John's Arcade Forum - Classic Arcade and Pinball Collecting and Restoring Discussion Forum - RETRO MAME - Nintendo Vs Forum

John dragons lair games have an air inlet filter to keep out dust! We add filters to a lot of our games it totally keeps monitors and computers really clean! Just as long as you remember to clean them! Also the dummy power switch on the back is to keep people from pushing the game to close to the wall and blocking ventilation!
Once again another great vid dude!!!

Nice! That airfilter did the trick, the game is clean as heck inside! Interesting about the dummy switch!

fuu my PC needs one of those airfilters

John, you mentioned in your video replacing the laserdisc player and the pcb that lets you add different types of players.  That sounds awfully expensive considering it seems to work perfectly and is all original.  Would you really do that?

He actually never said something about replacing the player he currently has. He said there is a board that would allow him to use a more modern, more reliable laser disk player (if this one breaks) and that this board also contains the ROM data for Space Ace. With that board he could get the Space Ace laser disk and play that game as well by just swapping the disc.

I just want to say that the fact that laser disk is even still functioning is nothing less than divine intervention.

I do think I'll be upgrading the player to the LV-8000. That way I can tuck the original away and then I can get a Space Ace disc later too.

Gratz on getting your Dragon's Lair, John!   ;D

I used to beat this game on a regular basis back in the day.  Back then (loooooong before the Internet became what it is today), there used to be dozens of monthly magazines devoted solely to beating Arcade games.  One month, one mag did an entire issue of 'How to Beat Dragon's Lair'.  They gave out all of the patterns needed to beat the game.  It is totally sweet when you kill the Dragon for the first time.

Happy Dragon Hunting, John!   ;D

I'm so jealous.  I'd love to have a dragons lair

you deserve this game, cherish it and don't get rid of it no matter what!

wish i could just sit there and play your dragon's lair while chatting with ya.

it was awesome experiencing this video with you.

John just watched the dragons Lair side art and cpo video man the side art is sick!!!!!! very cool
just I was going to rebuild my joystick I notice you said to get the brown stuff off the shaft and not to scratch the ball very good advice


sorry just had to put that in thought it was funny.

I just looked this game up on Twin Galaxies, and they have two categories for high scores. One is for the three lives setting, while the other is for the five lives option.

well that's a laser disk based game.
we had a MACH 3 in the arcade I worked in , had a setup kinda like johns .

Dusty laser lenses = bad
but that's not what really fucked them up.. it was the people who sucked at it that kicked the machine after they died quick.

John i was curious cuz i would like to get a Dragon's Lair, but are they more pricey than most other arcades since its prob more rare?

I'm not sure it's more rare. Maybe it's more pricey because there are less of them working?