| 1982
(Early) |
Rick Dyer begins developing a game
entitled Dragon's Lair. He employs writers and storyboard
artists to assemble a concept for Dirk the Daring,
the Magic Castle, a dragon, and a beautiful princess.
|
| 1982
(October) |
Rick and Cinematronics' president,
Jim Pearce, approach Don Bluth Productions (Don
Bluth/Gary Goldman) to become a partner in the creation
of this historic laser disc game. |
| 1983
(March) |
Dragon's Lair is the hit of the Chicago
Game Convention. |
| 1983
(June) |
Tthe first Dragon's Lair arcade coin-op
games ship to arcades across North America (including
Canada). The success of Dragon's Lair breaths new
life into the arcade industry and ushers in a new
series of games. The title becomes a household name
and licenses are granted for lunch boxes, children's
sleepwear, stickers, collector's cards and board
games. In 1984, a TV series is created and airs
that same year, then followed by a vast number of
video game versions for home entertainment... |
| 1984 |
Dragon's Lair for Coleco Adam (cartridge)
|
| 1987 |
Dragon's Lair for Commodore 64 (cassette)
|
| 1987 |
Dragon's Lair (Escape From Singe's
Castle)
for Commodore 64 (floppy disk) |
| 1989 |
Dragon's Lair for the Commodore Amiga
(floppy disk) |
| |
Dragon's Lair (Escape From Singe's
Castle) for Commodore Amiga (floppy disk) |
| 1990 |
Dragon's Lair for Macintosh Plus
/ SE (floppy disk) |
| |
Dragon's Lair for Nintendo NES |
| |
Dragon's Lair for Nintendo Game Boy®
|
| |
Dragon's Lair for Atari ST |
| 1991 |
Dragon's Lair for PC (floppy disk) |
| |
Dragon's Lair (Escape from Singe's
Castle)
for PC (floppy disk) |
| 1992 |
Dragon's Lair (Escape from Singe's
Castle) for Macintosh II and LC (floppy disk) |
| |
Dragon's Lair (The Curse of Mordroc)
for PC (floppy disk) |
| |
Dragon's Lair (The Curse of Mordred)
for Macintosh II and LC (floppy disk) |
| |
Dragon's Lair for Nintendo Super NES
|
| 1993 |
Dragon's Lair for Sega CD (CD) |
| |
Dragon's Lair for PC (CD-ROM) |
| |
Dragon's Lair for 3DO (CD) |
| 1994 |
Dragon's Lair for MAC (CD-ROM) |
| |
Dragon's Lair for CD-I (CD) |
| 1995 |
Dragon's Lair for Atari Jaguar |
| 1997 |
Dragon's Lair Deluxe Pack for PC
(CD-ROM) |
| |
Dragon's Lair DVD-ROM for PC (DVD-ROM)
|
| 1998 |
Dragon's Lair DVD-Video for home DVD
players (DVD) |
| 2000 |
Dragon's Lair for Nintendo Game Boy®
Color |
| 2001 |
Dragon's Lair Arcade Authentic for
PC (CD-ROM) |
| 2002 |
Dragon's Lair 3D for PlayStation®2,
Nintendo GameCube™, Xbox™, PC (CD-ROM),
MAC |
ragon's Lair, the world's first full-animation laser disc video
game - debuted in 1983. The game features Dirk the Daring, a
rather clumsy knight that must make his way through the castle
of an evil wizard to save the beautiful Princess Daphne. The
game's visionary team of creators (Don Bluth, Rick Dyer, Gary
Goldman, John Pomeroy and Chris Stone) was astounded by the
public's overwhelming enthusiasm and witnessed lines as long
as several city blocks as people of all ages waited to play
the game. A quote from a Newsweek article (August 8,1983) best
captures the incredible level of excitement displayed during
that time:
