- Digital Leisure
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Digital Leisure, Inc. Type Private Industry Computer and video games Founded Ontario, Canada
(August 1997)Headquarters Gormley, Ontario, Canada Key people David Foster
Paul GoldWebsite www.digitalleisure.com Digital Leisure, Inc. is a Canadian publisher of software. The company formed in 1997 with the vision to acquire, remaster, and publish numerous classic video-based arcade games such as Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp and Space Ace. These three games were among the first to use TV-quality video in an arcade game. The games were created by Rick Dyer and feature spectacular quality animation by Don Bluth, an ex-Disney animator who is also known for his work on The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven.
The company acquired the North American rights to publish Tender Loving Care, an interactive movie on DVD-ROM and CD-ROM featuring Academy Award nominee John Hurt in early 1999 which broadened the Digital Leisure line-up and met with commercial success. In mid-2000 the company acquired the worldwide publishing rights to Kingdom II: Shadoan, another Rick Dyer creation, for DVD-ROM , DVD-Video and CD-ROM.
In early 2000, the company added the development and publishing rights of Hologram Time Traveler which was released in the fall of 2000 on multiple formates. Selling over $18,000,000 in its arcade debut, Hologram Time Traveler was the first of two coin-operated arcade games to deliver a simulated 3D hologram experience (the other being Holosseum).
In 2001 the company acquired the development and worldwide publishing rights to the entire American Laser Games catalog of nine laser disc arcade titles including Mad Dog McCree, Crime Patrol and Who Shot Johnny Rock? These titles have been released over the last years on CD-ROM and DVD-Video with Space Pirates and Fast Draw Showdown released in late 2005.
In 2003, Digital Leisure signed a distribution agreement with Empire Interactive to release the "Virtual Music Studio" brand eJay to the North American market. In 2008, Empire Interactive was purchased by Silver Star Holdings and Digital Leisure ceased all distribution of the eJay product line.
In 2007, Digital Leisure in partnership with Bluth Group Ltd, restored and remastered some of its more popular titles to high definition to be played in Blu-ray and HD DVD players.
The company began development on a line of Wii-based titles in the Summer of 2008, and had their first release, The Incredible Maze on Nintendo's WiiWare service October 24, 2008. Digital Leisure followed up this release in November 2008 with Sudoku Challenge!. On March 27, 2009, Digital Leisure released Texas Hold'em Tournament on the WiiWare service and plans to follow up these releases with other WiiWare and disc based titles in the near future.
Contents
Digital Leisure Product Line
Optical Disc
- Dragon's Lair
- Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp
- Space Ace
- Thayer's Quest
- Time Traveler (video game)
- Shadoan
- Tender Loving Care
WiiWare Games
- The Incredible Maze
- Sudoku Challenge!
- Texas Hold'em Tournament
- Word Searcher
- Copter Crisis
- Fast Draw Showdown
- 5 in 1 Solitaire
- Chess Challenge!
- Mix Superstar
Wii Games
- Mad Dog McCree Gunslinger Pack
- Dragon's Lair Trilogy
Nintendo DSi / DSiWare Games
- Dragon's Lair
- Sudoku Challenge!
- Word Searcher
- Chess Challenge!
- 5 in 1 Solitaire
- Mega Words
- Match Up!
- Space Ace
- Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp
American Laser Games
- Mad Dog McCree
- Who Shot Johnny Rock?
- Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold
- Space Pirates
- Crime Patrol
- Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars
- Fast Draw Showdown
- The Last Bounty Hunter
iPhone Games
- Dragon's Lair
- Space Ace
- Braindead 13
- Mad Dog McCree
- Sudoku 100,000,000
External links
- Digital Leisure channel on YouTube
- Digital Leisure profile on MobyGames
- Censored Dragons Lair's Longplay video on YouTube.
Categories:- Video game companies of Canada
- Companies established in 1997
- Video game developers
- Whitchurch–Stouffville
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