Dragon's Lair

Don Bluth animation on laserdisc, interaction reduced to a timed prompt.

Released 1983 Developer Advanced Microcomputer Systems Publisher Cinematronics Platform Arcade Genre Interactive movie Era The home cartridge

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Narrative · 1983

Quick-Time Event

A quick-time event asks for a specific input at a specific moment during an otherwise non-interactive sequence, reduci…

Origin: Dragon's Lair

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Dragon's Lair inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Lives and Continues ~~1978~~Coin-Op Difficulty Economy ~~1978~~Attract-Mode Premise ~~1980~~

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