This Mini Dragon's Lair Arcade Machine+LaserDisc Player
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2020
- Setting up and enjoying the 1/6 scale Dragon's Lair Replicade cabinet from New Wave Toys. Which has a TINY LASERDISC PLAYER INSIDE IT, AHHH
Here's the site for it: newwavetoys.com/products/drag...
Back in the 80's, when I was a kid, I played the hell out of this game, and it's gotten to the point where even now, in my early 50's, I still have every section of that game memorized. I can beat that game with one life. Two lives on a badly coordinated day. I remember the first time I saw this game in the arcades and I swore someday that I would own one so I could play it at home. I never was able to get an actual arcade unit, but I've been able to play that game on my computer for years.
I could have written this myself, because that's exactly how I feel (and same age, LOL). I still remember the first time I finished the game; I felt like I was walking on air as I headed home :). Like you, I wanted but never could get an actual arcade cabinet -- they cost way too much money on Ebay now. So I sprung for one of these replicas when they released a second set. It now sits on a shelf above my computer desk, so I can look at it as I work, and set it for a game or two once in a while.
Right there with you brotha, I have the iircade version, but this "pocket" version is a big hit, love it!
I seem to remember it was a 2 coin game. After spending a couple bucks and barely swinging across the bridge. I realized I might enjoy watching others play the game and live vicariously through their quarters 🙂
That tiny laser disk is adorable.
It cannot be real. First of all, it would have be MP4 or something, not NTSC, second, you can't just pick up and turn a spinning disk. If you do this, you risk destroying the disk because it is basically a gyroscope.
As a kid, I looked at MiniDiscs and fully expected us to use 1-inch 500GB discs in the future.
A little sad that the LD labels are on the wrong sides unless the original was that way: the label is opposite the recorded material since the first players read only from the back side. That is, "Side 1" data is opposite the "Side 1" label and vice versa.
It is
@@JasonOlshefsky It's meant to look like that, the player is one of the few that read from the top rather than the bottom.
I played this game a few times back in the day and was dead before I knew what was happening. A crowd would grow around the game if anyone showed up and knew how to play it.
Same here, except I didn't know anyone who was good at it. I just remember it looking lonely next to Mortal Kombat.
When it first came out there was a long wait to get to play it. It was a couple of weeks later and I could walk up and play it because it was a disappointment. I think that I spent maybe five dollars on it before I went back to Asteroids. 🚀
I couldn't play Dragon's Lair worth a lick, but I could win Space Ace. And yes, there would literally be a crowd of people around by the end of the game, which really stoked my 10-year-old ego. One time my mom finished getting groceries and was waiting on me, so as soon as I finished the final winning move I worked my way out of the crowd and let them finish watching the end scene.
@@daneast that used to be a big thing back in the days. Our village never had arcade machines but the market area did which was where our school used to be and happened to be everyone's go to area during 30 minute break for which everyone waited. One time there was a guy who wanted to finish Midnight resistance one way or the other and kept dropping game coins but couldn't get it done... All the onlookers were so dissapointed because otherwise he was a pretty decent player overall but the difficulty level in the arcade cabinet was that you cannot kill the last boss with your default gun... Another one was the Altered Beast but over the time everyone playing the game could finish it some people requiring only one coin
Yeah, I couldn't play it worth a crap back in the day either, but fifteen or so years ago I got the Game Boy Color version, and between a lot of practice and remembering the moves from an old "how to beat Dragon's Lair" pamphlet/book I had, I eventually got pretty good at the GBC version (which does not have as many moves to make per screen/room as the full arcade version.
Seeing this was pretty dang cool, especially with all the included detail!
This is exactly how I remembered playing Dragon's Lair... dying repeatedly.
The elevator shaft was the absolute worst for me.
Line the tiny quarters against the bottom of the screen to indicate that you have the next play.
Doin't forget the pool table :)
Oldschool
In my day , you put the quarter on the top marque and held your thumb on it.
TRUTHS
Bigfriendly15 yeah I remember that shyte here in middle Tennessee
Remembering the complete spinechilling awe when this came out in the arcade... then thinking on how this mini version is real..is simply mind blowing!
