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Dragon's Lair and Space Ace are both on iOS AppStore. Space Ace was a much easier game to beat in the arcades but I never got far on Dragon's Lair. Now, thanks to the mobile app, I can finish the game while my son watches on - amazed at my dexterity. A so the torch is passed.

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But was the iOS version ever fixed? I got it, played up to the point where the giant suit of armor is sending electricity down the tiled floor at Dirk who has to jump several times to avoid it ("Electric Knight Battle" according to some walkthroughs). There was just no way to get through that scene on iPad. Many people reported the same issue.

It's a timing trick to get past it! This scene mirror reverses so you may need to invert left/right but the solution is that once you've gone left-right and then jumped forward you'll have to do something like left-right-left-<press right again IMMEDIATELY after pressing left before the animation stops>. Then a final forward, then sword. Then you go on.

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