At the start of the year, a Switch box art for Dragon's Lair Trilogy was spotted on Nintendo's official website. At the time, it was enough to convince fans a physical release on the way. It even revealed Limited Run Games would be handling the hard copy publishing rights.
Fast forward to the month of May and LRG is now offering a limited collector's edition for hardcore Dragon's Lair fan. This $79.99 version includes a poster, enamel pin and themed papercraft, with pre-orders opening this Friday. Below is a look at what you'll get, along with the official announcement:
For the die-hard Dragon's Lair fan, there will be a Collector's Edition available in limited quantity this Friday, 5/24 at 10am & 6pm EDT. This CE includes a poster, enamel pin, and arcade cabinet papercraft... perfect for recreating @Stranger_Things
The owner of Limited Run Games, Josh Fairhurst, even chimed in to reveal some more information about what to expect:
"This is a premium box that has light-activated sound which plays when the drawer is pulled out (it plays the "Lead on adventurer - your quest awaits!" line from the game's attract mode)."
Of course, there'll also be a standard edition made available on the same day (24th May), if you would prefer this.
As we've previously noted, the trilogy contains Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp and Space Ace - where you take control of Ace instead of Dirk. These games are comprised of cinematic quick-time events with animation from Don Bluth. The first game was released in arcades in 1983, Space Ace came out in 1984 and Dragon's Lair II arrived in 1991.
Do you have room in your physical Switch collection for this trilogy? Tell us down in the comments.
[source twitter.com]
Comments 23
That takes me back!
Couldn't even beat the first game, had no idea what I was doing, haha.
MUST...BUY...SWITCH
Don Bluth is almost as bad as George Lucas when it comes to repackaging the same content.
Lost a handful of quarters to Dragon's Lair 2 at the mall back in the day. The animation is beautiful (full respect to Bluth in that regard) but the twitch-based quarter-eating memorization required to play this was infuriating.
I'm down for a standard edition
I remember when I saw a Dragons Dungeon arcade at a convention. I hears that they are rare, so I went up only to find out that a guy had frozen the screen at some lingere lady and found a way to freeze it at the right moment. He stared in that spot for an actual 3 hours
Might have to buy this.
What, no NES game? That’s a shame, I enjoy dying on the first screen of games
@Rypopo The art style and ambition was admirable... but as a game, it's nothing more than a badly implemented (by modern standards) series of QTE's. Dirk the Daring is cool and so is the game world. If there was some enterprising company that could take the original animation and do a Cuphead style game, I'd be all for it.
Until then, Dragon's Lair is a museum piece, at best.
Getting the physical of this on the go would be awesome, I still got my Wii copy but will get rid of that once I got this one.
The N64 could have handled Dragon's Lair, if you had bought the 64DD.
Why can't we get the PS2 DragonsLair game? Which was a 3D play former that also implemented the classic gameplay of the first ga.e.
Amazing news Love Dragons Lair.
Definitely be on my watchlist. I always wanted to play it but never got around to it (saw it a few times in the nickle arcade).
Love how it's "animated" but still.... Anastasia is one of my favorite movie, so yea this style is really awesome to me
Well... IMO, these were all "graphics over gameplay" games that were never fun in the first place. But great for those who want them.
There was a time when I read this kind of news and thought "I'm gonna buy this beautiful edition!" regardless of game quality. Now I pass because I'd never play those games
@Muddy_4_Ever
As you say, it's a museum piece, I guess that is where the collector's appeal lies.
It's something I've never actually played, and I've been eagerly collecting physical releases for the Switch lately, so this is something I will likely pick up myself and enjoy for the first time.
damn i did not hold off on the digital purchase either! But being this is Switch I’m gonna have to double dip!
"Belongs in a museum?" lol
You kids and your "QTE" fetish. Dragon's Lair (and its cousin games like Space Ace) were no different than, say, Pac-Man: Memorize the patterns and you win. It's just a fancier way of packaging it.
Hell, Cuphead is this way.
I would buy it if it was available at Best Buy so I could use my GCU discount, I'm getting tired of these exclusive retailers
Dragon's Lair has had more ports/remasters than I've had hot dinners
Eww god. Was this even a game?
this actully looks like a great box set, not usually my thing but I maybe tempted. how feasible is it to get one, do these sell out instantly?
managed to secure one, it just looks too cool to pass up!
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