I always loved how Dirk looks at you during a game over like he's saying "Thou art play as a noob!" before he dies.
Oh my god, the detail on that thing is insane! I really didn't expect the LCD scoreboard.
This game was beautiful to see, and horrible to play.
i remember i saw this chinese guy playing through the whole thing at the local arcade hall...think he was working in that game company :)
@@bobfrode I never got past the start of the game i still don't how to advents past it
I remember the only time I tried it as a tween (a cabinet at a tourist site in the early nineties, in great condition!) I dumped 2 dollars in for one play, died in less than 5 seconds, and ended up staring at the thing in shock. I have no idea how anyone, anywhere, learned to play the game unless they were an independently wealthy masochist.
For perspective, that money was all the money I'd been given to grab a souvenir for the day and would have bought an Archie digest comic or 3 packs of trading cards
@@melskunk I was dumb i sunk 8 dollars
same but in a move theater
@@melskunk ...back in the day, I'd play the game in tandem with a friend. If I played, he'd learn where I'd fuck up and take note of that area. Then he would play and I would be the one taking notes. Until this day, I still haven't beaten Singe. Maybe deep inside, I don't want to advance.
It still is my favorite game. It probably took a big chunk of my youths money.
Does it come with a 1/6-scale “out of service” sign for realism?
"Our princess is in another cabinet"
I know. 😂
haha
🤣👍
Most of the out of order signs were because it was full of quarters and hadn't been emptied yet...lol
As a LaserDisc geek, that attention to detail on the player and disc is goddamn impressive.
It really does not share anything in common with a real laser disk?
The "laserdisc" in this toy cannot be real. Laserdisc is optical so if this was a laserdisc not only would the disc have to get smaller, but so would the wavelength of the laser. It's either got to be just for show, or it's an entirely different format, like MP4.
The game was just a series of animated scenes, and this was a "chose your own adventure" game. When you hit the appropriate button or joystick position at the appropriate point, you would chose what the next scene was.
Years back, I had this game running on my computer in a simulator. It was a series of video files that I could just pull up in a player, and go through them all. In fact, I think I did that.
@@fuzzywzhe Yeah there's no laser unit to be seen in the case. It's not real. For a moment I thought it may be an 8 cm CD-ROM, but it's smaller. And then I noticed that there is nothing inside to read it.
It's just a fake laserdisc, but the buttons, lazer, cabinet, aesthetics of the lazer disk player is dead on balls accurate
That's adorable. Having a little display of arcade machines with the screens running the demos? Just knowing the whole game is in there too? That's something I'd be into.
I remember the mall arcade I went to in Dallas had placed a second monitor above the Dragon's Lair machine which mirrored the game currently being played. There would be a crowd of 50 or so people watching that second display waiting for their turn to lose 50 cents in about 20 seconds
holy crap. i totally forgot, my arcade did that also. that was cool...
I remember when those came out in the arcades, there were lineups to play them. I was not a fan once I tried it, I might have played twice.
Exactly man,it looked fantastic-but more display demo and little game.
..at least Dragon's Lair was more appealing than Firefox, which was usually placed beside it.
_and_ it took 2 tokens! i remember getting very frustrated by the gameplay & decided it was just to expensive to play more of... quarter thief! 😂
It was definitely a lot more fun to watch someone else playing than wasting your own quarters on it. Can't really say that about most games. =)
The gameplay was as awful as the animation was amazing. If I ever played this thing it would have been dead-dead-dead-never again. But I did watch several people play it who knew what they were doing.
Hearing Clint giggle as the machine powers on makes me smile. This product was made for people like him.
I wouldn't get it but man I appreciate all the work they did to make it as faithful to the original machine.
I remember playing this and Space Ace in my local arcade back in the early 80's, and shoving a load of coins in the slots trying to get the character to move in the right direction. This game is very frustrating but strangely addictive at the same time :)
Noice. I kind of love how the "Home Arcade" scene has been seeing a renaissance as of late.
What does 'Noice' mean? (・_・;)
@@fionaneufeld7908 Just some stupid meme that everyone quotes.
@@zusurs It's a meme? I thought it was just a joke version of "Nice"
@@TheKillerMime I thought it wwas the aussie version of nice?
