Actually, there is a game boy color game just like the original arcade game. Look it up on Youtube, its amazing! I’m very certain the NES could have done the same thing with a cropped screen, so the image is smaller.
Why not do that then? Don’t know, you could say they never knew it could as of then, but then, why make a GBC title just like the original arcade machine. Actually, some home 8-bit computers featured something similar to the GBC game, so I guess they could have figured to do that.
Guess they wanted to make a side scroller out of it, but it should have been better.
You know, I used to see Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace in the arcade I went to as a kid all the time, and not once did I ever play it. It looked amazing, I mean its a Don Bluth animated feature, how could it not look amazing? I never knew how the game mechanics worked until I watched this video. I am so glad I never wasted any quarters on either of those games, and I am so glad I never wasted away one of my weekends renting this piece of NES garbage.
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It’s easy to believe that the Game Boy Color and the NES are similar platforms. However, the Game Boy uses a Zilog Z80 processor which is almost four times as fast and powerful as the NES’s Ricoh 2A03. The Game Boy Color also has much more memory to work with (32K on board whereas the NES had something like 2). Thus, they are not closely the same and the NES is (probably) not powerful enough to run full-motion video games.
However, the reason for the butchered, side-scrolling port is only partially a matter of the console. One of the major factors was the tools available at the time. This game was made in the early 1990s and the technology to port full-motion-video to consoles didn’t exist until a couple of years after this game was released. Even when it did exist, it was done on consoles like the Sega CD where videos didn’t have anywhere near the fidelity of the originals (I believe Dragon’s Lair was ported to the Sega CD at some point, actually). There were systems that could handle high-fidelity video at that time, but they were extraordinarily expensive. I could go on but the main point I wanted to touch on was that the tools didn’t exist for those consoles and the technology just wasn’t powerful enough.
I haven’t personally looked at the Dragon’s Lair games on the home computers, but if they’re anything like the Arcade game and the Game Boy Color is anything like the home computer games, one reason for that may be the GBC’s Zilog Z80 Processor. That processor was used commonly for home computers back in the 80s (Sinclair comes to mind). The old z80 machines weren’t as powerful as the game boy in speed terms, but they had more ram than the consoles of the time and even the GBC which came many years later, so maybe they were just -barely- powerful enough to handle a game like Dragon’s Lair.
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Actually, there is a game boy color game just like the original arcade game. Look it up on Youtube, its amazing! I’m very certain the NES could have done the same thing with a cropped screen, so the image is smaller.
Why not do that then? Don’t know, you could say they never knew it could as of then, but then, why make a GBC title just like the original arcade machine. Actually, some home 8-bit computers featured something similar to the GBC game, so I guess they could have figured to do that.
Guess they wanted to make a side scroller out of it, but it should have been better.
I will never try to endure this game
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Demons’ Souls. Same kind of principal.
The music is so repetative.
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You know, I used to see Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace in the arcade I went to as a kid all the time, and not once did I ever play it. It looked amazing, I mean its a Don Bluth animated feature, how could it not look amazing? I never knew how the game mechanics worked until I watched this video. I am so glad I never wasted any quarters on either of those games, and I am so glad I never wasted away one of my weekends renting this piece of NES garbage.
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It’s easy to believe that the Game Boy Color and the NES are similar platforms. However, the Game Boy uses a Zilog Z80 processor which is almost four times as fast and powerful as the NES’s Ricoh 2A03. The Game Boy Color also has much more memory to work with (32K on board whereas the NES had something like 2). Thus, they are not closely the same and the NES is (probably) not powerful enough to run full-motion video games.
However, the reason for the butchered, side-scrolling port is only partially a matter of the console. One of the major factors was the tools available at the time. This game was made in the early 1990s and the technology to port full-motion-video to consoles didn’t exist until a couple of years after this game was released. Even when it did exist, it was done on consoles like the Sega CD where videos didn’t have anywhere near the fidelity of the originals (I believe Dragon’s Lair was ported to the Sega CD at some point, actually). There were systems that could handle high-fidelity video at that time, but they were extraordinarily expensive. I could go on but the main point I wanted to touch on was that the tools didn’t exist for those consoles and the technology just wasn’t powerful enough.
I haven’t personally looked at the Dragon’s Lair games on the home computers, but if they’re anything like the Arcade game and the Game Boy Color is anything like the home computer games, one reason for that may be the GBC’s Zilog Z80 Processor. That processor was used commonly for home computers back in the 80s (Sinclair comes to mind). The old z80 machines weren’t as powerful as the game boy in speed terms, but they had more ram than the consoles of the time and even the GBC which came many years later, so maybe they were just -barely- powerful enough to handle a game like Dragon’s Lair.
That’s my best guess, honestly.
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