@zitrodivad the arcade cabinet had a joystick that you would move towards the flashing prompt to make a move. You also had a button for the sword to press when it flashed on screen.
Actually I think she was Daphne's mother. If not, her former nanny maybe? Her quote "I raised the princess to marry a frog!" is the only explanation to their relationship.
@@RekEStore32 Well, it doesn't really make much of a difference. She was still trying to kill him even though she was telling him to look for his wife.
I think it's more that this guy never got a break. Link went through more total, but Link could stop and take a breather now and then. Heck, he could even take a day off in most games. Playing games, fishing, relaxing on his own private island, sprucing up his own house and horseback riding....
Don Bluth also has always wanted to produce a Dragon’s Lair feature length movie since the 1980s but it never happened due to funding issues however he recently tried to bring back the project by doing a Kickstarter campaign to back the production of it! :)
First time seeing this and didn't even know there was a dragon's lair 2. Don's animation is amazing as always and love the Alice in wonderland homage from his time at Disney.
That's some real impressive animation but how the actual hell was anyone expected to play this? Those quick time events are absurdly quick. Talk about a quarter muncher.
The animation is beautiful! I love it all except Daphnie’s scream. It’s so high pitched it hurts to hear and you are not sure when it’s coming so you can’t really lower the volume.
Even though the Jabberwocky never appeared in the Alice in Wonderland animated film, there is completed artwork for it. As a kid, I remember through an animated book using the Disney pictures and they also included the Jabberwocky.
Don Blueth animation scared me, mainly the earthquake scenes. There's just something terrifying about watching the earth rise and crumble like that and he captured it beautifully.
I mean, his world is so full of crumbling architecture and persistent threats that it's hard to imagine that it actually stops between games. Maybe that's just HIS LIFE. On the other hand, that's just so many freaking kids with a wife who still looks like that, so obviously there are some benefits.
@@KingOfGaymes "His world is a constant Maelstrom of chaos and death, but I imagine his enduringly beautiful wife provides him comfort" Whether I interpreted the situation correctly or not, how is that sentiment misogynistic? I'm legitimately asking.
@@THATGuy5654 I guess some people figure any appreciation of physical beauty is a form of objectification. And yeah, those are obviously Dirk's and Daphne's kids. The boys look like and are even dressed like him. And why would Daphne's siblings join them on that joyride at the end? Talk about a bunch of third wheels. Or, rather... third through thirteenth wheels, by my count? So, in summary... yeah, that guy doesn't know what he's talking about. EDIT: Third through _fourteenth!_ EDIT 2: Okay, there appear to be nine boys and three girls on the time machine at the end, but in the previous scene we see four girls, so they must have at least thirteen kids (for a total of fifteen wheels if all are present). I hope that missing girl is just hidden amid the rest and didn't get left behind...
@@Jaffersin No. The biblical cherub looks nothing like that. Cupid was looted for Renaissance paintings. The actual cherub is a giant bronze with goat legs and four heads: Head of a man, an eagle, an ox, and a lion.
Good grief and people said for a time that the Cuphead game was difficult. Imo this was definitely the inspiration for the latter. Only Dragon's Lair was much harder 😂
Played this one for the first time on iOS in 2012. This one has WAY too many actions to take per minute, with no room to breath until the very, very end.
I don't think this is actually gameplay. Because you can't hear the action sounds. This just seems like the option where you can just watch the game autoplay. Also you can't really Finnish the game without obtaining all the treasures. Something I don't see happening here. I first played the game as a CD Rom game on the PC and later as a DVD. So I'm pretty familiar with the game options. Just saying.
When the game looks better than the cartoon lol! No seriously...I remember in the early days of Cartoon Network and Boomerang they actually showed episodes of the Dragon's Lair cartoon based off the first game...iirc each episode had a "if Dirk had chosen to do this" moment that showed Dirk's failure...they did not do this for the Space Ace cartoon which was based off the game of the same name.
looks like the same animations as The Rescuers, All Dogs Go to Haven and Land Before Time. so cool. The saddest part of this is... knowing this sort of animation is compliantly dead and you'll never see anything new in this style because everyone that learned and could do this style are gone or too old to do it anymore. Now most everything is AI generated and boring... mannnnn.. i miss older stuff. So much more soul and love in it. So much more enjoyable and simple.
