Back in the 80's, when I was a kid, I played the hell out of this game, and it's gotten to the point where even now, in my early 50's, I still have every section of that game memorized. I can beat that game with one life. Two lives on a badly coordinated day. I remember the first time I saw this game in the arcades and I swore someday that I would own one so I could play it at home. I never was able to get an actual arcade unit, but I've been able to play that game on my computer for years.
I could have written this myself, because that's exactly how I feel (and same age, LOL). I still remember the first time I finished the game; I felt like I was walking on air as I headed home :). Like you, I wanted but never could get an actual arcade cabinet -- they cost way too much money on Ebay now. So I sprung for one of these replicas when they released a second set. It now sits on a shelf above my computer desk, so I can look at it as I work, and set it for a game or two once in a while.
I seem to remember it was a 2 coin game. After spending a couple bucks and barely swinging across the bridge. I realized I might enjoy watching others play the game and live vicariously through their quarters 🙂
It cannot be real. First of all, it would have be MP4 or something, not NTSC, second, you can't just pick up and turn a spinning disk. If you do this, you risk destroying the disk because it is basically a gyroscope.
A little sad that the LD labels are on the wrong sides unless the original was that way: the label is opposite the recorded material since the first players read only from the back side. That is, "Side 1" data is opposite the "Side 1" label and vice versa.
I played this game a few times back in the day and was dead before I knew what was happening. A crowd would grow around the game if anyone showed up and knew how to play it.
When it first came out there was a long wait to get to play it. It was a couple of weeks later and I could walk up and play it because it was a disappointment. I think that I spent maybe five dollars on it before I went back to Asteroids. 🚀
I couldn't play Dragon's Lair worth a lick, but I could win Space Ace. And yes, there would literally be a crowd of people around by the end of the game, which really stoked my 10-year-old ego. One time my mom finished getting groceries and was waiting on me, so as soon as I finished the final winning move I worked my way out of the crowd and let them finish watching the end scene.
@@daneast that used to be a big thing back in the days. Our village never had arcade machines but the market area did which was where our school used to be and happened to be everyone's go to area during 30 minute break for which everyone waited. One time there was a guy who wanted to finish Midnight resistance one way or the other and kept dropping game coins but couldn't get it done... All the onlookers were so dissapointed because otherwise he was a pretty decent player overall but the difficulty level in the arcade cabinet was that you cannot kill the last boss with your default gun... Another one was the Altered Beast but over the time everyone playing the game could finish it some people requiring only one coin
Yeah, I couldn't play it worth a crap back in the day either, but fifteen or so years ago I got the Game Boy Color version, and between a lot of practice and remembering the moves from an old "how to beat Dragon's Lair" pamphlet/book I had, I eventually got pretty good at the GBC version (which does not have as many moves to make per screen/room as the full arcade version. Seeing this was pretty dang cool, especially with all the included detail!
I remember the only time I tried it as a tween (a cabinet at a tourist site in the early nineties, in great condition!) I dumped 2 dollars in for one play, died in less than 5 seconds, and ended up staring at the thing in shock. I have no idea how anyone, anywhere, learned to play the game unless they were an independently wealthy masochist. For perspective, that money was all the money I'd been given to grab a souvenir for the day and would have bought an Archie digest comic or 3 packs of trading cards
@@melskunk ...back in the day, I'd play the game in tandem with a friend. If I played, he'd learn where I'd fuck up and take note of that area. Then he would play and I would be the one taking notes. Until this day, I still haven't beaten Singe. Maybe deep inside, I don't want to advance. It still is my favorite game. It probably took a big chunk of my youths money.
I was sent a video about this back in October courtesy of my daughter who knows I’ve been a DL fan since the original arcade game released in 1983 and I had to have it! This was on the top of my Christmas Wish List! I opened this on Christmas and have been playing it since. I can’t help but looking this replica over and over of the details just like the original full scale arcade game! I spent $$$’s on this game (50 cents for 1 Player, 3 Lives) in my day and the day came when I had finally beat “Singe” the Dragon! I love everything about this game ! Everything down to the mini laser disc and miniature coins! I dreamed of owning the actual game (in 1983). Who knew that nearly 40 years later, this replica with full functions as the original is close enough! Thanks for making this available and allowing me to relive my youth!
The gameplay was as awful as the animation was amazing. If I ever played this thing it would have been dead-dead-dead-never again. But I did watch several people play it who knew what they were doing.
That's adorable. Having a little display of arcade machines with the screens running the demos? Just knowing the whole game is in there too? That's something I'd be into.
My all-time favorite arcade game, tied with Space Ace. The first time I got to Singe, I had one life left and had never seen anyone make it to that sequence. In an accomplishment of amazing personal heroism and skill, I persevered, made it through, and was suitably rewarded by the callapygian and pulchritudinous Princess Daphne, a feat that swells my heart with pride to this day.
This miniature cabinet looks fantastic! This is by far the most detailed and beautiful replica that I have ever seen - actual working LED scoreboard and ultra-fine print on every decal was the cherry on the top of everything.
The "laserdisc" in this toy cannot be real. Laserdisc is optical so if this was a laserdisc not only would the disc have to get smaller, but so would the wavelength of the laser. It's either got to be just for show, or it's an entirely different format, like MP4. The game was just a series of animated scenes, and this was a "chose your own adventure" game. When you hit the appropriate button or joystick position at the appropriate point, you would chose what the next scene was. Years back, I had this game running on my computer in a simulator. It was a series of video files that I could just pull up in a player, and go through them all. In fact, I think I did that.
