3DO is a video gaming hardware format developed by The 3DO Company. It was created by Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts. The technical details were designed by Dave Needle and RJ Mical from New Technology Group.
The Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I) is a type of digital optical disc used for storing data and a hardware platform developed by Philips, a Dutch company, and Sony, a Japanese company. It was built on existing CD formats like CDDA and CD-ROM and described in the Green Book specifications, also created by Philips and Sony. The format was designed to combine audio, text, and graphics.
The TurboGrafx-16, called the PC Engine in Japan and other countries outside North America, was a home video game console created by Hudson Soft and made by NEC. It was released in Japan in 1987 and in North America in 1989. As the first console of the fourth generation, it was introduced in Japan to compete with Nintendo’s Family Computer.
The 32X was an add-on device for the Sega Genesis video game console. It was given the code name “Project Mars” and was created to increase the Genesis’s power and help it move into the 32-bit era until the Sega Saturn was released. The 32X used its own special game cartridges and had its own collection of games.
The 64DD is a device created by Nintendo to improve the Nintendo 64 console. It used rewritable magnetic disks and allowed online connections. Introduced in 1995, it was delayed multiple times and finally released in Japan on December 11, 1999.
E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo) was an annual event for the video game industry organized by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). It took place mainly in Los Angeles from 1995 to 2019, and its last event was held online in 2021. The event brought together developers, publishers, hardware makers, and other professionals who used it to share news about new games, hardware, and products with the press.
Toys-to-life is a type of video game that uses physical toys, such as figurines or action figures, to interact with the game. Different technologies help these toys work in the game, including image recognition, quick response (QR) codes, Bluetooth, and near field communication (NFC). These technologies allow the game to detect how close a figurine is to the device and save a player’s progress in a memory inside the toy.
Yoshi’s Woolly World is a 2015 platform game created by Good-Feel and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. It follows Yoshi’s New Island (2014) and is the seventh main game in the Yoshi series. It is the third Yoshi game released for a home console, making it the first home console game in the series since 1997’s Yoshi’s Story, which was over 17 years earlier.
Skylanders: Trap Team is a 3D platform game created in 2014 by Toys for Bob and Beenox. It was published by Activision and is the fourth part of the Skylanders video game series. The game was released on October 2, 2014, in Australasia; October 5, 2014, in North America; and October 10, 2014, in Europe.
Skylanders is a toys-to-life action-adventure video game series created by an American company called Toys for Bob and published by Activision. Players use collectible figurines of characters from the games, which have special technology called NFC. These figurines work with a device called the “Portal of Power,” a themed reader that connects to the figurines.