My all-time favorite arcade game, tied with Space Ace. The first time I got to Singe, I had one life left and had never seen anyone make it to that sequence. In an accomplishment of amazing personal heroism and skill, I persevered, made it through, and was suitably rewarded by the callapygian and pulchritudinous Princess Daphne, a feat that swells my heart with pride to this day.
They really went all-out on that, and it looks great!
Great purchase there.
If someone had said to me, "you could easily own a stand up arcade machine of Dragon's Lair" back in the 80's, I would have said "I'll never be that rich!" Lol!
The display of the screen was at a much higher resolution than I was expecting from such a small screen.
Well we are in the age of smartphones. Anything small can be HD now. It's impressive how far we've come.
The sound was pretty good as well.
Looks like 320x240 to me, judging by the menu screen. Remember that the DPI is going to be high (ish) on such a small screen, even with the bog-standard 320x240 resolution.
Open up a paint program and reduce an image to 486 × 440 pixels - that was the resolution on NTSC screens back then. Resolution is enormously higher today.
Be hard to replicate the CRT screens of yesteryear in that size.
OMG, that's so friggin cool, brings back so many memories of my arcade days.
I Kickstarted this last year for my dad for fathers day, he loves it. I love it uses miniature quarters
I was sent a video about this back in October courtesy of my daughter who knows I’ve been a DL fan since the original arcade game released in 1983 and I had to have it! This was on the top of my Christmas Wish List! I opened this on Christmas and have been playing it since. I can’t help but looking this replica over and over of the details just like the original full scale arcade game! I spent $$$’s on this game (50 cents for 1 Player, 3 Lives) in my day and the day came when I had finally beat “Singe” the Dragon! I love everything about this game ! Everything down to the mini laser disc and miniature coins! I dreamed of owning the actual game (in 1983). Who knew that nearly 40 years later, this replica with full functions as the original is close enough! Thanks for making this available and allowing me to relive my youth!
I saw an IRL dragons lair cabinet at a convention once and waited 15 minutes in line to play it. And was immediately disappointed lol.
You have to remember the time- it was 1983 and there was nothing like this in the arcades. Think Mappy, Mario Bros (not even *Super* Mario Bros yet), Gyruss... There were some color vector games, but besides those there was nothing reasonably high-resolution let alone laser disc quality. People really were lining up for the opportunity to pay 50 cents (double the vast majority of games) only to game over in under 20 seconds, then get back in line to try again. Also, this had to be one of the first times they would often put a screen on top of the game so people could watch. Yes, I was there and painstakingly memorized the required moves until I finally beat the dragon and rescued Daphne. Sadly, this was the only laser disc game I ever finished in the arcade. While I still spent tons on Space Ace which followed after Dragon's Lair, I never had the reflexes to complete it. And don't even get me started on Cliff Hanger- I never got more than 30 seconds into that one.
@Guy Incognito As someone who appreciates old arcade games, Dragon's Lair isn't a fun game.
But it IS a good movie.
@@nicksrandomreviews thats a perfect summary
@@QunMang Yeah, the difficulty on the later laserdisc games was ridiculous. And they went full psycho on Dragon's Lair 2, with the mandatory collectibles you have to pick up if you want to get the good ending, on top of already being stupidly hard.
@@jasonblalock4429 Interestingly, given the area I lived in (Chicago), I never encountered a Dragon's Lair II machine. When the game was released for the Amiga I thought at the time it was a computer sequel to the original game. It wasn't until later I learned of the arcade game's existence. The Amiga version was definitely quite difficult. The only way for me to see all the game was to use the cheat that has the game play itself ("GETMORDROKDIRK" I think- typed at some point- I don't remember, maybe the title screen).
Love it, hope they have one for Space Ace because they belong together if they do
You are so excited & happy in this video! I like your enthusiasm.
Even if this didn't play the game, it's almost worth it because of the detail in the miniatures.
I still fondly remember mastering this in the arcade at the MGM Grand in Reno while my mom and grandparents gambled. That was the first time I realized how much I love being in casinos.
For a moment I thought it would actually play on a mini-laser disc. Ultimate coolness.