@@fuzzywzhe Yeah there's no laser unit to be seen in the case. It's not real. For a moment I thought it may be an 8 cm CD-ROM, but it's smaller. And then I noticed that there is nothing inside to read it.
Hearing Clint giggle as the machine powers on makes me smile. This product was made for people like him. I wouldn't get it but man I appreciate all the work they did to make it as faithful to the original machine.
I'm one of those rare people that are really good at this game. I can usually beat it on just one credit :) I also had a laser disc player when I was growing up, so I really appreciate the incredible detail they put into it. That is an AMAZING Mini Arcade! I think the best one yet
That's so freaking cool! Loved Dragon's Lair as a kid. Two of my favorite things combined, Cartoons and Arcade Games. I was really stoked when the actual cartoon series hit Saturday mornings.
I remember the mall arcade I went to in Dallas had placed a second monitor above the Dragon's Lair machine which mirrored the game currently being played. There would be a crowd of 50 or so people watching that second display waiting for their turn to lose 50 cents in about 20 seconds
I remember playing this and Space Ace in my local arcade back in the early 80's, and shoving a load of coins in the slots trying to get the character to move in the right direction. This game is very frustrating but strangely addictive at the same time :)
This is so great. I still remember my first time seeing Dragons Lair in the arcade in the eighties. This was one I had to have and bought mine without hesitation. Great addition to my home arcade.
Looks like 320x240 to me, judging by the menu screen. Remember that the DPI is going to be high (ish) on such a small screen, even with the bog-standard 320x240 resolution.
Open up a paint program and reduce an image to 486 × 440 pixels - that was the resolution on NTSC screens back then. Resolution is enormously higher today.
@@williamcrowe2576 Would you really want to bring back CRTs at all? Some technologies are better off dead, forever. A CRT was a particle accelerator. You won't believe it, but those things actually gave off some pretty high frequency radiation. I'm glad they are gone.
Man. I loved this game in it's day. I was the first in my town to slay the dragon and rescue the princess! That was an accolade I proudly wore at a time and in a small town where video game prowess held real stature amongst peers. I remember 20+ year olds envious of me many years younger. Of course, it didn't do much for me with the girls now I look back! Fortunately nerdiness also came into style many years later 😁 I had this in my 1997 built mame machine also (sadly stolen by burgalars). Great to see it recreated in this fashion. Thanks for the video!
120 is NOTHING for a wild product like this. my lord this was a great idea. i remember the full size arcade game when it first came out, what a trip that was.
OMG! That is awesome!!! Brings back so many memories of the days when I use to hangout at Arcades when I was a teen, spending mad quarters on games like these. I wasn't good with Dragon Lair either, but had friends that did completed the game and beat the dragon at the end. It was such fun times back then. My mom would get upset at times because I would spend my lunch money on arcades. LOL. Also ummm skip classes XD. This was back in Puerto Rico by the way. Since schools in the USA were closed buildings. In Puerto Rico the schools at the time where like clusters of bunkers/classrooms. You had the options to go out of the facilities at recess and lunch. Thanks for sharing this! God Bless and stay safe!
They really went all-out on that, and it looks great! Great purchase there. If someone had said to me, "you could easily own a stand up arcade machine of Dragon's Lair" back in the 80's, I would have said "I'll never be that rich!" Lol!
You have to remember the time- it was 1983 and there was nothing like this in the arcades. Think Mappy, Mario Bros (not even *Super* Mario Bros yet), Gyruss... There were some color vector games, but besides those there was nothing reasonably high-resolution let alone laser disc quality. People really were lining up for the opportunity to pay 50 cents (double the vast majority of games) only to game over in under 20 seconds, then get back in line to try again. Also, this had to be one of the first times they would often put a screen on top of the game so people could watch. Yes, I was there and painstakingly memorized the required moves until I finally beat the dragon and rescued Daphne. Sadly, this was the only laser disc game I ever finished in the arcade. While I still spent tons on Space Ace which followed after Dragon's Lair, I never had the reflexes to complete it. And don't even get me started on Cliff Hanger- I never got more than 30 seconds into that one.
@@QunMang Yeah, the difficulty on the later laserdisc games was ridiculous. And they went full psycho on Dragon's Lair 2, with the mandatory collectibles you have to pick up if you want to get the good ending, on top of already being stupidly hard.
@@jasonblalock4429 Interestingly, given the area I lived in (Chicago), I never encountered a Dragon's Lair II machine. When the game was released for the Amiga I thought at the time it was a computer sequel to the original game. It wasn't until later I learned of the arcade game's existence. The Amiga version was definitely quite difficult. The only way for me to see all the game was to use the cheat that has the game play itself ("GETMORDROKDIRK" I think- typed at some point- I don't remember, maybe the title screen).
Tanks for the video! This is awesome! One of my fav's too. Just need a replica of the Firefox stand up arcade too! These and the Spy Hunter arcade sounds would dominate the Black Cat Arcade I used to go to all the time as a kid. Thanks for the memories LGR! All the best to you! :D
I still fondly remember mastering this in the arcade at the MGM Grand in Reno while my mom and grandparents gambled. That was the first time I realized how much I love being in casinos.
Dude, this takes me back to the arcade era. This machine was the Two Quarters game everybody lined up for. I never was good at it. Now, I have this game via dvd. You play with your remote. Cool little machine. What's next, SPACE ACE. That would be cool. 🤘🤠
Loved that game. Spent many hours with friends in the local arcade memorizing all of the moves for each screen. Revolutionary for its time, along with Space Ace and Thayer's Quest.
