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History

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Development

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The digiBLAST was designed by Grey Innovation, a company in Melbourne, Australia.[1]

Names considered for the digiBLAST included "Xplorerr" and "Go-Deck".[2]

Launch

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The digiBLAST saw a western European release in November of 2005 for 79.95 euros.[3][4][5][6] The DigiBLAST sold at a loss.[2] 200,000 digiBLASTs were expected to sell during the 2005 holiday season.[1][4]

Legacy

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The digiBLAST sold 100,000 consoles at most, and was taken off the market around 2008.[7][8]

Grey Innovations survived the failure of the digiBLAST. It still existed as of 2020 and was the first company to produce ventilators for the Australian National Stockpile during the COVID-19 pandemic.[9]

Technology

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Compute

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The digiBLAST is powered by a Samsung OCEAN-L-20 SOC containing an ARM9 based CPU.[10][11][12]

Hardware

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The digiBLAST has an LCD that easily ghosts.[4][13]

The digiBLAST has mono audio.[14]

A demo unit of the digiBLAST had a rechargeable battery that offers 10 hours of playtime.[15] The battery takes four hours to charge.[15] The shipped unit simply took four AA batteries.[16]

A pop out stand is used to prop the console up on tables and other flat surfaces.[17]

An optional MP3 Player module adds 256 megabytes of storage for music.[2]

Software

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The digiBLAST runs Linux, which is loaded from game cartridges.[18][4][2]

Notable Games

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External Resources

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References

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  1. ↑ a b "Sumea:Launchpad. - Aniticipation in Europe for Australian-Made Game Console". web.archive.org. 6 September 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d "First-Touch.nl. Het laatste Nintendo DS Nieuws, Previews, Reviews, Features en meer". web.archive.org. 31 August 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "GadgetZone.nl digiBLAST verkrijgbaar vanaf september". web.archive.org. 17 December 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20051217100631/http://www.gadgetzone.nl/nieuws.php?id=678. 
  4. ↑ a b c d "digiBLAST by Nikko – The Video Game Kraken". Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Dissecta Turns Two! Celebrates with "What a DigiBLAST!"Sponsored by Tantalus Interactive". GamesIndustry.biz.
  6. ↑ "RF Generation: Nikko digiBLAST (Nikko digiBlast)". www.rfgeneration.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  7. ↑ Manikas, Pantelis. "Nikko DigiBlast". News & Reviews for Videogames & Gaming Consoles consall.eu.
  8. ↑ "digiBLAST (video game platform) - Glitchwave video games database". glitchwave.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  9. ↑ Roberts, Peter (1 August 2020). "Grey Innovation delivers first ventilators to national stockpile". Australian Manufacturing Forum. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "digiBLAST". forum.digitpress.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  11. ↑ "https://twitter.com/0x416c6578/status/1002658457533763584". Twitter. Retrieved 21 November 2020. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "ramiropolla/mame-ap2k". GitHub. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  13. ↑ "5 Video Game Consoles That Never Came To The U.S." Playbuzz. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  14. ↑ "digiBLAST: l'abbiamo provato!". web.archive.org. 29 September 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  15. ↑ a b "digiBLAST: l'abbiamo provato!". web.archive.org. 14 September 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  16. ↑ "A closer look at the digiBLAST Personal Media Center handheld video game console". Imgur. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  17. ↑ "Third Rate Gaming - DigiBLAST". Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  18. ↑ Carless, David Jenkins, Simon. "Gamasutra - The Art & Business of Making Games". www.gamasutra.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  19. ↑ a b "Digiblast - Ultimate Console Database". ultimateconsoledatabase.com. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  20. ↑ Barsanti, Sam; Hughes, William (22 March 2021). "The rise and fall of the Game Boy's weirdest rivals" (in en-us). The A.V. Club. https://www.avclub.com/the-game-com-cometh-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-game-boy-1846501180/slides/11. 
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