Yes tear down
This miniature cabinet looks fantastic! This is by far the most detailed and beautiful replica that I have ever seen - actual working LED scoreboard and ultra-fine print on every decal was the cherry on the top of everything.
I bought this last month, absolutely awesome. Really put time into the detail. A definite must have for the collector.
I can't remember the last time I was this fascinated
I'll second that. If these guys made a range of just Laserdisc stuff I'd buy it.
I remember sucking at it in the arcade, and then this one kid came in and could play the whole game without dying once. Man, we'd crowd around and watch in awe.
This is so great. I still remember my first time seeing Dragons Lair in the arcade in the eighties. This was one I had to have and bought mine without hesitation. Great addition to my home arcade.
I'm one of those rare people that are really good at this game. I can usually beat it on just one credit :) I also had a laser disc player when I was growing up, so I really appreciate the incredible detail they put into it. That is an AMAZING Mini Arcade! I think the best one yet
No shot of your whole mini arcade "diorama"? LGR, I am disappoint.
Seriously though, that is really damn cool, if a bit pricey. Thanks for sharing!
We're all dissapoint.
All turned on, too, so it's a little noisy heck of an arcade :3
I was the guy you would watch in the arcade completing the game flawlessly. These were my favorites.
That's so freaking cool! Loved Dragon's Lair as a kid. Two of my favorite things combined, Cartoons and Arcade Games. I was really stoked when the actual cartoon series hit Saturday mornings.
Dude this is INCREDIBLE
This is such a beautiful piece of merch. Amazing!
This is amazing!! I'm so happy to see how far technology has come. I hope you enjoy the game!
Loved that game. Spent many hours with friends in the local arcade memorizing all of the moves for each screen. Revolutionary for its time, along with Space Ace and Thayer's Quest.
BTW can't recall the model, but the disk player was a Pioneer.
Pioneer PR-7820.
Most LD players are Pioneers :P
@@kaitlyn__L but it was built with that model. All DL, SA, and TQ games had only that one model. No others worked.
@@0311Mushroom indeed, I was just being facetious :)
@@kaitlyn__L tis cool. Side note, that is a tiny copy of a 7820.
This mini arcade machine is a precious muffin and I would protect it with my life!
are muffins really precious? Aren't muffins for eating? Delicious, hot buttered... damn! I'm so hungry now!
I hated this game, but so want this machine.
Yeah. It's Just Sooooo Cyute!
battery yes included oh yes!
They're called tabletop arcade games. You can buy them online for all kinds of different games.
Excellent stuff as always, Clint - well done!
Man. I loved this game in it's day. I was the first in my town to slay the dragon and rescue the princess! That was an accolade I proudly wore at a time and in a small town where video game prowess held real stature amongst peers. I remember 20+ year olds envious of me many years younger. Of course, it didn't do much for me with the girls now I look back! Fortunately nerdiness also came into style many years later 😁
I had this in my 1997 built mame machine also (sadly stolen by burgalars). Great to see it recreated in this fashion.
Thanks for the video!
Even after reading the "warning" on the disc, you put it in wrong side up ;)
Heh, yeeeeaah I was kicking myself while editing. Whoops 😄
I commented on that myself earlier.
And right after he praised them for "Attention to detail".
@@LGRBlerbs But you were the first reviewer I saw who managed to get the disc out without destroying the sleeve in the process 🙂
Hahaha my OCD was kicking the inside of my head.
Now the game wont work
I remember dragons lair on the Sega CD and how bulky everything was. At the time, I thought it was futuristic even though the video was grainy. Now we have an arcade perfect game literally on a chip.
I really loved the PC CD-ROM from the early '90's. Used to play that a lot in college. =)
The details on this is awesome! Cheers!
This was one of my favorite arcade games in the 80s. Fantastic replica.
I love Dragon Lair!
I wish there was a Cliffhanger cabinet.
Cliffhanger was cool, I did complete it once. Only ever saw two of the machines.
@@richardadams4928 I didn't learn about cliffhanger until after watching castle of cagliostro and I fell in love with the terrible voice acting
@@ITweeaboo Definitely deserved more attention, I really enjoyed it.
Raises hand. " Uhh, ME. I'm good at the game." Back in the day, I could complete the game on 1 quarter.
