Dragon's Lair - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Dragon's Lair is featured in the Video Games Live tour.
  • A Robot Chicken episode, "Celebrity Rocket", shows Dirk battling a midlife crisis in the segment Dragon's Lair: The Middle Ages.
  • Dragon's Lair was once a featured game on the 1980s video game based game show, Starcade. The entire episode can be seen in Digital Leisure's 20th Anniversary DVD and PC CD ROM editions.
  • The Italo dance group Koto used extensive samples from the game in its song "Dragon's Legend".
  • A portion of the game was parodied in the TV show Family Guy. In Season 7, episode 8, titled "Family Gay", Peter portrayed Dirk the Daring. After bragging to Lois about almost beating "the Dragon's Lair", a flashback is shown which re-creates the flying horse scene, where Peter manages to dodge some of flames but smacks into the wall, bringing up the dreaded death scene.
  • Dragon's Lair 3D was featured in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The character Tibby interviews Brian McBrian, who has supposedly broken every record there is for Dragon's Lair 3D.
  • The collectibles company Electric Tiki Design released a limited edition statue of Princess Daphne as part of their "Animated Ladies" line in 2011.
  • Inside the Dragon's Lair is a feature documentary film about the game which is currently in production and is slated for release at the end of 2013 to commemorate the game's 30 year anniversary

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