Dragon's Lair ships for iPhone and iPod touch

It's a shame the technology didn't progress visually along these lines. Instead of animated videogames, we fell into the uncanny valley as everyone became obsessed with the possibilities of 3D. Even the best of today's games still feature characters whose faces seem to have been carved from lunchmeat.

Dragon's Lair II: Escape from Singe's Castle - is noteable on the c64 - in its cassette tape form (yes, games came out on cassette) because it loaded in the next level as you played the current one - ingenious for the time.

Do they have the option like the DVDs to watch the video straight through without the "game"?

this has been out for awhile i thought.
a friend showed me this on his iphone like 6-9 months ago bc i said i hate paying more than 99c for an app.

I played this game all the time when it came out in '83 in the arcade at the mall.

It sure was ahead of its time using laserdisc technology. The only downside was every time your made an action there was a pause while the next scene was physically located by the laser, but it wasn't too bad. This game sure ate up a lot of quarters as timing was everything, as was memorization of the patterns of movement.

Like Granger, I also have purchased every known version of Dragon's Lair since the original laserdisc game. And there have been some very "underwhelming" ones. Still, I loved the game and was a huge fan of Don Bluth's animation style.

Space Ace, which was the followup laserdisc game by Bluth, has been in the iTunes App store for a while now... and it's not bad at all. Fun to see the story/animation in one of the better ports I've seen in a long time.

There is another Bluth animation app that is out -- Banjo the Woodpile Cat. I think they just took a Bluth cartoon and tried to turn it into a 'game'. It's pretty bad -- a real stinker. Since it wasn't designed to be a game (at least, not to my knowledge) they've essentially just added highlighted/flash spots to the animation. When you see something 'flash' you press on it -- simulating a joystick movement in that direction. But since it was never intended to be a game in the first place, it's very lame. Many of the "click here" actions make little sense and really distract from the animation. And speaking of the animation... whatever movie they pulled the footage from is broken up into so many different segments that it's hard to pull a story line from it.

So:

Dragon's Lair -- worth the purchase
Space Ace -- worth the purchase
Banjo The Woodpile Cat -- not worth the purchase; confusing at times

I never knew there were games for laserdisc and as i didn't have a computer in '83 it means nothing to me. as for arcades galaxian was the one for me. It looks good fun tho love the cartoon type play. I wonder if they'll ever port the following onto the iPhone 1. Tombraider, 2. Screamer ( race car game) 3. RAC International Rally.

Dragon's Lair may be clunky and unforgiving, but it's one of the few games I don't mind playing with rose tinted glasses firmly perched upon my brow. I've probably purchased every underwhelming version of this game in the last ten years, I'll probably give this one a go later this evening. Seems to be pretty warmly received thus far too.

Also, I've always wondered this... Can you ship digital content? All those trucks traveling through the intertubes are bound to cause congestion.