I actually have played it that way quite a bit. I plugged in a spare PS4 controller into USB 1 or USB 2 (I believe that determines which player you are), and all the functions were mapped to buttons fairly logical. The video output from this was detected as 720P on my capture device so I would suspect it will look fuzzier on newer 4K displays. I still use a 1080P display in my game room currently. The opening graphics of the NWT logo etc look very pixelated and rough but the actual game play I thought looked really good! I can tell they used an original LD master to rip this from instead of the newer remaster video as some of the original noise etc. common from a LD can be seen and I prefer it that way as it is more accurate overall.
@@IvoryTowerCollections FMV resolution is still much lower anyway, so if there's no any fuck-ups with upscaling, aspect ratio etc. it still should look fine, without any real difference okaying on 720p or 4K screen.
I haven't tried external controllers on mine, but I did hook it up to an external monitor over HDMI and it retains the 4:3 aspect ratio. Got a video if you want to see it as well.
Dragon's Lair was a game that always fascinated me, and little replicas of things really catch my fancy. When I was a little kid, I would get so obsessed with such tiny replicas, and if I saw something like that, I would go around saying something like "Cute little itty bitty Dragon's Lair machine."
I remember sucking at it in the arcade, and then this one kid came in and could play the whole game without dying once. Man, we'd crowd around and watch in awe.
Congrats on getting one of these amazing replicas. You should be able to find some action figures to pose with those machines, to complete the illusion of an arcade, on a shelf. :) Thanks for sharing this.
Oh, do I remember playing this game in the arcade. We used to sneak into Chuck-E-Cheese to play it. Only to be chased off by the staff because we weren't with our parents. I spent my paper-route money playing this game and the crowds would gather around while I played. Little do they know how many real hours I spent studying the game play. I even wrote a paper about the game (I'll have to find and post it one day). There were several releases of this game on different platforms over the years, but, nothing beats the real stand up arcades of the 80's. Thanks for posting this video, I may pick up one of these mini versions.
I remember dragons lair on the Sega CD and how bulky everything was. At the time, I thought it was futuristic even though the video was grainy. Now we have an arcade perfect game literally on a chip.
I love that it came with a mini laser disc and the mini disc player ahhhhhh! It's the little attention to details that impress me! My sticker collection is on my IKEA bookshelf also!
I know it's objectively a lot of money but I'm amazed and impressed that they can make something with this level of attention to detail for that price and still turn a profit.
OMG!!! This is awesome!! I was an expert at this game...I could play it without looking at it (since the screens were relatively predictable), I even have the laserdisc mounted in a frame :)
I find this replica fascinating. In this day and age, you can do full-motion video with computer memory and a tiny LCD screen, so the electronics no longer have to be in a big arcade cabinet. When I was a kid, I had a dream that I had a small-scale replica of a TRS-80 Model II computer, but back then such a computer replica couldn't be made because the electronics had to be as big as they were.
I love playing Dragon's Lair, and a lot of other Laserdisc games as well! I get that people might not be into the whole trial and error aspect, not gonna argue against that. But what's appealing is the feeling of progression, trying out stupid stuff to see fun animations, figure out how to get a higher score, etc. Even if you got it all memorized, it still is a test of reflex as DL randomizes/mirrors the scenes. Reading this comment section really gives me the impression that most people haven't played it..
I’m not into arcade machines in the slightest but damn am I impressed at the quality of this thing, and that key chain?! Mate I want this because of the quality and detail alone. Imagine if this was the norm and not a rare example of what’s possible with a bit of passion? Materialism has kill so much :-/.
who's good at this game? i WAS good at this game, in the mid 80's when i put $40+ of quarters into it. Piccadilly Circus arcade, Southdale mall. Edina, MN. This machine is amazing, thanks for your video. great memories of one of my favorite games ever
Listening to the attract mode takes me right back to the first time I saw that beast of a cabinet in the arcade. Yes the game stinks, but with the sounds of primitive bleeps and bloops coming from the 8-bit machines surrounding it, Dragon's Lair was something to behold. This replica is amazing.
This is correct. While I don't remember seeing them on actual cabs when I was younger, that sticker is for those that wish to add it. I left mine off but yes, it is optional.
Ya out the quaters on bottom of screen so you know whose playing next! Thatswaht we used to do in Australia anyways.....and it was 20 C pieces /dollar coins
There's an error on the laserdisc. The "Program Material Is Recorded On the Other Side" label should be on the SHINY side, because the LD is read from the bottom. Thus the label showing Side A (i.e. the only side with video on this one-sided disc) should be on the dull side that doesn't have any data, so that the Side A label faces up, while the REAL Side A shiny side with video faces down so the laser can read it.
Apparently, this was one of the few LaserDisc players that reads from the _top_ of the disc. The laser assembly floats overhead, kinda like a record player.
@@LGRBlerbs Good god you're right. I stand corrected. Googled actual game LD and it has the label on shiny side after all. o.o; (though the one I found didn't have ANY label on the dull side) All autoflip players can actually read from the top since they move the head to above the disc, but they still obey the standard that labels go on opposite sides from data (side B is top in an autoflip player). This is a real oddity for a single-sided player!
