News Bye! December 15th - Dragon of Legends, Dragon's Lair, Bleed
/ Stephen Crane
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Want to relive 1980's arcade magic? Thanks to developer Digital Leisure you can now play the Dragon's Lair trilogy on PlayStation 4.
Now's your chance to own the definitive edition of the games that revolutionized the 1980s arcade. Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp and Space Ace are now available together in the Dragon's Lair Trilogy - available today on PlayStation 4! pic.twitter.com/LP9mOR0JyX
— Digital Leisure (@digitalleisure) December 12, 2017
In Dragon's Lair, you play the heroic Dirk the Daring, a valiant knight on a quest to rescue the fair princess from the clutches of an evil dragon!
Space Ace will have you take control of Ace - Defender of justice, truth, and the planet Earth! Ace is being attacked by the evil Commander Borf. Struggle with Dexter to regain his manhood. Destroy the Infanto-Ray. Defeat the evil Borf! Be valiant space warrior, the fate of Earth is in your hands!
Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp once again has you leading Dirk on a perilous quest! Spirited away to a wrinkle in time by the evil wizard Mordroc, Princess Daphne will be forced to marry the wicked Mordroc unless Dirk can save her. Once the casket of doom has opened, Mordroc will place the death ring upon Daphne’s finger in marriage, and she will be lost forever in the Time Warp.
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