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title: "Dragon’s Lair"
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description: "Dirk can walk, crawl, or jump forward, and he has an array of weapons that he can discover and use to dispose of enemies."
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Dragon's Lair | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases | NintendoReporters

 [![Dragon’s Lair](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/dragon-s-lair.png "Dragon’s Lair")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/dragon-s-lair.png)Dirk can walk, crawl, or jump forward, and he has an array of weapons that he can discover and use to dispose of enemies.

The controller layout is reversed from other mainstream NES titles, with Select functioning as the Pause-button while Start is used for the Candle object (which helps reveal hidden weapons). Also, B is used for jumping, and A for attacking (the input of the A & B buttons is almost always the opposite in similar NES games).

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