30 years ago, Dragon's Lair and the lesser known "Space Ace" entered the arcade scene with a unique concept that would later characterize - rather infest - the plethora of early CD games to come, coupling the masterful art of Don Bluth and the avant-garde Laserdisc technology. By far Cinematronics and Don Bluth's greatest shame, being equally responsible for minting the very same grotesquely skewed vision that still persists to this day: "Video games are the interactive movies of the future." Not even Don Bluth's very own scribbles can save this arcade "classic" from the shipwrecks and the calamity that resulted of its legacy.

Reviewed on Mar 16, 2022


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