History VideoGame / DragonsLair

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: In both Level 2 and Level 6.

It should be noted that ''Dragon's Lair'' [[OlderThanTheyThink was not the first laser disc game ever made]] (that honor belongs to a UsefulNotes/HorseRacing game called ''Quarter-Horse''), but it ''was'' the one that started it all. It was also the first ever video game to (initially) cost 50 cents (i.e., two quarters) to play.[[note]]Not the first ''arcade'' game, however -- that honor goes to Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/BlackHole'' pinball from 1981.[[/note]]

The game itself has garnered a place in the Smithsonian Institution, and has had umpteen versions on home consoles, PC systems, smartphones and even homemade hacks adding further scenes and adventures. It also had an AnimatedAdaptation on Creator/{{ABC}}, courtesy of Ruby-Spears (Bluth had no involvement in it). The Coleco Adam version, ''Super Dragon's Lair'', was notable for its then-revolutionary use of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics raster graphics]].

Now available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* GaidenGame: ''Dragon's Lair: The Legend'' is a UsefulNotes/GameBoy side story about Dirk recovering shattered pieces of the Life Stone after an attack on Daphne's caravan. A traitor had informed Mordroc's army of the caravan carrying the Life Stone, and one of Daphne's maids, before dying, used her sorcery to shatter the Life Stone and spread pieces of it across the land. Dirk must recover all the pieces of the Life Stone and awaken the Dormant Knight in order to face Mordroc's army. Since the game is a reskin of the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum game ''Rollercoaster'', and no other games reference this story, ''Dragon's Lair: The Legend'' has been regarded as [[FanonDiscontinuity discontinuity]].

* IrisOut: The game over sequences end with a traditional "contracting circle" iris out on whatever grisly fate has befallen Dirk this time.

* DirtyKid: In the Eden level, the Cherubs - who look no older than kindergartners - seem a little ''too'' interested in climbing around on Dirk, tickling him, and holding him down and spanking him.

* FluffyCloudHeaven: The exterior of the Garden of Eden.

* GuideDangIt: The player must collect various treasures throughout the game in order to get to the final level and finish the game, and one of these is the notorious golden butterfly [[note]]It's during the Beethoven level, and it flashes right underneath a dragon's fire breath...an element that's ''already glowing!''[[/note]]. It's so well hidden that the [=PS3=] version of the game contains a trophy for nabbing it on your first run through the game.

* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Every time Eve says "Adam!" while calling after Dirk, '''[[JustForFun/IReadThatAs the subtitles say "Apple!"]]'''

* ScreenShake: When Eve is [[Ballet prancing]] after Dirk, every time she lands on the ground there's an earthquake.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: A section of [[Literature/TheBible The Garden of Eden]] involves escaping the obese Eve, who thinks Dirk is Adam. Since Dirk is already married to Daphne and is on a quest to rescue her again, escaping from Eve is completely justified.

* AndCallHimGeorge: Failing to dodge Eve causes Dirk to be hugged to death.

* MarshmallowHell: Dirk gets zapped to the Book of Genesis, occupied by fat campy angels and [[CuteBruiser an aggressive]], [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/6db6be74af23da0d85a5d956e541a890/tumblr_pp9eujzVDe1sgpajbo1_1280.jpg obese Eve]]. If caught by her, you get a cutscene of Eve {{glomp}}ing onto Dirk, followed by a game over. Since this cutscene doesn't end in death, some theorize that Dirk suffocated to death in her breasts, but it also implies that he was forced to spend the rest of his life with her in the past.

* ScreenShake: When Eve is prancing after Dirk, every time she lands on the ground there's an earthquake.

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* OffModel:
** When Daphne wakes up and is reunited with Dirk she knocks off his helmet and loses both her shoes. They randomly regain and lose both items in the final scenes at the game's end.
** One very glaring (but, given the game's breakneck pacing, easy to miss) continuity error can be seen in the opening sequence--when Daphne's Mother is chasing Dirk, in the scene right after Dirk mounts his horse and takes off, she is suddenly riding an ox literally out of nowhere!
** Beethoven's cat knocks a candle off the piano early on in stage 5, the candle is back in its original position but a moment later.
** In the mud swamp scene early in the game, there's a shot where Dirk is being carried by a pteranodon toward Mordroc's position, Mordroc can be heard shouting at and taunting Dirk, but he completely freezes in place, not moving his body or his mouth at all.

* OffModel: If you die in the SurpriseSlideStaircase level, as Dirk slides down, he has a large, bulbous GagNose.

[[caption-width-right:314: Saving princesses a few years before [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Mario]] or [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] made it cool.]]

The game itself has garnered a place in the Smithsonian Institution, and has had umpteen versions of home consoles, PC systems, smartphones and even homemade hacks adding further scenes and adventures. It also had an AnimatedAdaptation on Creator/{{ABC}}, courtesy of Ruby-Spears (Bluth had no involvement in it). The Coleco Adam version, ''Super Dragon's Lair'', was notable for its then-revolutionary use of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_graphics raster graphics]].