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Dragon’s Lair (SNES)

Made by the same company as the NES version, this game is actually not quite as bad, but that’s not saying much. The SNES version of Dragon’s Lair is still a terrible game of ruined potential. It has decent graphics, but everything else seems to be pulled down by the weight of good ideas being implemented poorly.

Dragon’s Lair: The Legend (Game Boy)

Made by the same company that created the NES version, Dragon’s Lair: The Legend is slightly better than the NES game, but not by much. The good news is that it attempts to tell a new story: The evil wizard Mordroc has attacked a caravan containing the mystical Life Stone, which of course gives the bearer limitless power and immortality, and, of course, kidnapped Princess Daphne. However, one of Daphne’s servants has split the Life Stone into numerous pieces and scattered them about the land. Now Dirk must collect all the pieces, stop Mordroc, and save Daphne once again.

Dragon’s Lair: Escape from Singe’s Castle / The Curse of Mordread

When Dragon’s Lair was ported to the Amiga, it was quite a technical achievement, since it was the first port of Dragon’s Lair to truly come close to replicating the original arcade version. It was far from perfect; it’s hard to cram a laserdisc’s worth of content onto six 3.5″ floppies, so there were a lot of missing scenes and such, but it was leaps and bounds ahead of everything that had come before. It’s quite obsolete now, with the wide availability of HD arcade-perfect ports, but when it was time to release a follow up, things got interesting.

Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp

In the early 1990s, with the FMV game suddenly in vogue again thanks to the CD-ROM, Bluth and his team (Rick Dyer had since moved on to work on his own set of FMV titles) decided to return to work on Dragon’s Lair 2. The game would be much larger in scope than the original Dragon’s Lair, featuring a time-travel scenario that would take Dirk across history and myth to save Princess Daphne once again, this time from the evil wizard Mordroc, who apparently was the owner of the castle you explored in the first game, despite the fact that his name wasn’t even mentioned. Mordroc plans to marry Daphne with the Death Ring, which will turn her into an ugly monster much like himself. This kind of defeats the point of marrying Daphne in the first place (Side Note: Dirk and Daphne sure have a suspiciously large number of children, don’t they?), but regardless, Dirk must find a way to catch up with Mordroc as he travels across history before Mordroc puts his evil plan into action, or not only will Dirk find himself without his true love, but facing the wrath of his mother-in-law as well. It’s never properly explained why Mordroc is traveling across these different time periods that Dirk chases him in, although if he just teleported Daphne to his lair and wed her immediately, the game would be quite short, uneventful, and bland.

Dragon’s Lair

Full Motion Video Games; loved by few, scorned by most. Often considered a blight upon the early era of CD-ROM games, and sometimes even blamed for the death of early consoles using the technology (Sega CD, anyone?), the truth is that while they are in most cases pretty forgettable, there is a reason that so many were made: people were excited by them at first. After the start of the infamous hearings on video game violence in the mid-1990s, Night Trap, one of the flagship FMV games for the Sega CD, became a huge best-seller, and many other games were released in the wake of it. Once the novelty wore off though, people saw how boring and repetitive most of them were.

Space Ace

With Dragon’s Lair being a monumental success, it was obvious that a follow-up was in order. While not a direct sequel, Space Ace played almost exactly the same as its predecessor, with a few twists. Whereas Dragon’s Lair was based more or less on medieval fantasy, Space Ace took on the appearance of a science fiction B-movie serial.

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