That's badass! This game looks absurdly hard. When every wrong move spells death, it probably took a ton of quarters to master it.
@@caramel7149 Once you knew the sequence, it wasn't hard. Took a LOT of quarters for me to get there tho. Haha. Was thankful for the later home ports.
Lies. No one has ever beaten this game. lol
Dragon's Lair cost 50 cents so that's impossible.
Me, too. Took out Singe on the first try, with no lives in reserve and having never seen the sequence.
PURE HEAVEN! I am jealous of your wonderful purchase!!!
Man I remember playing this 35+ years ago. That looks awesome
7:55 was the moment this broke me.
Paper sleeve on the "laserdisc"
The second box is a replica of the shipping container the arcade games shipped in. Hope you didn't throw it out.
I throw *nothing* out when it comes to boxes. 👍
@@LGRBlerbs Hence your love of packing peanuts.
@@zembryoz haha he's probably got a in home ball pit filled with packing peanuts
@@cam182 it's more of an ironic death pit where he throws the bodies of people who send him packing peanuts
@@LGRBlerbs shut up you fools your making him angry.
Oh, do I remember playing this game in the arcade. We used to sneak into Chuck-E-Cheese to play it. Only to be chased off by the staff because we weren't with our parents. I spent my paper-route money playing this game and the crowds would gather around while I played. Little do they know how many real hours I spent studying the game play. I even wrote a paper about the game (I'll have to find and post it one day). There were several releases of this game on different platforms over the years, but, nothing beats the real stand up arcades of the 80's. Thanks for posting this video, I may pick up one of these mini versions.
Wow!!!! I remember when it first came out back in the 80s. I was the very first to play it at the arcade at the time. Lol. Man this brought back memories. Thanks...
Kinda curious about how this little machine works hooked up to a TV with full-size controllers
Like it isnt there.
I actually have played it that way quite a bit. I plugged in a spare PS4 controller into USB 1 or USB 2 (I believe that determines which player you are), and all the functions were mapped to buttons fairly logical. The video output from this was detected as 720P on my capture device so I would suspect it will look fuzzier on newer 4K displays. I still use a 1080P display in my game room currently. The opening graphics of the NWT logo etc look very pixelated and rough but the actual game play I thought looked really good! I can tell they used an original LD master to rip this from instead of the newer remaster video as some of the original noise etc. common from a LD can be seen and I prefer it that way as it is more accurate overall.
@@IvoryTowerCollections FMV resolution is still much lower anyway, so if there's no any fuck-ups with upscaling, aspect ratio etc. it still should look fine, without any real difference okaying on 720p or 4K screen.
I haven't tried external controllers on mine, but I did hook it up to an external monitor over HDMI and it retains the 4:3 aspect ratio. Got a video if you want to see it as well.
Who made that 1:1 Coffee Cup replica in the background, It looks really cool!
Thinkgeek used to sell a ceramic cup with silicone lid that looked like that.
This arcade set is CRAZY awesome!! 🤩👍✨
I know it's objectively a lot of money but I'm amazed and impressed that they can make something with this level of attention to detail for that price and still turn a profit.
"A big fan, of small things". Hey so is my wife...
I’d just line those little replica coins up on the lip of the machine top. How did we hold a place in line with a random quarter?
Dragon's Lair was a game that always fascinated me, and little replicas of things really catch my fancy. When I was a little kid, I would get so obsessed with such tiny replicas, and if I saw something like that, I would go around saying something like "Cute little itty bitty Dragon's Lair machine."
Ive had dreams about being able to play like this for years! Incredible details
I actually * do * like playing the game. 😊
it's a bad ass game, one of the best from the golden age
I'm hoping they'll do one of these for Space Ace...
Wellll.... Check the site now.
I wish anything made as happy as seeing that mini-laser disc player made Clint.
OMG! That is awesome!!! Brings back so many memories of the days when I use to hangout at Arcades when I was a teen, spending mad quarters on games like these. I wasn't good with Dragon Lair either, but had friends that did completed the game and beat the dragon at the end. It was such fun times back then. My mom would get upset at times because I would spend my lunch money on arcades. LOL. Also ummm skip classes XD. This was back in Puerto Rico by the way. Since schools in the USA were closed buildings. In Puerto Rico the schools at the time where like clusters of bunkers/classrooms. You had the options to go out of the facilities at recess and lunch. Thanks for sharing this! God Bless and stay safe!