The scoreboard on this thing looks really cool. I could probably do without the replica of the laserdisc player, but this thing looks really cool. I don't think I'll be getting any of these arcade replicas any time soon unless arcade1up starts using CRTs and either FPGAs or actual arcade boards (which will never happen, but I can dream).
We eventually figured that out, but not until we spent $20 in quarters trying to beat it. That attract mode was an irresistible siren song for 10 year olds.
I have 1x4 boards for light baffles above my workbench, that is where stickers, and long term notes go. Also have little notes on the edges of my bookshelves in the shop. Automotive related stuff mostly goes on my toolbox top cover that is never closed.
Wow, that is extremely impressive! I remember that game in the arcade when I was a kid... and I remember it was like the first realistic type of game. And I remember how hard it was .... there was one spot I just could never get passed
Well done recreation of the Dragon's Lair game. I actually like Space Ace game more. I remember beating them both in the day. The game is now available on my iPhone so I sometimes play it just for fun.
Back in the 80's, when I was a kid, I played the hell out of this game, and it's gotten to the point where even now, in my early 50's, I still have every section of that game memorized. I can beat that game with one life. Two lives on a badly coordinated day. I remember the first time I saw this game in the arcades and I swore someday that I would own one so I could play it at home. I never was able to get an actual arcade unit, but I've been able to play that game on my computer for years.
I could have written this myself, because that's exactly how I feel (and same age, LOL). I still remember the first time I finished the game; I felt like I was walking on air as I headed home :). Like you, I wanted but never could get an actual arcade cabinet -- they cost way too much money on Ebay now. So I sprung for one of these replicas when they released a second set. It now sits on a shelf above my computer desk, so I can look at it as I work, and set it for a game or two once in a while.
Right there with you brotha, I have the iircade version, but this "pocket" version is a big hit, love it!
I seem to remember it was a 2 coin game. After spending a couple bucks and barely swinging across the bridge. I realized I might enjoy watching others play the game and live vicariously through their quarters 🙂
That tiny laser disk is adorable.
It cannot be real. First of all, it would have be MP4 or something, not NTSC, second, you can't just pick up and turn a spinning disk. If you do this, you risk destroying the disk because it is basically a gyroscope.
As a kid, I looked at MiniDiscs and fully expected us to use 1-inch 500GB discs in the future.
A little sad that the LD labels are on the wrong sides unless the original was that way: the label is opposite the recorded material since the first players read only from the back side. That is, "Side 1" data is opposite the "Side 1" label and vice versa.
It is
@@JasonOlshefsky It's meant to look like that, the player is one of the few that read from the top rather than the bottom.
Line the tiny quarters against the bottom of the screen to indicate that you have the next play.
Doin't forget the pool table :)
Oldschool
In my day , you put the quarter on the top marque and held your thumb on it.
TRUTHS
Bigfriendly15 yeah I remember that shyte here in middle Tennessee
I played this game a few times back in the day and was dead before I knew what was happening. A crowd would grow around the game if anyone showed up and knew how to play it.
Same here, except I didn't know anyone who was good at it. I just remember it looking lonely next to Mortal Kombat.
When it first came out there was a long wait to get to play it. It was a couple of weeks later and I could walk up and play it because it was a disappointment. I think that I spent maybe five dollars on it before I went back to Asteroids. 🚀
I couldn't play Dragon's Lair worth a lick, but I could win Space Ace. And yes, there would literally be a crowd of people around by the end of the game, which really stoked my 10-year-old ego. One time my mom finished getting groceries and was waiting on me, so as soon as I finished the final winning move I worked my way out of the crowd and let them finish watching the end scene.
@@daneast that used to be a big thing back in the days. Our village never had arcade machines but the market area did which was where our school used to be and happened to be everyone's go to area during 30 minute break for which everyone waited. One time there was a guy who wanted to finish Midnight resistance one way or the other and kept dropping game coins but couldn't get it done... All the onlookers were so dissapointed because otherwise he was a pretty decent player overall but the difficulty level in the arcade cabinet was that you cannot kill the last boss with your default gun... Another one was the Altered Beast but over the time everyone playing the game could finish it some people requiring only one coin
Yeah, I couldn't play it worth a crap back in the day either, but fifteen or so years ago I got the Game Boy Color version, and between a lot of practice and remembering the moves from an old "how to beat Dragon's Lair" pamphlet/book I had, I eventually got pretty good at the GBC version (which does not have as many moves to make per screen/room as the full arcade version.
Seeing this was pretty dang cool, especially with all the included detail!
This game was beautiful to see, and horrible to play.
i remember i saw this chinese guy playing through the whole thing at the local arcade hall...think he was working in that game company :)
@@bobfrode I never got past the start of the game i still don't how to advents past it
I remember the only time I tried it as a tween (a cabinet at a tourist site in the early nineties, in great condition!) I dumped 2 dollars in for one play, died in less than 5 seconds, and ended up staring at the thing in shock. I have no idea how anyone, anywhere, learned to play the game unless they were an independently wealthy masochist.
For perspective, that money was all the money I'd been given to grab a souvenir for the day and would have bought an Archie digest comic or 3 packs of trading cards
@@melskunk I was dumb i sunk 8 dollars
same but in a move theater
@@melskunk ...back in the day, I'd play the game in tandem with a friend. If I played, he'd learn where I'd fuck up and take note of that area. Then he would play and I would be the one taking notes. Until this day, I still haven't beaten Singe. Maybe deep inside, I don't want to advance.
It still is my favorite game. It probably took a big chunk of my youths money.
