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The bold and the beautiful.

Dragon's Lair Trilogy is now available DRM-free on GOG.com. It contains both Dragon's Lair games, plus their sci-fi cousin Space Ace.

Even if you've never tried Dragon's Lair or Dragon's Lair: Time Warp before, it's hard to ignore their pop-culture footprint. A pretty straightforward story of a heroic knight braving all sorts of traps to save a princess in distress, made into an arcade legend thanks to the fluid animation, beautiful cartoon visuals, and...erm...challenging QTEs that bankrupted many a wee lad.

Its sci-fi counterpart, Space Ace, stars the intrepid Ace as he tries to grow the hell up and win back the lovely Kimberly. Would be nice if he could also thwart Borf's unsavory plan and save the rest of humanity from being reduced to defenseless infants.

All three games have been remastered and contain sweet extras, like interviews with the creators or insights on how their amazing animation came to be.
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Can someone from GOG please comment on what version/quality these releases are. Digital Leisure have released a plethora of versions of these games over the years with each iteration typically having higher resolution. Are these simply the same 720p (DVD) quality versions as those sold on Steam? Or are they the 1080p HD versions with 5.1 surround sound? What video aspect ratios are included? The game card is sadly lacking with ANY details.

The best releases, in my opinion, were the 1080p Blu-ray versions (with one caveat). These included by far the best "remastered" visuals (much better than even the original laserdiscs) and also had the audio in 5.1 surround sound. However, a major flaw with the Dragon's Lair Blu-ray is that it only included cropped and zoomed widescreen (1.78) video thus losing significant portions of the top and bottom of the original 4:3 (1.33) image. This was corrected with the Dragon's Lair II and Space Ace Blu-rays which included both Widescreen (1.78) and Anamorphic (1.33) remastered footage. The best version of Dragon's Lair (again in my opinion) is the Dragon's Lair HD PC DVD-ROM version that not only included the remastered 1080p footage and 5.1 surround sound but also came with Widescreen, Fullscreen and Anamorphic video.
Oh, these games. i Have completed Space ace on the ps3, i gave up on Dragons lair at the boss dragon. Maybe il pick it up to finally complete the damn thing. Also, i havent played the second Dragons lair game.
I wishlisted it but I won't buy this for more than $5 personally. To me I wasted enough quarters on this in my youth and bought it all on the Amiga on floppy disks (it was like 3-4 floppy disks per game), so unless it's super cheap I can't see myself buying it only because I really don't like QTE anymore. It was a unique game back when it was released, but now it's at best worth $5 to me for nostalgia's sake alone.
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ikrananka: Can someone from GOG please comment on what version/quality these releases are. Digital Leisure have released a plethora of versions of these games over the years with each iteration typically having higher resolution. Are these simply the same 720p (DVD) quality versions as those sold on Steam? Or are they the 1080p HD versions with 5.1 surround sound? What video aspect ratios are included? The game card is sadly lacking with ANY details.
Given the 4.1 gb file size, I doubt these are 1080p. I'd imagine these are the same versions sold on Steam.
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Remember seeing them for the Atari ST but never thought much of them. May buy at some point though not for that price.
Wow, wow, wow!
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None of these are games. They are literally movies. Selling them as games is a misrepresentation of what they are. Their appearance here proves that GOG curation literally has no point to exist since it even allows non-games through.
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aluinie: Remember seeing them for the Atari ST but never thought much of them. May buy at some point though not for that price.
It's worth noting that almost all the 80s - early 90s home console/computer ports were garbage and I'm not sure why they even bothered back then - given that the arcade cabinet was literally a Laserdisc player with a cartoon movie disc on it, that had some basic programming to make the thing sort of function as a game.

It was only when CD-ROM drives became a thing that they started to become even remotely close to arcade-perfect - that is if you could put up with the horrendous video and audio compression.
Post edited July 24, 2018 by pbaggers
the abomination from the computer game hell - Cleanse it with FIRE!!!!!
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: None of these are games. They are literally movies. Selling them as games is a misrepresentation of what they are. Their appearance here proves that GOG curation literally has no point to exist since it even allows non-games through.
I don't know, Amazon and other stores put them under the category 'Video games' as well...
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pbaggers: It was only when CD-ROM drives became a thing that they started to become even remotely close to arcade-perfect - that is if you could put up with the horrendous video and audio compression.
Which is where the remastered HD versions excel. Remastered from the original film, much less compression and they now exceed the quality of the original laserdiscs by a significant margin.
£17!!! Hahahahaha!!!
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pbaggers: It was only when CD-ROM drives became a thing that they started to become even remotely close to arcade-perfect - that is if you could put up with the horrendous video and audio compression.
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ikrananka: Which is where the remastered HD versions excel. Remastered from the original film, much less compression and they now exceed the quality of the original laserdiscs by a significant margin.
Well, yeah. Laserdiscs were somewhere between a DVD and a Blu-Ray in terms of audio/video quality, so even the 720p versions on Steam (and assumedly here) should look better than how it looked originally.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: None of these are games. They are literally movies. Selling them as games is a misrepresentation of what they are. Their appearance here proves that GOG curation literally has no point to exist since it even allows non-games through.
depends completely on how you define what a game is. As far as I am concerned - a game needs a goal, have rules, have interactivity and some form of conflict. These are clearly games in this view, even though with low interactivity.
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wolfsite: Depends on the scene but they pretty much happen every few seconds with a very short window to perform the action.
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XYCat: lol sounds harsh :D
It is extremely challenging and you have to be VERY quick to press the key in question at the right time. Wrong moment or wrong key and you'll die. This game must have made millions for arcade owners :)