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Dragon's Lair (Game Boy Color) Playthrough

A playthrough of Capcom's 2001 interactive movie for the Nintendo Game Boy Color, Dragon's Lair. Yeah, I know. That sentence is patently absurd. Almost as absurd as it is that such a thing - an FMV game for the Game Boy Color - actually exists. Dragon's Lair for the Game Boy Color would've been easy to overlook on a store shelf in 2001. The box does nothing to draw your attention to the fact that the game isn't just another Dragon's Lair-themed platformer like we saw on the NES and SNES. It really should have, because what we have here is a marvel: an impossibly faithful recreation of the 1982 LaserDisc-based arcade classic, smashed into a 32 megabit cartridge and running on a creaky 8-bit handheld with a 2.5" LCD screen. I don't know if it has every scene from the arcade game - I'm not a Dragon's Lair expert - but the rooms all play out the way I remember from the Sega CD and 3DO versions. Beyond the sometimes abrupt transitions that seem to stem from loading between camera cuts, nothing stuck out to me as missing or wrong. It plays like the arcade game, and on the GBC's non-backlit postage stamp of a screen, the heavily letterboxed image bears an uncanny resemblance to the original. The reason for that? It's all FMV. To get it looking so clean, every frame was redone by hand and carefully optimized around the limited number of color palettes and unique tiles the GBC could juggle in memory. Painstaking work, I'm sure, but the results speak for themselves. It's incredible to see such clean footage moving at a reasonable framerate without any obvious compression artifacts on a Game Boy. I prefer the sharp line art of the GBC game over the muddy, washed-out look of the Sega CD version. The sound is pretty barebones, but it does everything it needs to. The gameplay-related audio cues are clear, and the digitized speech clips haven't been bitcrushed to oblivion. Dragon's Lair is such a weird choice for the GBC, but the folks at Digital Eclipse clearly believed in it, as must've Capcom to shoulder the manufacturing costs for such a large cartridge. This is the sort of quality you get when people pour themselves into something they care about. *Recorded with a Retroarch shader to mimic the look of the original hardware. _____________ No cheats were used during the recording of this video. NintendoComplete (http://www.nintendocomplete.com/) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!