This is exactly how I remembered playing Dragon's Lair... dying repeatedly.
The elevator shaft was the absolute worst for me.
Oh my god, the detail on that thing is insane! I really didn't expect the LCD scoreboard.
I was sent a video about this back in October courtesy of my daughter who knows I’ve been a DL fan since the original arcade game released in 1983 and I had to have it! This was on the top of my Christmas Wish List! I opened this on Christmas and have been playing it since. I can’t help but looking this replica over and over of the details just like the original full scale arcade game! I spent $$$’s on this game (50 cents for 1 Player, 3 Lives) in my day and the day came when I had finally beat “Singe” the Dragon! I love everything about this game ! Everything down to the mini laser disc and miniature coins! I dreamed of owning the actual game (in 1983). Who knew that nearly 40 years later, this replica with full functions as the original is close enough! Thanks for making this available and allowing me to relive my youth!
Remembering the complete spinechilling awe when this came out in the arcade... then thinking on how this mini version is real..is simply mind blowing!
I always loved how Dirk looks at you during a game over like he's saying "Thou art play as a noob!" before he dies.
I remember when those came out in the arcades, there were lineups to play them. I was not a fan once I tried it, I might have played twice.
Exactly man,it looked fantastic-but more display demo and little game.
..at least Dragon's Lair was more appealing than Firefox, which was usually placed beside it.
_and_ it took 2 tokens! i remember getting very frustrated by the gameplay & decided it was just to expensive to play more of... quarter thief! 😂
It was definitely a lot more fun to watch someone else playing than wasting your own quarters on it. Can't really say that about most games. =)
The gameplay was as awful as the animation was amazing. If I ever played this thing it would have been dead-dead-dead-never again. But I did watch several people play it who knew what they were doing.
That's adorable. Having a little display of arcade machines with the screens running the demos? Just knowing the whole game is in there too? That's something I'd be into.
My all-time favorite arcade game, tied with Space Ace. The first time I got to Singe, I had one life left and had never seen anyone make it to that sequence. In an accomplishment of amazing personal heroism and skill, I persevered, made it through, and was suitably rewarded by the callapygian and pulchritudinous Princess Daphne, a feat that swells my heart with pride to this day.
This miniature cabinet looks fantastic! This is by far the most detailed and beautiful replica that I have ever seen - actual working LED scoreboard and ultra-fine print on every decal was the cherry on the top of everything.
As a LaserDisc geek, that attention to detail on the player and disc is goddamn impressive.
It really does not share anything in common with a real laser disk?
The "laserdisc" in this toy cannot be real. Laserdisc is optical so if this was a laserdisc not only would the disc have to get smaller, but so would the wavelength of the laser. It's either got to be just for show, or it's an entirely different format, like MP4.
The game was just a series of animated scenes, and this was a "chose your own adventure" game. When you hit the appropriate button or joystick position at the appropriate point, you would chose what the next scene was.
Years back, I had this game running on my computer in a simulator. It was a series of video files that I could just pull up in a player, and go through them all. In fact, I think I did that.
@@fuzzywzhe Yeah there's no laser unit to be seen in the case. It's not real. For a moment I thought it may be an 8 cm CD-ROM, but it's smaller. And then I noticed that there is nothing inside to read it.
It's just a fake laserdisc, but the buttons, lazer, cabinet, aesthetics of the lazer disk player is dead on balls accurate
uh....language!!!👎🏼
Hearing Clint giggle as the machine powers on makes me smile. This product was made for people like him.
I wouldn't get it but man I appreciate all the work they did to make it as faithful to the original machine.
I'm one of those rare people that are really good at this game. I can usually beat it on just one credit :) I also had a laser disc player when I was growing up, so I really appreciate the incredible detail they put into it. That is an AMAZING Mini Arcade! I think the best one yet
That's so freaking cool! Loved Dragon's Lair as a kid. Two of my favorite things combined, Cartoons and Arcade Games. I was really stoked when the actual cartoon series hit Saturday mornings.
I remember the mall arcade I went to in Dallas had placed a second monitor above the Dragon's Lair machine which mirrored the game currently being played. There would be a crowd of 50 or so people watching that second display waiting for their turn to lose 50 cents in about 20 seconds
holy crap. i totally forgot, my arcade did that also. that was cool...
I bought this last month, absolutely awesome. Really put time into the detail. A definite must have for the collector.
I remember playing this and Space Ace in my local arcade back in the early 80's, and shoving a load of coins in the slots trying to get the character to move in the right direction. This game is very frustrating but strangely addictive at the same time :)
This is so great. I still remember my first time seeing Dragons Lair in the arcade in the eighties. This was one I had to have and bought mine without hesitation. Great addition to my home arcade.
BTW can't recall the model, but the disk player was a Pioneer.
Pioneer PR-7820.
Most LD players are Pioneers :P
@@kaitlyn__L but it was built with that model. All DL, SA, and TQ games had only that one model. No others worked.
@@0311Mushroom indeed, I was just being facetious :)
@@kaitlyn__L tis cool. Side note, that is a tiny copy of a 7820.
I Kickstarted this last year for my dad for fathers day, he loves it. I love it uses miniature quarters
The display of the screen was at a much higher resolution than I was expecting from such a small screen.
The sound was pretty good as well.
Looks like 320x240 to me, judging by the menu screen. Remember that the DPI is going to be high (ish) on such a small screen, even with the bog-standard 320x240 resolution.
Open up a paint program and reduce an image to 486 × 440 pixels - that was the resolution on NTSC screens back then. Resolution is enormously higher today.
