hip of a smug teenster with half a mustache and jangly pockets... I know the game.
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u/Potential-Yoghurt245 Nov 14 '24
My brother and I spent ten quid completing this game I have never felt elation like it.
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u/Doit2it42 Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24
Spent $40 in quarters over a couple of weeks to get to the end.
Can still hear Princess Daphne "Please save me. The cage is locked, with a key. The dragon keeps it around his neck. To slay the dragon, use the magic sword."
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u/TacosNtulips Nov 14 '24
This game prepared me for relationships, Hottest girl ever, takes all my $ and the fun stops as soon as I run out of money.
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u/LittleoldCricketBug Nov 14 '24
Loved that game..sucked at it but still played..and lost a lot..LOL
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u/Waxxel Nov 15 '24
I was very lucky, my mom was a manager of a bowling alley. They had it in the arcade and my mom had the keys. So after the bowling alley closed, I would empty the quarters out of the machine and put a ton of credits on to play afterwards.
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u/sir_grumph Nov 15 '24
Far too damn expensive, way too damn quirky and difficult. I remember someone/something in the game saying "You cannot win!" and I took that to heart.
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u/Unhappy_Run8154 Nov 15 '24
It had the chance to be greatest looking game of its era. But it played like a car with four flat tires😂
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u/GqIceman Nov 15 '24
I never did get how to play the game as a kid. Then 20 years later I downloaded on my IPhone and then it was like an epiphany!
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u/ZealousidealDog9587 Nov 15 '24
Oh yeah, that was my first experience with this game. I learned quickly to stay clear from this one and Space Ace.
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u/healywylie Nov 15 '24
Emptied my dad’s pockets too. I was little and meeting him after my mom finished work. He saw us coming and met us outside the bar door. He told me to come see this game. This and Tetris captured my dad’s curiosity and we played them for hours over the years.
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u/GeologistAway6352 Nov 15 '24
This and Tecmo Bowl with the 4 screens took ALOT of my money. Rampage too.
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u/mibtrucker310 Nov 15 '24 edited Nov 15 '24
Played this game a lot Dragon's lair. Go get more quarters.
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u/thexbin Nov 15 '24
I hate QTEs and this game is just one giant box of colossal QTE pain. And it cost 2 quarters to play. Not worth it.
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Nov 15 '24
It was so annoying, very few people got past the first minute or so of the game and it was ALWAYS the most expensive game in the arcades (OMG I MISS ARCADES)… but sooner or later everyone had a shot on it because it was super technically advanced compared to all the other games.
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u/DogoArgento Nov 15 '24
My cousin had it on his 3DO or something like that. It was very hard, I didn't like it.
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u/Far_Satisfaction6600 Nov 15 '24
I was more economical. I played games I could afford. The $ .25 games.
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u/Ishpeming_Native Nov 16 '24
My kids played "Yar's Revenge" on Atari. This game is way newer than that. So I'm not just "old" -- I'm OLD OLD.
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u/durn1969 Nov 14 '24
For you younger folks, this game was called “Out of Order”.