

Most other games of the era represented the character as a sprite, which consisted of a series of pixels displayed in succession. It featured animation by ex- Disney animator Don Bluth. In the game, the protagonist Dirk the Daring is a knight attempting to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe who has locked the princess in the foul wizard Mordroc's castle.

The first true sequel, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp, had started development as early as 1984, but would only appear in arcades in 1991. The game was ported to several other platforms, but as no home system technology of that era could accommodate the graphical quality of LaserDisc, several abridged versions of the original game were released under different names. It uses laserdisc technology, offering greatly superior graphics compared to other video games at the time. The first game in the series is titled Dragon's Lair, originally released for arcades in 1983 by Cinematronics. The series is famous for its Western animation-style graphics and complex decades-long history of being ported to many platforms and being remade into television and comic book series. Dragon's Lair is a video game franchise created by Rick Dyer.
