Dragon’s Lair comes to the iPhone and iPod Touch

December 9th, 2009 admin

To date, Dragon’s Lair — that “classic” quarter sucker of inexplicable and catastrophic player death animated by Don Bluth and first released to arcades in 1983 — is available for over 59 different platforms. Now you can make it sixty: Dragon’s Lair has officially been released for the iPhone. Dragon’s Lair has never been much of a “video game” as we commonly understand the term: it’s cheap and nearly impossible to beat without a walkthrough. The original arcade version, in fact, was more like a machine that — for a single quarter — would pleasantly show you about twenty seconds of attractive animation, suddenly deliver a rousing haymaker to the groin, then prompt you to insert another quarter. On the iPhone, Dragon’s Lair delivers the same experience, but …


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