Dragon's Lair for Blu-ray
At least ONE good reason to buy a PlayStation 3. The Register reports: Dragon’s Lair, the now 24-year-old animated video game developed by one-time Disney animator Don Bluth for laserdisc players, is back, remastered for the HD era and now available to buy on Bluth-ray Disc - sorry, Blu-ray Disc.
You will find a Dragons Lair history after the jump.
| 1982 (Early) | Rick Dyer begins developing a game entitled Dragon’s Lair. He employs writers and storyboard artists to assemble a concept for Dirk the Daring, the Magic Castle, a dragon, and a beautiful princess. |
| 1982 (October) | Rick and Cinematronics’ president, Jim Pearce, approach Don Bluth Productions (Don Bluth/Gary Goldman) to become a partner in the creation of this historic laser disc game. |
| 1983 (March) | Dragon’s Lair is the hit of the Chicago Game Convention. |
| 1983 (June) | Tthe first Dragon’s Lair arcade coin-op games ship to arcades across North America (including Canada). The success of Dragon’s Lair breaths new life into the arcade industry and ushers in a new series of games. The title becomes a household name and licenses are granted for lunch boxes, children’s sleepwear, stickers, collector’s cards and board games. In 1984, a TV series is created and airs that same year, then followed by a vast number of video game versions for home entertainment… |
| 1984 | Dragon’s Lair for Coleco Adam (cartridge) |
| 1987 | Dragon’s Lair for Commodore 64 (cassette) |
| 1987 | Dragon’s Lair (Escape From Singe’s Castle) for Commodore 64 (floppy disk) |
| 1989 | Dragon’s Lair for the Commodore Amiga (floppy disk) |
| Dragon’s Lair (Escape From Singe’s Castle) for Commodore Amiga (floppy disk) | |
| 1990 | Dragon’s Lair for Macintosh Plus / SE (floppy disk) |
| Dragon’s Lair for Nintendo NES | |
| Dragon’s Lair for Nintendo Game Boy® | |
| Dragon’s Lair for Atari ST | |
| 1991 | Dragon’s Lair for PC (floppy disk) |
| Dragon’s Lair (Escape from Singe’s Castle) for PC (floppy disk) | |
| 1992 | Dragon’s Lair (Escape from Singe’s Castle) for Macintosh II and LC (floppy disk) |
| Dragon’s Lair (The Curse of Mordroc) for PC (floppy disk) | |
| Dragon’s Lair (The Curse of Mordred) for Macintosh II and LC (floppy disk) | |
| Dragon’s Lair for Nintendo Super NES | |
| 1993 | Dragon’s Lair for Sega CD (CD) |
| Dragon’s Lair for PC (CD-ROM) | |
| Dragon’s Lair for 3DO (CD) | |
| 1994 | Dragon’s Lair for MAC (CD-ROM) |
| Dragon’s Lair for CD-I (CD) | |
| 1995 | Dragon’s Lair for Atari Jaguar |
| 1997 | Dragon’s Lair Deluxe Pack for PC (CD-ROM) |
| Dragon’s Lair DVD-ROM for PC (DVD-ROM) | |
| 1998 | Dragon’s Lair DVD-Video for home DVD players (DVD) |
| 2000 | Dragon’s Lair for Nintendo Game Boy® Color |
| 2001 | Dragon’s Lair Arcade Authentic for PC (CD-ROM) |
| 2002 | Dragon’s Lair 3D for PlayStation®2, Nintendo GameCube™, Xbox™, PC (CD-ROM), MAC |
| April 9th, 2007 | Dragon’s Lair Blu-ray |
Tagged as: blu-ray, games, history, lost+found, movie | Author: Martin Leyrer
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