Be hard to replicate the CRT screens of yesteryear in that size.
@@williamcrowe2576 Would you really want to bring back CRTs at all? Some technologies are better off dead, forever. A CRT was a particle accelerator. You won't believe it, but those things actually gave off some pretty high frequency radiation. I'm glad they are gone.
Man. I loved this game in it's day. I was the first in my town to slay the dragon and rescue the princess! That was an accolade I proudly wore at a time and in a small town where video game prowess held real stature amongst peers. I remember 20+ year olds envious of me many years younger. Of course, it didn't do much for me with the girls now I look back! Fortunately nerdiness also came into style many years later 😁
I had this in my 1997 built mame machine also (sadly stolen by burgalars). Great to see it recreated in this fashion.
Thanks for the video!
120 is NOTHING for a wild product like this. my lord this was a great idea. i remember the full size arcade game when it first came out, what a trip that was.
OMG! That is awesome!!! Brings back so many memories of the days when I use to hangout at Arcades when I was a teen, spending mad quarters on games like these. I wasn't good with Dragon Lair either, but had friends that did completed the game and beat the dragon at the end. It was such fun times back then. My mom would get upset at times because I would spend my lunch money on arcades. LOL. Also ummm skip classes XD. This was back in Puerto Rico by the way. Since schools in the USA were closed buildings. In Puerto Rico the schools at the time where like clusters of bunkers/classrooms. You had the options to go out of the facilities at recess and lunch. Thanks for sharing this! God Bless and stay safe!
OMG, that's so friggin cool, brings back so many memories of my arcade days.
Yes a lot of the Dragons Lair Consoles had tv screens on top as well for others to watch game play.
Noice. I kind of love how the "Home Arcade" scene has been seeing a renaissance as of late.
What does 'Noice' mean? (・_・;)
@@fionaneufeld7908 Just some stupid meme that everyone quotes.
@@zusurs It's a meme? I thought it was just a joke version of "Nice"
@@TheKillerMime I thought it wwas the aussie version of nice?
They really went all-out on that, and it looks great!
Great purchase there.
If someone had said to me, "you could easily own a stand up arcade machine of Dragon's Lair" back in the 80's, I would have said "I'll never be that rich!" Lol!
I saw an IRL dragons lair cabinet at a convention once and waited 15 minutes in line to play it. And was immediately disappointed lol.
You have to remember the time- it was 1983 and there was nothing like this in the arcades. Think Mappy, Mario Bros (not even *Super* Mario Bros yet), Gyruss... There were some color vector games, but besides those there was nothing reasonably high-resolution let alone laser disc quality. People really were lining up for the opportunity to pay 50 cents (double the vast majority of games) only to game over in under 20 seconds, then get back in line to try again. Also, this had to be one of the first times they would often put a screen on top of the game so people could watch. Yes, I was there and painstakingly memorized the required moves until I finally beat the dragon and rescued Daphne. Sadly, this was the only laser disc game I ever finished in the arcade. While I still spent tons on Space Ace which followed after Dragon's Lair, I never had the reflexes to complete it. And don't even get me started on Cliff Hanger- I never got more than 30 seconds into that one.
@Guy Incognito As someone who appreciates old arcade games, Dragon's Lair isn't a fun game.
But it IS a good movie.
@@nicksrandomreviews thats a perfect summary
@@QunMang Yeah, the difficulty on the later laserdisc games was ridiculous. And they went full psycho on Dragon's Lair 2, with the mandatory collectibles you have to pick up if you want to get the good ending, on top of already being stupidly hard.
@@jasonblalock4429 Interestingly, given the area I lived in (Chicago), I never encountered a Dragon's Lair II machine. When the game was released for the Amiga I thought at the time it was a computer sequel to the original game. It wasn't until later I learned of the arcade game's existence. The Amiga version was definitely quite difficult. The only way for me to see all the game was to use the cheat that has the game play itself ("GETMORDROKDIRK" I think- typed at some point- I don't remember, maybe the title screen).
Tanks for the video! This is awesome! One of my fav's too. Just need a replica of the Firefox stand up arcade too! These and the Spy Hunter arcade sounds would dominate the Black Cat Arcade I used to go to all the time as a kid. Thanks for the memories LGR! All the best to you! :D
I still fondly remember mastering this in the arcade at the MGM Grand in Reno while my mom and grandparents gambled. That was the first time I realized how much I love being in casinos.
I was the guy you would watch in the arcade completing the game flawlessly. These were my favorites.
This mini arcade machine is a precious muffin and I would protect it with my life!
are muffins really precious? Aren't muffins for eating? Delicious, hot buttered... damn! I'm so hungry now!
I hated this game, but so want this machine.
Yeah. It's Just Sooooo Cyute!
battery yes included oh yes!
They're called tabletop arcade games. You can buy them online for all kinds of different games.
You are so excited & happy in this video! I like your enthusiasm.
No shot of your whole mini arcade "diorama"? LGR, I am disappoint.
Seriously though, that is really damn cool, if a bit pricey. Thanks for sharing!
We're all dissapoint.
All turned on, too, so it's a little noisy heck of an arcade :3
Dude, this takes me back to the arcade era. This machine was the Two Quarters game everybody lined up for. I never was good at it. Now, I have this game via dvd. You play with your remote. Cool little machine. What's next, SPACE ACE. That would be cool.
