Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair

hbomberguy
5 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2017–2019
YouTube
1.3M views · 8 years ago · essay · evergreen

hbomberguy's 43-minute video essay on Dragon's Lair, the 1983 laserdisc arcade game animated by Don Bluth's studio, and its legacy for games and animation. It covers how the game was made and the genre it spawned.

HN people recommend it as a deep dive that gives more on Dragon's Lair and Space Ace than you knew you wanted, and as an example of thoughtful YouTube video essays.

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@pxc2019 · in “The golden age of YouTube is over”
My favorite corner of YouTube— lengthy, thoughtful, and often artistic video essays and skits addressing culture and politics— is flourishing right now. Some examples: Unfolding Ideas – link ContraPoints – link Philosophy Tube – link Lindsay Ellis – link Innuendo Studios – link HBomberguy – ▶ this video and so on. And it seems like it's only in the past couple of years that many of these channels have reached their current levels of artistry and production value. Most stuff on YouTube is trash, but there's plenty else to watch.
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@smacktoward2018 · in “The Melancholy of Don Bluth (2017)”
Here is more information on Dragon's Lair/Space Ace/etc. than you knew you wanted: ▶ this video
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@enkiv22017 · in “Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair”
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@anonymfus2017 · in “Halcyon Dreams: The Legacy of Dragon's Lair (43 min)”
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