I've been playing this Japanese RPG for the past 
few days, called Emerald Dragon.  Apparently, it 
first came out around '88-89 on an obsure game 
station, but was later released on PC Engine, 
SFC, and some others.  

Now, here's my question.  For these older 
platform games that used anime art for cutscenes 
and stuff throughout the game, how were these 
made?  Did they make cels and digitize them?  Or 
are these completely made on computers so that 
each individual game system can handle a certain 
amount of data...  Then, if this is true, when 
did they start to use cels for games?

I'm still in the process of finding who the 
character designer was for this game, but here's 
a little taste of what they're like and why, if 
cels do exist, I'd *love* to find them.  lol

Rekka