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Digital Leisure, a company dedicated to remastering and publishing classic full-motion video titles on current-generation platforms, has been keeping a close watch over the iPhone development community. After observing the potential the platform held for modern-day FMV titles like Hysteria Project and The Odyssey, Digital Leisure has joined the App Store with an iPhone port of the 1984 arcade title Space Ace ($4.99).
Space Ace, the sci-fi follow-up to the landmark laserdisc arcade game Dragon’s Lair, featured animation directed by Don Bluth (An American Tail, The Secret of NIMH). Space Ace’s gameplay is also much more ambitious than Dragon’s Lair’s — the game allows players the choice of playing as either wimpy Dexter or the beefed-up Ace during certain scenes, effectively adding branching gameplay paths.
Digital Leisure notes that its next title slated for release on the iPhone is a port of Mad Dog McCree, a Western-themed light gun shooter featuring live-action video. Here’s hoping that an iPhone version of Dragon’s Lair is also in the works…or better yet, an adaptation of Sega’s holographic FMV game Time Traveler.
nice game!
The touch screen should significantly improve the game play (which was really what is lacking in these types of games).
[...] premier platform for the interactive movie genre, with the App Store offering arcade classics like Space Ace alongside modern-day FMV epics like The Odyssey and Hysteria [...]