SEATTLE -- Digital Eclipse, a relatively unknown video game design company in the United States, has achieved the incredible: It has taken a nearly 20-year-old video game, adapted it for a 12-year-old video game system and in process created a technological breakthrough.
Why would anybody care about an ancient game running on an obsolete system? When the game is "Dragon's Lair," one of the best-remembered games of the '80s, and the system is Game Boy, the most popular game system of all time, any working union is bound to create news.
The problem with adapting "Dragon's Lair," which first came out in 1983, to modern game systems is the game's graphics. Stored on laser disc, "Dragon's Lair" featured cartoon animation instead of computer game graphics. The programming was little more than a collection of video clips spliced together by a game engine. It was the story of a knight name Dirk exploring an enchanted castle as he rescued a princess.