Dragon's Lair on "Easy":
Dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
Dead
...all the deads on higher settings. ;-)
Sweet arcade box LGR! :-)
Ya out the quaters on bottom of screen so you know whose playing next! Thatswaht we used to do in Australia anyways.....and it was 20 C pieces /dollar coins
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
I find this replica fascinating. In this day and age, you can do full-motion video with computer memory and a tiny LCD screen, so the electronics no longer have to be in a big arcade cabinet. When I was a kid, I had a dream that I had a small-scale replica of a TRS-80 Model II computer, but back then such a computer replica couldn't be made because the electronics had to be as big as they were.
Man, when LGR backs your project.... you better make it and make it good.
I’m not into arcade machines in the slightest but damn am I impressed at the quality of this thing, and that key chain?! Mate I want this because of the quality and detail alone. Imagine if this was the norm and not a rare example of what’s possible with a bit of passion? Materialism has kill so much :-/.
Just got mine recently - fantastic quality & totally playable. Love it
That's a beautiful little cabinet and the laser disc is exquisite :)
"Rpg manual" paper. He's right!!
Did you try playing on your television with a real controller?
This is too cool. The scoreboard really brings it together.
that laserdisc player will fit perfectly in your barbie dreamhouse!
Blerbs time!
If I remember correctly that Princess Daphne sticker is the same one that was on the kick plate of the original machine.
This is correct. While I don't remember seeing them on actual cabs when I was younger, that sticker is for those that wish to add it. I left mine off but yes, it is optional.
LOL!! Funny at the end where you are playing it.
Awesome piece and good review!
I'm really impressed by that screen actually. Really good detail, colour and brightness for its size.
RPG manual paper :D
I have a mini Laser Disc player too but I call it a DVD player
I owned this game with the Space Ace conversion - I can’t believe the detail wow
Tanks for the video! This is awesome! One of my fav's too. Just need a replica of the Firefox stand up arcade too! These and the Spy Hunter arcade sounds would dominate the Black Cat Arcade I used to go to all the time as a kid. Thanks for the memories LGR! All the best to you! :D
Always absolutely HATED Dragon's Lair. A memorization test disguised as a game. But that keychain - add to cart!
It's about the animation. Getting to see the full film. That's the attraction.
We eventually figured that out, but not until we spent $20 in quarters trying to beat it. That attract mode was an irresistible siren song for 10 year olds.
@lass kinn it's exactly what it was. QTE the game, hard mode.
Looks so good but plays soooo bad.
@Jack _ Keychain is $15
There's an error on the laserdisc. The "Program Material Is Recorded On the Other Side" label should be on the SHINY side, because the LD is read from the bottom. Thus the label showing Side A (i.e. the only side with video on this one-sided disc) should be on the dull side that doesn't have any data, so that the Side A label faces up, while the REAL Side A shiny side with video faces down so the laser can read it.
Immersion ruined!!
Apparently, this was one of the few LaserDisc players that reads from the _top_ of the disc. The laser assembly floats overhead, kinda like a record player.
@@LGRBlerbs Good god you're right. I stand corrected. Googled actual game LD and it has the label on shiny side after all. o.o; (though the one I found didn't have ANY label on the dull side)
All autoflip players can actually read from the top since they move the head to above the disc, but they still obey the standard that labels go on opposite sides from data (side B is top in an autoflip player).
This is a real oddity for a single-sided player!
I love that it came with a mini laser disc and the mini disc player ahhhhhh! It's the little attention to details that impress me!
My sticker collection is on my IKEA bookshelf also!
So sick. Loved Dragons Lair arcade even though I only played it a couple times.
a blerb edited? :(
Dragon's Lair - Expensive to play in the arcade, hard to figure out how and when to move or use your sword. Gameplay is and always was absolute crap.
This is the first of these that I've really desperately wanted to get my hands on.
I love this,
I heard about it when it was first announced and it's freaking cool!
thanks for the review LGR! :D
wow.... the whole thing is awesome I wish every collectors edition had this much character.