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Lictalon
07-25-2013, 08:38 PM
There was an arcade game (and not a very good one) I recall playing several times, in the Midwest, when I was a kid, and this would have been around the mid-1980s.

This is what I remember about it:

1. It was medieval, and you played a guy dressed like a bard or something
2. The goal of the game was to cross several screens, each one was a castle wall
3. You got points for jumping over arrows, or swinging over a flaming pit, etc.
4. At the end was a princess you were supposed to reach
5. The character walked in this exagerrated, courtly-love stride (like always kneeling and scraping)
6. I would have played it around the mid 1980s, though no earlier than 1982, or later than 1986. It was at the front of a grocery store.

Can anyone remember an arcade game like this? I'm not saying it was good; I just can't remember it.

Rob2600
07-25-2013, 11:10 PM
Dragon's Lair?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair

http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/pages/images/dl/pic02.jpg

Collector_Gaming
07-26-2013, 03:53 AM
yeah that sounds alot like dragons lair. Creative idea for a game way ahead of its time make people believe in its "Mind bending graphics" when really it was a series of videos strung together in choose your own adventure kinda scenario

CRTGAMER
07-26-2013, 11:37 AM
If that is the game, the Wii has a very nice Arcade perfect compilation. For a more interactive gameplay, there is the 3D version on the Gamecube.

Lictalon
07-26-2013, 10:13 PM
No, absolutely not Dragon's Lair. I've played that in the arcade (late 1980s).

We're talking _really_ primitive graphics. It was like platformer, with only a handful of screens, each on a castle section.

Amos
08-01-2013, 09:02 PM
Zwackery?

Lictalon
08-05-2013, 08:32 PM
No, but it was in that vein.

Think Pitfall, only with a troubadour.

Sorry I can't remember more - it must have been early 80s, before my reading comprehension was that advanced.

retroman
08-09-2013, 11:38 PM
Dragonfire maybe?

Pete Rittwage
08-10-2013, 12:20 PM
Sounds like Hunchback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mshM2Ddx2Rs

Lictalon
08-20-2013, 08:08 PM
Sounds like Hunchback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mshM2Ddx2Rs

That was it!!!

Damn, it looks primitive today....I don't know why I remembered it so long.