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• Ear Worm: Dragon's Lair's famous attract mode.
  • The fanfare upon clearing a room; also doubles as a Most Wonderful Sound.
• Motive Decay: A new record. Daphne's mother goes from telling Dirk to rescue Daphne to attempting to murder him for losing her within seconds.
• Nightmare Fuel: Many of the death animations.
  • The Lava Men are a bit creepy, as they jump on Dirk in a lava crater and somehow turn him in one of them.
• Porting Disaster: Multiple ports range into this area, but the worst is probably the infamous NES port, which you may know through The Angry Video Game Nerd's review of it.
  • Averted with the recent Wii port, which might be the closest thing to perfect.
  • A more literal version of this trope was the Sega CD port, which featured a smaller display, grainy graphics with muted or greyed out colors, and a slightly reduced FPS.
• That One Level: The battle with the Lizard King; fifteen seconds of waiting followed by five seconds of split-second button inputs. Dirk's badass reaction to clearing the room is worth the pain, though.
  • Well, Lizard King becomes a ton easier to beat when you play it on the DVD player port. On the other hand... the electric floor stage becomes a ton harder. Especially if you play it on the real hardware.