Everyone seems to remember Dragon's Lair. It's the game that put Laserdisc gaming on the map. A new generation has been introduced to the great animation of Laserdisc games through rerelease on PC and DVD of Dragon's Lair and it's less successful follow-up Space Ace. But I wonder how many remember probably one the best, though not as successful as Lair, Laserdisc game Cliffhanger.
Cliffhanger was quite bold for it's day with it's more modern theme and before its time Japanimation. This was a fantastic game that I never had enough quarters to actually finish. While Dragon's Lair was short and pretty much standard hero save girl from Dragon-fare Cliffhanger was much more daring and risky with more, character(s).
Of course, Like Dragon's Lair the ultimate goal was to save the girl. But like a good anime, Cliffhanger was fast paced with a broad range of villians and locales. There were car and helicopter chases, ninjas, scuba diving and of course Clarissa. Given that Japanimation is like, 100 times more popular than it was when this game was released in the 80s, it would surely be well received on XBLA or PSN.
With just about every major new game being some derivative of an FPS, same ol' same ol', I could go for a good old remake of one of the most fun, refreshing, and for its time, creative games made. Sure, it wouldn't last today's hardcore gamer more than about 4 hours. But the casual gamer, that maybe has a few hours every weekend to play a game through, it would be well worth whatever the XBLA or PSN cost might be.
They just don't make games or the characters in them the way they used to.
UPDATE: While I was able to resist Dragon's Lair on DVD, I was not able to resist Dragon's Lair AND Space Ace on Bluray. Ordered them both today on Amazon. Can't wait to get these in HD on BD. Maybe, just maybe ... nah..
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
LUPIN THE THIRD.
if you liked the anime,there were other games made based on it.