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Mario Tries Some New Ways of Dying

Boy I don't know about you, but when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I hope that I leap into the air waving my arms, and then plunge out of view as a merry oh-shit tune plays. With my loving family around my deathbed of course.

Mario's been dying that way for years, so, here's a video in which he tries on some new demises in search of a better good death. They missed Defender, where he explodes in a fireworks burst and burns white-hot thermite particles through anything on the screen. That would be funny. Certainly funnier than what happened between Luigi and the Koopas.

Deaths That Just Don't Work for Mario [YouTube]

12:00 PM on Sun May 18 2008
By Owen Good
4,717 views, 42 comments

Latest by n/a: they should have had bowser do a sub-zero like fatality where he ripped marios head off with his spine dangling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more »

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Dragon's Lair, On PSP This Time Around

United Coders, the development company working on Dragon's Lair DS at this very moment, is looking ahead. Their next plan? Dragon's Lair PSP. They just need a publisher (aka sugar daddy) to come around, bring some cash and distribute away when the project is done.

Some may see the development as just another version of the classic Dragon's Lair in your pocket. Others will realize that a PSP version is but one inevitable step in the game competing with Doom as the most ported title in the history of mankind.

DRAGON'S LAIR® UP FOR GRABS ON SONY PSP! [gamingnexus]

2:00 PM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Mark Wilson
1,305 views, 44 comments

Latest by Thrillhaus: Nuts to you guys, this is excellent news. Obviously it's not held up well gameplay-wise, but thats just how more »

borf

Space Ace In HD

Where Dragon's Lair walks, Space Ace is never far behind. The sci-fi follow-up to Don Bluth's classic animated dungeon romp is following in it's more popular older brother's footsteps, as Digital Leisure announces Space Ace PC HD, due out this fall. The game features an all-new 5.1 surround sound mix, making the beautiful Kimberly just that much more adorable.
"Don Bluth's animation just pops in Space Ace HD" says David Foster, President of Digital Leisure. "It's fantastic that today's computers allow gamers to enjoy full high definition products. There are details in the animation that I didn't know existed before seeing the game in such high definition. The colors are incredibly vivid and the surround sound mix will have you looking over your shoulder!"
As with their Dragon's Lair HD release, Blu-ray and HD DVD versions will be hitting stores sometime next year. More »

8:30 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,696 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: @ExistentialEgg: thank you! these young gamers have no perspective, none at all. given how jaded I've become, I more »

more heartbreak

Dragon's Lair Coming To HD DVD

Dragon's Lair was a classic of early laserdisc gaming, no doubt. But it was a horrid disappointment, more infamous than famous, really. It's been ported to multiple systems, Blu-ray and now HD DVD—and every time it breaks my heart to remember the childhood epiphany that you didn't really control the game at all, but "interact" with the movie instead. It was a greater disappointment in early life than my first kiss (sloppy, gross), learning I sucked at sports (awkward, humiliating) and that time the Tooth Fairy decided to leave me an extra $5 (bloody, infected).

So yes, Dragon's Lair is now on HD DVD. And somewhere, if you listen closely enough, a child is weeping...softly.

Product Page [digitalleisure]

1:40 PM on Thu Jul 19 2007
By Mark Wilson
1,491 views, 21 comments

Latest by BigPanda: Why? Why god why do they keep re-releasing this and Space Ace when I can't get a freakin' copy of more »

knob... heh.

Turn Knobs With The Act

Wow, an animated interactive game you can actually play! While 1980's saw a couple of interactive titles, namely Dragon's Lair and Space Age, the genre proved to be visually stunning but frustrating play-wise. More »

8:00 AM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
944 views, 19 comments

game cards

Donkey Kong and Dragon's Lair Rub-Off Game Cards

As I was making my weekly perusal of The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA) I ran across these amazing rub-off game cards posted on the front page. TAFA owner, Dan's new girlfriend apparently has quite the little retro game collection herself including these awesome cards. The games came in trading card packs with one of those horrible pieces of rock hard gum and worked along the same principle as rub-off lottery tickets. You would rub off the silver covering on the dots as you made your way across the playing field and hoped you would make it all the way through without "dying." Of course, if you were like me, you just ended up rubbing off all the circles anyway just so you could see what they all were. More »

1:00 PM on Sun Apr 29 2007
By fdemarco
876 views, 20 comments

Latest by mariospants: For those of you who find these things really, really desireable: there is a chain of candy stores here in more »

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Gallery: Dragon's Lair Blu-ray

Digital Leisure just sent me this swanky personalized postcard to remind me that Dragon's Lair has made its way to the Blu-ray, and yes the Playstation 3. More »

5:00 PM on Tue Mar 27 2007
By Brian Crecente
428 views, 25 comments

arcade

Ode To An Arcade

Dick McVengance over at Destructoid has written a great article lamenting the decline of the old school arcade. With the rise of home consoles, the existence of actual arcades have become fewer and fewer. More often than not, arcades are now relegated to Chuck E. Cheeses, Mini-Golf courses and the occasional movie theater lobby. I remember the arcade I used to frequent near my house and how much I used to love it. It was the place I first discovered my favorite guilty pleasure, Crystal Castles and where I dropped an endless amount of quarters playing Dragon's Lair, never quite being able to get past the first few screens. More »

4:00 PM on Sun Jan 7 2007
By fdemarco
773 views, 30 comments

Latest by atomdude: that arcades are dying is very sad, indeed. to some degree they are the ones to blame. when they started more »

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Dragon's Lair DS Port

It looks like someone is in the process of porting Dragon's Lair to the Nintendo DS. More »

6:00 PM on Tue Dec 12 2006
By Brian Crecente
844 views, 25 comments

retro

The 100-Inch Arcade Set Up

For the gamer on your holiday shopping list who has everything—excluding a healthy social life—the DreamArcades 100-inch video arcade center might be the final thing he or she needs. Okay, "he". No woman wants this garish monstrosity in their home. More »

5:00 PM on Mon Nov 27 2006
By Michael McWhertor
373 views, 14 comments

Latest by Jay: Does Peter Moore really have the world high score in Burger Time? more »

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Butternut Dumplings: Readers Tell Me Good Things About Sony

A few days ago I put out a call to arms: tell me good things about Sony, Playstation, and the PSP. More »

3:20 PM on Mon Sep 11 2006
By egauger
193 views, 67 comments

don bluth

Space Ace, Start to Finish

Ah, for the good old days, when games were cartoons that expected you to wiggle the joystick back and forth randomly until you satisfied whatever invisible gameplay mechanism that would allow you to continue to the next scene! More »

12:00 PM on Wed Apr 19 2006
By brownlee
305 views, 6 comments

dragon's lair

Dragon's Lair 360: Buyer Beware!

I was pretty psyched when I read that Dragon s Lair and Space Ace were coming to the Xbox 360. And then I read the fine print. It turns out the games aren t going to be showing up on Xbox Live Arcade or even as an Xbox 360 disc, no. Digital Leisure is just trying to convince 360 owners to buy their collection of DVD compatible games. Kinda crappy if you ask me. More »

6:00 AM on Wed Nov 23 2005
By Brian Crecente
572 views, 2 comments

Latest by Erzengel: So sad... how low do they have to go? dont they have any NEW product to offer? memories, thats all more »