Yes dragons lair. It's a movie with interactive scenes. Press the wrong cue and you die. They were insanely popular in the day. Now they are just nostalgia for really hard games. You could even buy these on VHS tapes. Press left and right on your TV remote.
@@azinyefantasy4445 first time I hear about it on VHS. How would that work technically when it needs to jump to a death scene or restart the scene? There's a reason these were made for the laser disc initially.
_Twas brillig, and the slithy toves_ _Did gyre and gymble in the wabe_ _All mimsy were the borogoves_ _And the mome raths outgrabe_ The first lines of the poem “Jabberwocky”
How could anyone focus on the gameplay with all this beautiful animation? I freaking love 80's Don Bluth!
how DO you play Dragon’s Lair? i never got to play it. do you click on the yellow shimmery bits to make decisions?
@zitrodivad the arcade cabinet had a joystick that you would move towards the flashing prompt to make a move. You also had a button for the sword to press when it flashed on screen.
I think that was the point: These arcade games were made specifically to eat stacks and stacks of quarters.
@@WillDraco ...and it was a golden age...
I was a teenager when I saw my BF play this in the arcade. He called it an acid trip. He wasn't wrong!
this was in arcades too? awesome. i only ever saw it on my cousin’s computer
@@zitrodivad Yes, over 30 years ago. I hear the arcade cabinet is rare now.
Dirk’s mother: Dirk, find Daphne or else!
Dirk: Woman, I would be able to do it easier, if you weren’t trying to bludgeon me with a damn rolling pin!
Actually I think she was Daphne's mother. If not, her former nanny maybe?
Her quote "I raised the princess to marry a frog!" is the only explanation to their relationship.
@@RekEStore32 Well, it doesn't really make much of a difference. She was still trying to kill him even though she was telling him to look for his wife.
@@RekEStore32 She also literally says, "You better find my daughter, or ELSE!" So yeah, she's Daphne's Mom.
@@RekEStore32did you miss her saying “find my daughter” at the start? 💀
10 minutes? The whole thing actually lasts only ten minutes?
So, the secret win condition of the game is to not die from a seizure while watching it
This dude went through more trouble saving Daphne then Link went through with saving Zelda 💀
I think it's more that this guy never got a break. Link went through more total, but Link could stop and take a breather now and then. Heck, he could even take a day off in most games. Playing games, fishing, relaxing on his own private island, sprucing up his own house and horseback riding....
@@WorldWalker128yeah but he never got the girl for real
@@oldred2470he did tho
Am I the only one who wants to see an Alice in Wonderland interpretation from Don Bluth?
I like to see any interpretation from Don Bluth. I just adore the art style.
times future movie alice in wonderland 2010 alice's attack boss dragon
Don Bluth also has always wanted to produce a Dragon’s Lair feature length movie since the 1980s but it never happened due to funding issues however he recently tried to bring back the project by doing a Kickstarter campaign to back the production of it! :)
I remember there was a TV series at some point
No one animates like Bluth. The facial expressions and mouth movements are unique to his style. Event the character design is all Bluth. Amazing work.
First time seeing this and didn't even know there was a dragon's lair 2. Don's animation is amazing as always and love the Alice in wonderland homage from his time at Disney.
5:48 😂Why did Beethoven just turn into Elton John?
That's some real impressive animation but how the actual hell was anyone expected to play this? Those quick time events are absurdly quick. Talk about a quarter muncher.
The sign of a good arcade game.
The most unforgotten videogame with QTE (Quick Time Event). And know as interactive action scenes
The animation is beautiful! I love it all except Daphnie’s scream. It’s so high pitched it hurts to hear and you are not sure when it’s coming so you can’t really lower the volume.
As a kid, I finished the first one and Space Ace. I never actually got through DL2. I kinda wish they'd make games like this now.