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Love it, hope they have one for Space Ace because they belong together if they do
Loved that game. Spent many hours with friends in the local arcade memorizing all of the moves for each screen. Revolutionary for its time, along with Space Ace and Thayer's Quest.
Kinda curious about how this little machine works hooked up to a TV with full-size controllers
Like it isnt there.
I actually have played it that way quite a bit. I plugged in a spare PS4 controller into USB 1 or USB 2 (I believe that determines which player you are), and all the functions were mapped to buttons fairly logical. The video output from this was detected as 720P on my capture device so I would suspect it will look fuzzier on newer 4K displays. I still use a 1080P display in my game room currently. The opening graphics of the NWT logo etc look very pixelated and rough but the actual game play I thought looked really good! I can tell they used an original LD master to rip this from instead of the newer remaster video as some of the original noise etc. common from a LD can be seen and I prefer it that way as it is more accurate overall.
@@IvoryTowerCollections FMV resolution is still much lower anyway, so if there's no any fuck-ups with upscaling, aspect ratio etc. it still should look fine, without any real difference okaying on 720p or 4K screen.
I haven't tried external controllers on mine, but I did hook it up to an external monitor over HDMI and it retains the 4:3 aspect ratio. Got a video if you want to see it as well.
I'm really impressed by that screen actually. Really good detail, colour and brightness for its size.
For a moment I thought it would actually play on a mini-laser disc. Ultimate coolness.
Yes tear down
Dragon's Lair was a game that always fascinated me, and little replicas of things really catch my fancy. When I was a little kid, I would get so obsessed with such tiny replicas, and if I saw something like that, I would go around saying something like "Cute little itty bitty Dragon's Lair machine."
Dude this is INCREDIBLE
This is amazing!! I'm so happy to see how far technology has come. I hope you enjoy the game!
I'll second that. If these guys made a range of just Laserdisc stuff I'd buy it.
I remember sucking at it in the arcade, and then this one kid came in and could play the whole game without dying once. Man, we'd crowd around and watch in awe.
This is such a beautiful piece of merch. Amazing!
Congrats on getting one of these amazing replicas. You should be able to find some action figures to pose with those machines, to complete the illusion of an arcade, on a shelf. :) Thanks for sharing this.
I can't remember the last time I was this fascinated
The detail on this is amazing! I know you did a video on the tempest cabinet but I would love to see the other games as well
Even after reading the "warning" on the disc, you put it in wrong side up ;)
Heh, yeeeeaah I was kicking myself while editing. Whoops 😄
I commented on that myself earlier.
And right after he praised them for "Attention to detail".
@@LGRBlerbs But you were the first reviewer I saw who managed to get the disc out without destroying the sleeve in the process 🙂
Hahaha my OCD was kicking the inside of my head.
Now the game wont work
Oh, do I remember playing this game in the arcade. We used to sneak into Chuck-E-Cheese to play it. Only to be chased off by the staff because we weren't with our parents. I spent my paper-route money playing this game and the crowds would gather around while I played. Little do they know how many real hours I spent studying the game play. I even wrote a paper about the game (I'll have to find and post it one day). There were several releases of this game on different platforms over the years, but, nothing beats the real stand up arcades of the 80's. Thanks for posting this video, I may pick up one of these mini versions.
I remember dragons lair on the Sega CD and how bulky everything was. At the time, I thought it was futuristic even though the video was grainy. Now we have an arcade perfect game literally on a chip.
I really loved the PC CD-ROM from the early '90's. Used to play that a lot in college. =)
I love that it came with a mini laser disc and the mini disc player ahhhhhh! It's the little attention to details that impress me!
My sticker collection is on my IKEA bookshelf also!
I love Dragon Lair!
I wish there was a Cliffhanger cabinet.
Cliffhanger was cool, I did complete it once. Only ever saw two of the machines.
@@richardadams4928 I didn't learn about cliffhanger until after watching castle of cagliostro and I fell in love with the terrible voice acting
@@ITweeaboo Definitely deserved more attention, I really enjoyed it.
I know it's objectively a lot of money but I'm amazed and impressed that they can make something with this level of attention to detail for that price and still turn a profit.
Raises hand. " Uhh, ME. I'm good at the game." Back in the day, I could complete the game on 1 quarter.
That's badass! This game looks absurdly hard. When every wrong move spells death, it probably took a ton of quarters to master it.
@@caramel7149 Once you knew the sequence, it wasn't hard. Took a LOT of quarters for me to get there tho. Haha. Was thankful for the later home ports.
Lies. No one has ever beaten this game. lol
Dragon's Lair cost 50 cents so that's impossible.
Me, too. Took out Singe on the first try, with no lives in reserve and having never seen the sequence.
I owned this game with the Space Ace conversion - I can’t believe the detail wow
Who made that 1:1 Coffee Cup replica in the background, It looks really cool!
Thinkgeek used to sell a ceramic cup with silicone lid that looked like that.
OMG!!! This is awesome!! I was an expert at this game...I could play it without looking at it (since the screens were relatively predictable), I even have the laserdisc mounted in a frame :)
I’d just line those little replica coins up on the lip of the machine top. How did we hold a place in line with a random quarter?
This was one of my favorite arcade games in the 80s. Fantastic replica.
The second box is a replica of the shipping container the arcade games shipped in. Hope you didn't throw it out.
I throw *nothing* out when it comes to boxes. 👍
@@LGRBlerbs Hence your love of packing peanuts.
