
The Tentacles are enemy creatures that debuted in the original Dragon's Lair arcade game. When Dirk the Daring enters a seemingly empty weapon room inside Mordroc's Castle, he is met with tentacles that appear before him in all directions which attempt to entrap and kill him with constrictive pressure.
Most of the Tentacles that appear in the weapons room are colored in various shades of green with large warts or boils. The undersides of the Tentacles appear to be covered with suction-cups similar to Octopus tentacles. Whether or not the tentacles are connected to one or several large creatures is uncertain.
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- The Cyclops Worms are sometimes referred to as "tentacles" and they share similar attack strategies.
- In Cardsmiths' Dragon's Lair trading cards Series One, the Tentacles are featured as card #3 ("A TIGHT SQUEEZE") with the description: "Dirk will need to defeat these prehensile predators with a combination of quick moves and deft sword work to advance in his quest for Daphne."[1] Tentacles are also featured on card DD4 ("SQUEEZED TO DEATH" in the "DEATH BY DIRK" subset), but misidentified as a snake: "This little verse/Is to commemorate/Dirk and the snake/That made him asphixiate"[2]