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In 2002, the 3D action game Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair — based on the world of the laserdisc game Dragon's Lair — was released for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox (not released in Japan).
It was never officially released in Japan and is only carried by some import game shops, but it has a Japanese-text mode and an option to switch fonts for several countries.
It was never officially released in Japan and is only carried by some import game shops.
As a masterpiece of early video games it is held by the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., alongside Pong (1972) and Pac-Man (1980).
Released in 1990 (in Japan on 1991-9-20) as a side-view action game, its controls are extremely heavy; compared with the hugely popular Mario it allows no nimble turning or satisfying jumping action at all, making the difficulty unusually high.
The first laserdisc game in history was Sega's Astron Belt, shipped in Japan in 1983/4, but Dragon's Lair was released earlier in North America in 1983/7, making this the first laserdisc game in North America.
The NES version, reworked into an action game for North America, is extremely difficult: on top of the original game's difficulty, slow movement and poor controls add to it.
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the four reviewers gave 6, 5, 6, and 4, for a total of 21 out of 40.
Dragon's Magic (publisher: Konami; Data East outside Japan)
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