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From: smith@nrl-aic@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: [Glasser Alan:  hardware for "Dragon's Lair"]
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Date: Fri, 5-Aug-83 06:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  5 06:39:00 1983
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From:  Russ Smith <smith@nrl-aic>

With respect to "Dragon's Lair"...If this is the game I think it is,
it's done using a video disk. It looks as good as the best animation
you've seen because that's what it is. Each possible change in scene (i.e.,
fight-no fight, live-get killed, go through the left door-go through the
right door, etc.) has been actually created and stored at a quickly
addressable location on a computer-controlled video disk. As the player
makes a selection (there really aren't that many to choose from) the
computer accesses and displays the appropriate images (and sound). This
quite probably is the way future games will go (animators LOVE it!). I
believe someone once did something similar with a complete traversal of
Aspen, Colorado. You could sit in a car simulator and drive around the
streets of Aspen. No matter which street you turned down, the correct
scene would be shown. I'm not sure what happened if you tried to drive on
the sidewalk...

Russ <Smith@nrl-aic>