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At Disney in the 1970s he was an animator on Robin Hood, The Rescuers, and Pete's Dragon. Afterwards he left Disney and independently produced a short film titled Banjo the Woodpile Cat as a demonstration of his ability, and this led to work on an animated segment of the live-action film Xanadu ( 1980) and his most noteworthy film, The Secret of NIMH ( 1982).

Teaming up with Rick Dyer , he created the groundbreaking arcade video game Dragon's Lair ( 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu), which let the player control a cartoonA cartoon is a form of art with diverse origins and even more diverse modern meanings. In its historical original meaning, a cartoon is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further artwork, such as a painting. However, cartoons were typicall-animated character on screen (whose adventures were played off a laserdiscLaserdisc was the first optical disc storage medium, and was used primarily for the presentation of movies. During its development, the format was referred to as the "Optical Videodisc System" before MCA, who owned the patent on the technology, re-named t). This was followed in 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe by Space AceSpace Ace is a Laserdisc arcade game produced by Don Bluth Studios, Cinematronics, and RDI Video Systems. It was released in 1984 after the Dragon's Lair game. External links Arcade games 1984 computer and video games., a science-fiction game based on the same technology, but which gave the player a choice of different routes to take through the story; and Dragon's Lair II, a sequel which was very rare in arcadesA video arcade is a place where people play arcade video games. Traditionally, customers of these establishments were overwhelmingly male with teens making up a majority of the patrons. However presently families are the largest arcade constituent, mainly.

His next two films, An American TailAn American Tail is an animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment amd directed by Don Bluth. Originally released in movie theatres on November 21, 1986 by Universal Pictures, the film follows the story of a family of Jewish Russian ( 19861986 is a common year starting on Wednesday. Events January January 1 Spain and Portugal enter the European Community January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. January 9 After losing a pa) and The Land Before Time ( 1988), did moderately well in theaters and each launched a line of sequels (most of which were released direct-to-video, and none of which Bluth worked on). But by the end of the decade and through the 1990s, Bluth films had dropped significantly in quality and box office returns with titles such as All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-A-Doodle , Thumbelina , A Troll in Central Park , The Pebble and the Penguin , and the science-fiction film Titan A.E.. His Anastasia ( 1997) found slightly more popularity by using well-known Hollywood stars as its voice talent and by sticking closer to long-proven Disney formulas: a sassy and resourceful princess driven to become more than she is, a cruel and conniving villain who uses dark magic, and a comic-relief sidekick.

A recent attempt to capitalize on Dragon's Lair nostalgia by releasing the computer game Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair ( 2002) was unsuccessful; the game was panned by critics as being flat and uninteresting.