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Dragon's Lair (video Game)
''Dragon's Lair'' is an interactive film LaserDisc video game developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems and published by Cinematronics in 1983, as the first game in the ''Dragon's Lair'' series. In the game, the protagonist Dirk the Daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe who has locked the princess in the foul wizard Mordroc's castle. It featured animation by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth. Most other games of the era represented the character as a sprite, which consisted of a series of pixels displayed in succession. Due to hardware limitations of the era, artists were greatly restricted in the detail they could achieve using that technique; the resolution, framerate and number of frames were severely constrained. ''Dragon's Lair'' overcame those limitations by tapping into the vast storage potential of the LaserDisc but imposed other limitations on the actual gameplay. The success of the game sparked numerous home ports, sequels an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RDI Video Systems
RDI Video Systems (Rick Dyer Industries) was a video game company founded by Rick Dyer (video game designer), Rick Dyer originally as Advanced Microcomputer Systems, and was well known for its Laserdisc video games, beginning with the immensely popular ''Dragon's Lair (1983 video game), Dragon's Lair''. The company went bankrupt shortly after completing, but before releasing, the Halcyon (console), Halcyon gaming console. History Rick Dyer (video game designer), Rick Dyer initially experimented with interactive novel games "in the early 1980s" and decided to use a "LaserDisc player in an arcade machine" after witnessing a 1982 Amusement & Music Operators Association trade show "demo of Sega's LaserDisc game ''Astron Belt''". He also saw Don Bluth's ''The Secret of NIMH'' (1982) which led Dyer "to draft in Bluth's company to do the animation for what would become ''Dragon's Lair (1983 video game), Dragon's Lair''" (1983) for his "newly formed" company Advanced Microcomputer Syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |