Well, this screws up my head. When I was young and used to sneak off to the arcade to look at games and bum quarters, I remember staring in awe at Dragon's Lair cabinets, and I remember reading that state-of-the-art Laserdisc technology is what made this game possible. It was light years ahead of anything we'd ever have at home.
And now it's running on a phone.
Don Bluth's classic game is up on the iTunes App Store for only $4.99. And again, that just blows my mind. I wanted to be that radical douchebag with the spiky hair and the tight-rolled jeans and a Dragon's Lair arcade cabinet in my house. Now the game is on my phone. It costs less than a few plays of the arcade cabinet.
This iPhone version is maybe even more intuitive. You just tap the screen. That's it.
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3:20 PM on 12.08.2009 | 
It is truly a great age to be alive. (If you have an iPhone, otherwise your life is still garbage.)
I had, pretty much, the same experience with this game that you spoke of in your article.
Back in the 80's I had a paper route and would end my deliveries by going to a place called Paul's Pizza. This store had several arcade machines (including CliffHanger, zdoggy00). I wound up spending so much of my newspaper collecting money at the arcade that I was forbidden to go there. Since my parents weren't the boss of me I kept sneaking down to the arcade to play these games.
One afternoon as I was going into Paul's Pizza an elderly woman in the parking lot put her car into "D" instead of "R" and shot through the front of the store as I was going in. The door came back and hit me so hard that I was thrown into Bump-N-Jump almost 20 feet away. Scared that my transgressions to the arcade would be found out, I took off. Running home as fast I as I could.
When I got home my mom was on the phone with the police who wondered why I left the scene. I had become such a regular at the place that everyone had known who I was. On top of that, when I left the place I was a bit in shock and had left my newspaper bag with my name and phone number on it.
Every time I see a Dragon's Lair story, I think of that. Thanks for covering this title's release for the iPhone.
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