Even though the Jabberwocky never appeared in the Alice in Wonderland animated film, there is completed artwork for it. As a kid, I remember through an animated book using the Disney pictures and they also included the Jabberwocky.
Can I just tell you how many *hours* I spent playing this 10 minute game?
It was a lot. A lot of hours.
The Switch struggles.
I remember there was a crowd funding campaign for Don Bluth to get this made into a film. What happened?
You saw the "Daphne" mummy bait-and-switch coming but it was hilarious all the same!
Didn’t the game originally demand that you pick up ALL the treasures before you could get to the end?
This is the directors cut
Don Blueth animation scared me, mainly the earthquake scenes. There's just something terrifying about watching the earth rise and crumble like that and he captured it beautifully.
There were aspects of it that were creepy for me too. Especially in American Tale
I mean, his world is so full of crumbling architecture and persistent threats that it's hard to imagine that it actually stops between games. Maybe that's just HIS LIFE.
On the other hand, that's just so many freaking kids with a wife who still looks like that, so obviously there are some benefits.
Those aren’t their kids, those are Daphne’s siblings 💀
Just had to add the lil bit of misogyny tho didn’t ya
@@KingOfGaymes
"His world is a constant Maelstrom of chaos and death, but I imagine his enduringly beautiful wife provides him comfort"
Whether I interpreted the situation correctly or not, how is that sentiment misogynistic? I'm legitimately asking.
@@KingOfGaymes the kids say "Mom", "Dad" at the end
@@THATGuy5654 I guess some people figure any appreciation of physical beauty is a form of objectification.
And yeah, those are obviously Dirk's and Daphne's kids. The boys look like and are even dressed like him. And why would Daphne's siblings join them on that joyride at the end? Talk about a bunch of third wheels. Or, rather... third through thirteenth wheels, by my count?
So, in summary... yeah, that guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
EDIT: Third through _fourteenth!_
EDIT 2: Okay, there appear to be nine boys and three girls on the time machine at the end, but in the previous scene we see four girls, so they must have at least thirteen kids (for a total of fifteen wheels if all are present). I hope that missing girl is just hidden amid the rest and didn't get left behind...
So the knight ended up going through Wonderland and ends up in a version of Eden that's guarded by multiple copies of Cupid for some reason.
Biblical cherubs, actually. They're where we got the weird "Winged baby angel" thing.
@@Jaffersin No. The biblical cherub looks nothing like that. Cupid was looted for Renaissance paintings.
The actual cherub is a giant bronze with goat legs and four heads: Head of a man, an eagle, an ox, and a lion.
Good grief and people said for a time that the Cuphead game was difficult. Imo this was definitely the inspiration for the latter. Only Dragon's Lair was much harder 😂
Finally I get to know how it ends. But it still doesn't explain what Elton John was doing there.
Damn! Derick got buzzyy!
It took me forever and sooooo many quarters, but i finally made it to the end.....
0:09 Jeez, that mother insane
Yea she tried to kill what the heck don bluth was thinking he his team did right Idea 😒
Don Bluth will never make me frown.
I never played this but I really love the idea of watching an animated movie with some gameplay elements. Really interesting ^^
Aww, what a loving husband! I love this story and the fact it was done by Don Bluth is amazing!
For a woman who wants Dirk to rescue her daughter, Daphne's mom sure seems to want to kill him before he can even try.
Amazing, wouldn't have imagined this was a video game
So is this just the hardest game ever made or what?
Imagine having such killer reflexes, that you beat this game blind on your very first quarter.
Would take great luck too, because the flashes are sometimes ambiguous. When it's down and right of you, do you input Right or Down? 😮
@@leokhorn I would just assume diagonal, but I suppose that's not an option? I've never played either of these games, so I have no idea.
Do they still make games like this? I would be really interested to see how far they could push this format, with modern tools.
Not anymore
Only in Quick Time Events does this form of gameplay live on. I've never seen a spiritual successor to these games.
Omg I’m not even playing it and I could feel the anxiety
8:11 is that Ursula the sea witch?
Don Bluth musta had one hell of a hay day creating this game with the company.
