Dragons Lair comes to PSN

Dragon's Lair was simultaneously one of the most revolutionary, shallow and infuriating arcade experiences of all time. I remember being wowed by it's cartoon visuals back in the early 80s, but a few plays revealed that there was not much of a game underneath. Despite this fact, Dragon's Lair has been ported to pretty much every platform you can imagine, to 8-bit computers of the time, such as the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 to modern handhelds including Nintendo DSi, Android smartphones and iOS platforms. It has now been ported to the PlayStation 3 via Sony's PSN downloadable service in the US. Judging by the screenshots and videos it looks like the closest the game has ever come to matching the visual quality of the original LaserDisc arcade game and it's just as impressive to look at today as it was 27 years ago -- it's also just as repetitive and annoying. Nonetheless, this is an important piece of arcade history and if you don't mine forking over $10.

Here's the trailer:

MTW