Dragon's Lair comes to Xbox Kinect Arcade

Digital Leisure seem intent on squeezing every last drop out of Don Bluth's legendary LaserDisc arcade game, Dragon's Lair. According to the game's Wikipedia page, it has been released on 65 different home platforms since 1984 and now you can add a 66th with the Xbox Live Arcade version released today. Unlike the PS3 version released in 2010, this version is also available in Europe for the modest sum of 800 Microsoft Points, which works out at around £6.50.

Like this PS3 version, this is in 16:9 widescreen and looks better than ever before. As well as being able to play it with a traditional controller you can also play it "controller-free" using an Xbox Kinect. I don't have a Kinect, so I can't tell you what that's like. Instead here's a trailer:

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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:

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