Rick Dyer (video game designer) explained

Rick Dyer is an American video game designer and writer best known for creating Dragon's Lair.^{[1] [2] [3]} He founded RDI Video Systems, the developer of Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, and also Thayer's Quest, which was a conversion kit for Dragon's Lair.^[4]

Dyer next designed the video games and Kingdom II: Shadoan,^[5] the former being a remake of Thayer's Quest and the latter a new game based on it.

Dyer is also known for being the person responsible for RDI Video System's Halcyon gaming console, named after the 2001: A Space Odyssey AI 'HAL 9000'.^[6] He also appeared on multiple news networks for the technological advances the LaserDisc system offered between 1983 and 1985 as the figurehead for RDI systems.^[7] Despite the TV appearances and being branded as 'David' among videogame companies in a David and Goliath comparison, Rick Dyer Industries (RDI) Systems went out of business in 1985 and the console was never released.^[8] In the late 1980s, he designed a line of fitness equipment called Powercise. One of his last major successes in the gaming industry was the development of Time Traveler in 1991.

Rick Dyer became a realtor for Apple Tree Realty based in Julian, California.^{[9] [10]}

Works

Year	Name
		Director	Writer	Producer
1983	Dragon's Lair
1984	Space Ace
	Thayer's Quest a.k.a. Kingdom: The Far Reaches
1991	Time Traveler
1996	Kingdom II: Shadoan

External links

• • Moby Games
• Dragon's Lair Project
• Giantbomb.com

Notes and References

1. News: Saltzman . Marc . 2007-05-18 . Review: 'Dragon's Lair' returns on Blu-ray Disc . https://web.archive.org/web/20101025152605/http://articles.cnn.com/2007-05-18/tech/dragons.lair_1_blu-ray-hd-dvd-digital-leisure?_s=PM:TECH . 2010-10-25 . CNN . Gannett News Service.
2. Book: Fox, Matt . The Video Games Guide: 1,000+ Arcade, Console and Computer Games, 1962-2012 . December 1, 2012 . McFarland . 9781476600673 . 2nd . Google Books.
3. April 1996 . Rick Dyer, Shadoan and the Frontier of Animated CD Entertainment . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090804024201/http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.1/articles/dyer.html . August 4, 2009 . Animation World . 1 . 1.
4. Web site: Thayer's Quest . Dragon's Lair Project.
5. Web site: 2024-06-02 . 1992 . The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers . 2024-06-27 . dadgum.com.
6. RDI Halcyon . 2008-09-02 . Incog . YouTube.
7. Rick Dyer and Halcyon - from 1983 1984 - RDI . 2009-04-06 . Gustavo M. B. . YouTube.
8. Web site: de Rochefort . Simone . October 27, 2017 . Something out of science-fiction: A short history of Dragon's Lair . https://web.archive.org/web/20171027163102/https://www.polygon.com/videos/2017/10/27/16537352/stranger-things-season-2-dragons-lair-history . 2017-10-27 . Polygon.
9. Web site: April 21, 2017 . Rick Dyer . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170421195645/http://www.julianappletree.com/about.html . April 21, 2017 . Apple Tree Realty.
10. Web site: Rick Dyer . https://web.archive.org/web/20191022190015/https://www.realtor.com/realestateagents/rick-dyer___1286407_229664308 . 2019-10-22 . www.realtor.com.