Dragon's Lair heading to DSiWare?

By Tom Bramwell Published 14 October, 2009

USK posting suggests as much.

Super-old laserdisc adventure Dragon's Lair may be about to make a long-overdue appearance on DS, according to details on the German ratings board website.

Curiously, the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle site lists the game for DSi, suggesting it might be heading to DSiWare and not retail. (Thanks GamerBytes.)

It's not the first we've heard of Dragon's Lair for DS, incidentally - it was originally announced in mid-2007 for release later that year, while an equally non-existent PSP version was mooted a few months later.

The original Dragon's Lair was a mixture of at-the-time-amazing animated sequences and intermittent player actions, and is considered by most to be the granddaddy of quick-time events.

Not that it's really stood the test of time. Check out our creaky Dragon's Lair 3D: Special Edition review to see how a relatively recent revamp ended up.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Macross #1 2 years ago

    lol, where hasnt dragon's lair headed to?

  • kipper #2 2 years ago

    Is there anyone who has fond memories of Dragon's Lair and would happily pay good money to play it again?
    My memories are of putting a few 10p's in the machine and then dying a few seconds later for no apparent or fair reason.
    There are many arcade games that bring back happy memories, but DL is not one of them.

  • Tetsuo_Shima #3 2 years ago

    The only Dragon's Lair I ever played was the platformer on my NES, and that was SOLID. Fun, but utterly unforgiving. I've never played this quick-time adventure one.

  • TheBiGW #4 2 years ago

    The great thing about the arcade was all the different death animations. Which you got to see a lot of. I believe some of the home console versions took those out and replaced them with a generic animation, and that sucked a lot of the fun out of the game. Plus the loading screens. Perhaps the dsiware version will be a faithful conversion, but with tight filesize limits I won't hold my breath.

  • jim1975 #5 2 years ago

    a perfect version of the sequel to dragon lair Space Ace has been available on the iphone for a while now and is only £3. which is still pretty expensive as from start to finish its about 10 mins long. and their is no gamplay to speak of. still fun the first time through though

  • viper_h #6 2 years ago

    lol yeah I played the NES one too. Take one step. Die. Rinse and repeat.

    Reminds me of that "Waterworld" game from The Simpsons that one time... "You are dead. Insert 40 quarters to continue."
    Edited by 1 at 14/10/09 @ 11:34

  • mingster #7 2 years ago

    I actually completed the original arcade laser disc version recently
    using the Daphne Laser Disc emulator for PC.

  • schnide #8 2 years ago

    Or you could just get a PS3 and wait for Heavy Rain.

    ;)

  • el_pollo_diablo #9 2 years ago

    They should have ported Another World (and/or Flashback) instead.

  • NorUraeus #10 2 years ago

    You can get Dragons Lair for the PS3 already in the form of a Blu-Ray version.

  • kinky_mong #11 2 years ago

    I had the SNES Dragon's Lair. Good lord that was a terrible game. Awful controls and dodgy collision detection.

  • Dark_Stranger #12 2 years ago

    not forgetting "Space Ace"

  • thewool #13 2 years ago

    Well I'm pleased as I love Dragon's Lair :0)

    but I haven't got a DSi :0(

    el pollo - Another World was ported for the GBA which means you can run it on a DS with a homebrew cart