Dragon’s Lair (Blu-ray)
Dragon’s Lair HD delivers the fun, tongue-in-cheek medieval adventure that made the original arcade games a hit. The Dragon’s Lair games were the first fully-animated arcade games, and were favorites in the 1980s. Now the funny, fast action gaming experience is available on your Playstation 3, with the added bonus of HD technology. Sharper images, DVD-style bonuses and no more annoying pauses at decision points - all making a classic game even better. Comes with full-length visual commentary on the game All special features presented in 1080p
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Dragon’s Lair Looks Amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a Fantasic game. I remember playing this when it came out, miles ahead of anything in it’s time.
The Bluray version is the best yet, so clear and very sharp, great looking colour, far better then the original game ever looked.
The sound is in 5.1 surounded sound and much better then the mono track the DVD verison had.
As far as extras go, they could have had more so a bit thin on the extras.
I play this on the Playstation 3 and plays perfectly with the firmware update 2.60.
I notice there is far less pausing then the DVD version.
Dragons Lair is better then the reviews given, but must state that if you can remember Dragons Lair and playing it, then you will most likely love this version, the best yet.
Love the colours, nice and bright and stand out, not washed out colours like the previous versions.
I am running this in 1080i and still looks nice and sharp, as well as colourful.
I enjoy this game, but not in long bursts, great for a quick game, well worth buying I feel, especally if you have found memories of Dragon’s Lair.
5 Stars dragon’s lair rocking
Dragon’s Lair (Blu-ray)
Outstanding conversion superior to the arcade original. Special features are satisfying.
There were many reviews suggesting buggs so I contacted digital leisure before I bought DL and they reassured me that with all the updates the PS3 would play without a gliche. At first my sound was dropping out but I discovered that by changing the PS3 sound output setting from bitstream to linear everything worked perfectly. Stunning picture and full 5.1 surround I could not be more satisfied with DL.
I bought my product new from Amazon and was gobsmacked when it arrived in just 4 working days from Texas to Australia! Must have been sent through the most efficient means possible.
People were paying $4000.00 for the DL arcade unit in the 80’s and now you can play on a better screen and sound for chicken feed. Most highly recommended game ever made!
3 Stars Works for my ps3
I guess they did clean up the picture quality some, but it is still a little grainy, and not crisp hd quality if your wondering. The only true hd quality picture is the continue query screen. I personally found the timing to be to early for a good experience in the game. You have to know and make the move before you actually see its time to move ( maybe not all scenes, but most ).
All that said, it still is probably the best version, I guess I just dont care about the game anymore.
3 Stars Don’t trade your old one in just yet…
Just a heads up on this, I’m having the exact same issue that the PS3 owners are having with my brand new Panasonic blue ray player. If your main reason for buying this on blue ray is to play it, I’d be very care full, playing it on a regular player doesn’t necessarily eliminate the problem the PS3 owners are having. I’ve tweeked it every which way in the set up menu and I still fall short of being able to actually play it. But if all you want to do is watch it or check out the features for the memories, your going to be very happy with this, it looks and sounds amazing!
Oh and just to let you know, the features on the old DVD like all the old arcade footage from the 80’s is not on the blue ray. Overall I’m very dissapointed.
5 Stars Best translation of the arcade besides an actual laser disc!
Well, I finally got my copy of my all-time favorite video game and I was VERY pleased to see that this is the best translation of the laser-disc game from the arcade period. The color saturation is excellent although the images are a little grainy. Sometimes you can see some blurring of images, but the response time is instantaneous! On my computer blu-ray drive, it’s a little too fast and sometimes you don’t see Dirk resurrecting. Overall, it’s the best implementation you are going to get these days.
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