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Nintendo 64
Home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.
It was the last major home console to use the ROM cartridge as its primary storage format until the Switch in 2017. Also was the first home console to feature trilinear filtering, which allowed textures to look very smooth(Wikipedia). -
Nokia 9000 Communicator
The first product in Nokia's Communicator series. It was a cell phone that was a smartphone before the word was invented. It rolled all of the features of a computer into a phone, putting email, web browsing, fax, word processing, and spreadsheets into a single pocketable device(Medium). -
Toshiba SD-3000
The first DVD player was created by Sony Corporation in Japan in collaboration with Pacific Digital Company from the United States in 1997(Wikipedia). DVD offered better picture quality than VHS tape plus the convenience of a CD-like disc that wasn’t prone to wear. -
Tamagotchi
Created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. Tamagotchis are a small alien species that deposited an egg on Earth to see what life was like, and it is up to the player to raise the egg into an adult creature(Wikipedia). The game taught people about the different cycles of life and how the care one provides makes a difference. -
Game Boy Color
Handheld game console manufactured by Nintendo. Featured a color screen rather than monochrome. It was lighter and capable of displaying multiple colors, and the processing power was twice as fast. It is the final handheld to feature 8-bit graphics(Wikipedia).
