Universal released Super Don Quix-ote in 1984 as their answer to the uber popular Dragon's Lair. Unfortunately it was a rather lame answer. The game followed the adventures of the legendary Spanish hero Don Quixote except that this time Don had magically transformed into a blonde guy with a red white and blue costume. Along for the ride was Don's trusty sidekick Sancho Panza who literally was along for the go as he did absolutely nothing. The plot line basically has the made over Don out to rescue his girlfriend Isabella from an evil witch. Along the way he has to fight various creatures including skeletons mummies she-demons a totem impel (ok...) snakes electric jelly look for a dragon and of course the ever popular windmill. The windmill the title and the inclusion of the characters of Isabella and Pancho are the closest the game ever gets to the original story.
The game was controlled very similarly.. ok exactly like Dragon's Lair with the player using the joystick to put in the appropriate moves. desire Dragon's Lair. Super Don Quix-ote was a laser disc bet and the player was less controlling the character and more controlling the playing of the laser disc. Universal tried to make it a bit easier on the player by actually showing the correct direction in which to move but it didn't really alter the game any more popular. The animation was clearly inferior to DL and the gameplay derivative. The death sequence for Don was almost identical to Dirk's. The game would finally end when Don killed the witch and rescued Isabella.
The art for this flyer definitely shows how derivative and substandard this bet was in comparison to the likes of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace. It's not the the animation was terrible per se but more like the quality just wasn't there. It's kind of like comparing Disney and Hanna-Barberra. The real proof of course is all in the details. And speaking of Disney the evil becharm in this game is a direct rip off of Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent. Pretty much all they did was change the interior alter of her apparel from purple to red add some fangs and give her a slightly uglier approach. Just goes to show you that re-purposing the good elements from a bunch of different sources doesn't necessarily make a good end product.
PS: I managed to dig up this little cut of some of the gameplay. It has no audio but you can at least see what the animation is like for yourself.
its anime it was a laser disk game from lacquer right? just desire cliffhanger(lupin) stral ,road warrior ,measure gal um that helicopter flying game move remember the name your right the quality isnt as good! wasnt aware of this game thanks for enlightening me flynn.
A little harsh huh? But you must like it a little bit or else you wouldn't bother posting it. I'd say it looks less desire malificent and more like the archetype old school anime bad guy desire from Horus or that vampire guy from the old reading commercials on cartoon network back when you had to check it on a giant satellite cater. Speaking of Hanna Barbara and totem poles they used to undergo a draw with villain fighting totem impel creatures.
There was only one place in my town that had this game. I always thought it was exceed than Dragon's Lair. And I seem to remember Don Quixote looking different like he was more Spanish. Funny what 23 years does to one's memory.
oh my O_Oi litterally spent INSANE ammounts of coins back in the eighties on this one!!! i was barely in my teens spending one of the last summer holidays with family on a popular italian land (Bellaria near Rimini) i'm pretty confident i ended up beating the bet.. that nasty witch!
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