From: vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell))
Subject: Re: Starblade and DL2: Time Warp
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 22:02:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.005900.28697@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> 2261as@gmuvax2.gmu.edu ( ) writes:
>>
>I've a SpaceAce question.  I believe on that scene where there's
>a globe w/ 3 lasers.  You jump across out of range of the laser that's
>firing, into the next one, next laser fires, you jump to the last
>opening, then sometimes I can energize, sometimes I can't (I should
>escape through the tunnel) but I expected to energize and ended
>up firing at the globe then getting zapped.

You're pressing the button too early!  Remember to wait for Dexter's wristwatch
to start flashing before you press the button.

>>>2) If you have seen the Laser disk all the way through, you will see a scene
>>>   after the black knight which lasts about 5 seconds... dirk walks around a
>>>   staircase. I have NEVER seen this in the arcade. 
>>
>>(It should be noted that the "Black Knight" here is the one with the electric
>>sword in the room of square tiles --- not the knight on the horse.)
>>Me neither.  I assumed when I saw this that it was probably the result of
>>moving off the edge of the floor.  Never tried it on the machine, though.
>>
>Huh?  I thought the end of the Black Knight screen was the tunnel
>zooming forward to Dirk to walk through.

I have no idea what room you're talking about.

>The only scene I recall where dirk walks around a staricase was where
>those
>"purple things" come out, you slice the 1st one then just charge up
>the stairs and OH NO! I forgot what else to do, they're closing in
>on me NNNOOOOO!!!

The Giddy Goons.  No, there were lots of other spiral staircases.  Most
notably, preceding the falling disk.

>The deaths in DL aren't THAT gruesome.  Getting stuffed into
>a coffin by undead skeletons, BIG DEAL.  A bunch of lava men
>pop their heads our of a lava pool then one more head with
>Dirk's helmet on.  Seeing the Black knight swing @ Dirk then
>he twirls Dirk's helmet on the tip of his sword.  Getting 
>thoroughly crushed by tentacles, skeleton claw, vines.  Falling
>into deep chasms, flaming pits.  (My personal favorite) swing
>at a flying sword, miss and become a pin cushon.  Actually, that's
>just the favorite one that I remember.

That last one's not gruesome to you, especially compared to DL2 deaths?  How
about these deaths:
The daggers in the "crumbling" room with the pool in the center.
Any scene where Dirk burns (that's more gruesome than the first 5 levels
of DL2).
Any electrocution.
Being stabbed by the Giddy Goons (though most deaths in that room occur when
Dirk falls down the pit within the spiral stairs).
Drinking the "DRINK ME" potion.
The "smash" deaths:  the animated anvil, and the rotating things in the
room with the red-robed spirit and the thorns.

>My question, at the end of the bucking horse screen, Dirk kicks
>open a door, walks through then a flame burst flies into the closed
>door.  Where'd it come from?  Was it the dragon?

Yes.

Other places the dragon can be found:  his hand is carrying Daphne in the "wind
corridor" and prior to the electric knight;  and in the room with the closing
wall (often the first one), if you listen closely at the end you'll hear him
laugh.

  VGR