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...buzz or zap. It is played on a simple 20-in. by 20-in. multicolored board with a wheel-shaped pattern. Any number from two to 24 players ask each other questions drawn from 1,000 cards; a correct answer allows the player to move. Hardly Dragon's Lair but with a price tag as high as $40 in the U.S., it is indisputably a Boardwalk of board games...
Coleco has bought the rights to produce a home version of Dragon's Lair and hopes to have it ready some time next year. Some companies, however, think the technology of bringing laser videodisc games into the home may be tricky. Says Parker Bros.' Stearns: "We very much want to participate in the laser videodisc market, and we're exploring it. But to rush headlong into this area when the hardware hasn't been perfected would be foolish...
...earlier entries, Krull offers battles, special effects and a hero and heroine with all the humanity of furniture on feet. But there are ingenuities of décor and character here. The Beast's fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink?) is a hint of mature fatalism: he knows too much about this world-our world...
...does not diminish the accomplishment of Lucas and his youthful team to say that there are flaws nonetheless. The most obvious, ironically, is an overemphasis on effects and a too proud display of odd-looking creatures. Some otherwise breathtaking scenes, such as the visit to Jabba's lair, the hair-raising chases through the redwoods and the climactic space battle, are extended to the point of satiety. The other flaw is the ending: in all three films, Lucas has almost entirely avoided the rank sentimentality to which his story is vulnerable. In the final minutes of Jedi he succumbs, however...
Hoisting high their glasses of Harp Lager, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill hailed St. Patrick's Day at a luncheon in the Speaker's lair on Capitol Hill. But the tableau of bipartisan spirits, which reflected the compromises that have been attained so far on Social Security and a $5 billion jobs program, may be the last symbolic display of unity for a while. Beneath the blarney was brewing what could turn out to be a bloody partisan battle. After the lunch was over, the House Budget Committee passed a plan designed by the Democratic leadership...