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Dragons Lair on the Amiga - How a laserdisc game fit onto 6 floppy disks

Dragon's Lair, originally released for arcades in 1983 by Cinematronics. It uses laserdisc technology, offering greatly superior graphics compared to other video games at the time. The game was ported to several other platforms, but as no home system technology of that era could accommodate the graphical quality of LaserDisc. But there was one port of the game that stood above the rest and was a faithful recreation of the laserdisc original. That version was the Commodore Amiga release from 1983. In this episode we deep dive and take a look at how Dragon's Lair on the Amiga came to be.

English
  • Originally Aired November 14, 2022
  • Runtime 18 minutes
  • Production Code dyiwHF67Gvg
  • Network YouTube
  • Created November 14, 2022 by
    shriek
  • Modified November 14, 2022 by
    shriek