Overview
Digital Eclipse was a game development studio based in Emeryville, USA. It was established by
Andrew Ayre in 1992.
In the beginning they were working on emulating older
Williams arcade games on an Apple Macintosh (
Defender,
Stargate and
Joust) and showed Williams the results. The studio ended up partnering with Williams to begin bringing classic arcade games from Williams' considerable catalog (
Atari,
Bally,
Midway, Williams, and assorted smaller companies) to home systems and consoles.
In 2003, the company merged with
ImaginEngine Corp. into
Backbone Entertainment, and two years later, in March 2005, Backbone as a whole merged with
The Collective into
Foundation 9 Entertainment.
The history of the Emeryville-based studio ends in October 2012 when most of the staff was laid off.
The name lived on when on 8th June 2015
Other Ocean Group Inc. announced the acquisition of the Digital Eclipse brand. Other Ocean had become the new home of former founder Andrew Ayre. Previously he headed Backbone studio
Backbone Charlottetown in Canada and in May 2007 he and several other former Digital Eclipse employees spun off from Backbone becoming
Other Ocean Interactive Ltd.Digital Eclipse now exists as a division of
Other Ocean Emeryville.
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