Played this one for the first time on iOS in 2012. This one has WAY too many actions to take per minute, with no room to breath until the very, very end.
I don't think this is actually gameplay. Because you can't hear the action sounds. This just seems like the option where you can just watch the game autoplay. Also you can't really Finnish the game without obtaining all the treasures. Something I don't see happening here. I first played the game as a CD Rom game on the PC and later as a DVD. So I'm pretty familiar with the game options. Just saying.
When the game looks better than the cartoon lol! No seriously...I remember in the early days of Cartoon Network and Boomerang they actually showed episodes of the Dragon's Lair cartoon based off the first game...iirc each episode had a "if Dirk had chosen to do this" moment that showed Dirk's failure...they did not do this for the Space Ace cartoon which was based off the game of the same name.
Hal Smith did various voices in this game.
Wait. This is a GAME? An actual VIDEO GAME? Not a movie?
This game isn't so hectic when you just watch it,trying to keep up with all the screen action flashs can drive you crazy when you play it...
Still great
looks like the same animations as The Rescuers, All Dogs Go to Haven and Land Before Time. so cool. The saddest part of this is... knowing this sort of animation is compliantly dead and you'll never see anything new in this style because everyone that learned and could do this style are gone or too old to do it anymore. Now most everything is AI generated and boring... mannnnn.. i miss older stuff. So much more soul and love in it. So much more enjoyable and simple.
god damn bro, your pullout game be weak
What did i just watch?? Is this an actual game ???
What Visual Novel used to be before Jizzpan fucked up everything
Yes dragons lair. It's a movie with interactive scenes. Press the wrong cue and you die. They were insanely popular in the day. Now they are just nostalgia for really hard games. You could even buy these on VHS tapes. Press left and right on your TV remote.
Damn sounds awesome
@@cristsan4171okay racist
@@azinyefantasy4445 first time I hear about it on VHS. How would that work technically when it needs to jump to a death scene or restart the scene?
There's a reason these were made for the laser disc initially.
Dragon's lair gives me Ralph bakshi vibes
THE VIDEO JUST STARTED & PEOPLE ARE ALREADY AIMING TO STRIKE HIM HARSHLY 💀☠️
The animation is so good.
It was done by Don Bluth, whom also was behind movies like All Dogs Go to Heaven, An American Tale, The Land Before Time, and Anastasia.
4:26
3:47 Given that Don Bluth is a devote Mormon, i am surprised that he made the angel so gay sounding
I think trying to impersonate a celebrity voice,but to us came out sounding gay
There are effeminate men that aren't gay.
would love to see Sierra's Quest for Glory animated film by Bluth
This looks insanely hard.
8:29 SO satisfying!
OMG
My dad tried playing this, wasted a whole $3 just trying to get to the castle
If only there was a way to edit out the yellow flashes.
This version has a lot of Disney references.
Don Bluth used to work for Disney so that could be why.
This guy is so bad at using his sword. He keeps slashing at hordes of enemies but they keep warming because he never actually hits them.
Seriously, how's Dirk supposed to save Daphne if the old lady is trying to kill him while telling him to save Daphne? Women, I tell ya! 🙄
I GOT IT!! secret of nimh. oh you know what? sword in the stone too.
The most wth game ever
Wow. No whay to know what the heck is going to happen next.
Does anyone know what the cat is saying in the Alice in wonderland scene?
Jabberwocky poem by Lewis carol
_Twas brillig, and the slithy toves_
_Did gyre and gymble in the wabe_
_All mimsy were the borogoves_
_And the mome raths outgrabe_
The first lines of the poem “Jabberwocky”
@@Azurada23rdAlso, it's the song he sings in the Disney adaptation.
wait..I thought that was lava?
its still boiling tho, jumping in that is death.
2:18 is that mother fucking Godzilla?
10 minutes de pur Sakuga !
The only don bluth movie as a game
Actually, there’s more.
Podiam fazer um filme ou serie dele?
wtf it was imposible to finish the first screen...
2:19 Reptar!?
my eyes
4:04
2:18 is that mother fucking Godzilla?
6:24