@@zembryoz haha he's probably got a in home ball pit filled with packing peanuts
@@cam182 it's more of an ironic death pit where he throws the bodies of people who send him packing peanuts
@@LGRBlerbs shut up you fools your making him angry.
I find this replica fascinating. In this day and age, you can do full-motion video with computer memory and a tiny LCD screen, so the electronics no longer have to be in a big arcade cabinet. When I was a kid, I had a dream that I had a small-scale replica of a TRS-80 Model II computer, but back then such a computer replica couldn't be made because the electronics had to be as big as they were.
Dragon's Lair on "Easy":
Dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
...all the deads on higher settings. ;-)
Sweet arcade box LGR! :-)
I love playing Dragon's Lair, and a lot of other Laserdisc games as well! I get that people might not be into the whole trial and error aspect, not gonna argue against that. But what's appealing is the feeling of progression, trying out stupid stuff to see fun animations, figure out how to get a higher score, etc. Even if you got it all memorized, it still is a test of reflex as DL randomizes/mirrors the scenes.
Reading this comment section really gives me the impression that most people haven't played it..
I'm hoping they'll do one of these for Space Ace...
Wellll.... Check the site now.
LOL!! Funny at the end where you are playing it.
Awesome piece and good review!
7:55 was the moment this broke me.
Paper sleeve on the "laserdisc"
Ive had dreams about being able to play like this for years! Incredible details
I’m not into arcade machines in the slightest but damn am I impressed at the quality of this thing, and that key chain?! Mate I want this because of the quality and detail alone. Imagine if this was the norm and not a rare example of what’s possible with a bit of passion? Materialism has kill so much :-/.
who's good at this game? i WAS good at this game, in the mid 80's when i put $40+ of quarters into it. Piccadilly Circus arcade, Southdale mall. Edina, MN. This machine is amazing, thanks for your video. great memories of one of my favorite games ever
"A big fan, of small things". Hey so is my wife...
Listening to the attract mode takes me right back to the first time I saw that beast of a cabinet in the arcade. Yes the game stinks, but with the sounds of primitive bleeps and bloops coming from the 8-bit machines surrounding it, Dragon's Lair was something to behold. This replica is amazing.
I actually * do * like playing the game. 😊
it's a bad ass game, one of the best from the golden age
Excellent stuff as always, Clint - well done!
If I remember correctly that Princess Daphne sticker is the same one that was on the kick plate of the original machine.
This is correct. While I don't remember seeing them on actual cabs when I was younger, that sticker is for those that wish to add it. I left mine off but yes, it is optional.
Loved your review Clint! Happy to see someone who plays DL about as well as I do :)
Ya out the quaters on bottom of screen so you know whose playing next! Thatswaht we used to do in Australia anyways.....and it was 20 C pieces /dollar coins
Even if this didn't play the game, it's almost worth it because of the detail in the miniatures.
Man, when LGR backs your project.... you better make it and make it good.
Man I remember playing this 35+ years ago. That looks awesome
Did you try playing on your television with a real controller?
My uncle would eventually complete this game and made it look easy with a crowd watching the good ole days in the arcade what an awesome time
There's an error on the laserdisc. The "Program Material Is Recorded On the Other Side" label should be on the SHINY side, because the LD is read from the bottom. Thus the label showing Side A (i.e. the only side with video on this one-sided disc) should be on the dull side that doesn't have any data, so that the Side A label faces up, while the REAL Side A shiny side with video faces down so the laser can read it.
Immersion ruined!!
Apparently, this was one of the few LaserDisc players that reads from the _top_ of the disc. The laser assembly floats overhead, kinda like a record player.
@@LGRBlerbs Good god you're right. I stand corrected. Googled actual game LD and it has the label on shiny side after all. o.o; (though the one I found didn't have ANY label on the dull side)
All autoflip players can actually read from the top since they move the head to above the disc, but they still obey the standard that labels go on opposite sides from data (side B is top in an autoflip player).
This is a real oddity for a single-sided player!
The satisfaction laugh when the keychain lit up was my peak for the video. Thanks Clint.
"Rpg manual" paper. He's right!!
The scoreboard on this thing looks really cool. I could probably do without the replica of the laserdisc player, but this thing looks really cool. I don't think I'll be getting any of these arcade replicas any time soon unless arcade1up starts using CRTs and either FPGAs or actual arcade boards (which will never happen, but I can dream).
Always absolutely HATED Dragon's Lair. A memorization test disguised as a game. But that keychain - add to cart!
It's about the animation. Getting to see the full film. That's the attraction.
We eventually figured that out, but not until we spent $20 in quarters trying to beat it. That attract mode was an irresistible siren song for 10 year olds.
@lass kinn it's exactly what it was. QTE the game, hard mode.
Looks so good but plays soooo bad.
@@rastas_4221 Keychain is $15
I have 1x4 boards for light baffles above my workbench, that is where stickers, and long term notes go. Also have little notes on the edges of my bookshelves in the shop. Automotive related stuff mostly goes on my toolbox top cover that is never closed.
I have a mini Laser Disc player too but I call it a DVD player
That's a beautiful little cabinet and the laser disc is exquisite :)
RPG manual paper :D
Wow, that is extremely impressive! I remember that game in the arcade when I was a kid... and I remember it was like the first realistic type of game. And I remember how hard it was .... there was one spot I just could never get passed
Blerbs time!
Well done recreation of the Dragon's Lair game. I actually like Space Ace game more. I remember beating them both in the day. The game is now available on my iPhone so I sometimes play it just for fun.