Worried operators observed slowing numbers after an explosive 1982 and were desperate for a hit. Industry Rescue? Still, the quarters keep rolling in - and the arcade industry cannot be happier.
The players are swapped for the more advanced LD-V1000, which alleviates some, but not all, of the pressure. Long hours and cabinet bumping are hard on the players, leading to unfortunate downtime. The first batch of cabinets shipped a Pioneer PR-7820, a serviceable player that's fine for home use, but hardly ready for the arcades. Dragon's Lair is so popular, the laser disc players inside the cabinet struggle almost as valiantly as Dirk the Daring to keep up with demand. In the mysterious caverns below the castle, your odyssey continues against the awesome forces that oppose your efforts to reach the Dragon's Lair. You control the actions of a daring adventurer, finding his way through the castle of a dark wizard who has enchanted it with treacherous monsters and obstacles. The fantasy adventure where you become a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon.
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And really, how can you not fumble around your pockets for two quarters when you have an attract mode - the demo shown while nobody is actually playing the machine - that bellow this over a full score: Dragon's Lair. Within the first eight months, Dragon's Lair pulls in over $32 million, enticing play after play with its "controllable cartoon" gameplay that is nothing like the other titans of the arcades at the time, like Dig-Dug or Ms. The fifty-cent price of admission does little to dampen enthusiasm. Gamers stand in long lines just to hop on the machine and slash through some Giddy-Goons or negotiate those infernal fire ropes. Dirk's Debut Any concerns are laid to rest when the game finally does debut in arcades. If Dragon's Lair is a failure - perhaps gamers just don't quite "get it" or too many arcade operators balk at the cabinet's $4,000 price tag - the curtain drops and the future of the follow-up game, Space Ace, is brought into question. The animation budget alone is over $1.3 million, and the added expense of the laser disc players and cabinets is hardly chump change. The team is racing against the clock to beat SEGA to the arcades with the first laser disc game. Dragon's Lair took approximately six years to go from concept to cabinet.
I remember seeing a complete, expanded A500 with the Laserdisc player, the DL Laserdisc, and all cables on eBay, and the auction ended at $12,000USD.Įdit: I could buy a refurbished Dragon’s Lair cabinet for that kind of money.Their vision was not without peril, though. In fact, some collectors have sold the Amiga version of Journey to the Lair on eBay in the past, but at extremely high prices. Since Amiga computers cost a small fortune today, the chances of me buying one (after selling my A1200 in 2003), is slim to none, even though its a little easier to find Michtron’s Journey to the Lair package for the Amiga. For me, it would be the idea of owning the equipment and being able to play the Laserdisc on a 16-bit computer like the ST. I'm not sure it's worth that much money to obtain an original laserdisc version especially since I remember the laserdiscs DL games malfunctioned quite a bit IDK these days Dragon's Lair is available on almost every platform with original animation.
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