![]() Excerpt from Rob's original review at CW#3: " Dragon's Lair III: The Curse of Mordread, the last and probably also best of the floppy-based Dragon's Lair games by ReadySoft. If you like any of these disk-based versions, check out the deluxe DVD/CD-ROM versions at Digital Leisure's products page. Since those places are mainly Dragon respawns, players started referring to all of those places as Dragon Lairs. Treat the games as fun and humorous computer cartoons, but don't expect them to be involving games. Dragon Lairs (also called D-Lairs) are places with a large respawn of Dragons, Dragon Lords, Frost Dragons, Ghastly Dragons or Undead Dragons. It wasn't until the advent of CD-ROM that Readysoft (now sold to Digital Leisure) started making "deluxe" version of these games and put them on CD-ROM and later DVD. Dragons Lair burst into the arcade scene back in 1983 and has since spawned over two decades of laserdisc games, CD-ROMS, and DVD adaptations. PC versions are, naturally, cut-down versions from Laserdisc originals, with many sequences missing altogether. These game are little more than PC version of "choose-your-own-adventure" books, in which gameplay is boiled down to choosing an action from multiple choices. This is by no means surprising: although these games boast very high production values and excellent animations which are created by Don Bluth Studios, their value as a game is sorely lacking. ![]() In early 1990s, Readysoft released a number of animated action games that became instant hits on the Laserdisc platform, although their PC counterparts suffered poor sales in comparison.
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