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This category is for articles concerning games that support figurines, cards, and other NFC-embedded items under Nintendo's Amiibo brand, Amiibos are NFC toys exclusive to the Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch.
An add-on by the name of Sonic Origins Plus was released in 2023, which added all twelve Game Gear Sonic games: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Drift, Sonic Drift 2, Sonic Spinball, Sonic Blast, Sonic Labyrinth, Tails' Skypatrol, Tails Adventure, and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
By the end of 2020, total Nintendo Switch family units had outsold the lifetime sales of the Nintendo 3DS, its handheld console predecessor, by selling nearly 80 million units. [2] As of December 31, 2024, 150.86 million Nintendo Switch consoles had been shipped, with over 1.35 billion copies of games having been shipped for the platform. [3]
Amiibo [a] (/ ə ˈ m iː b oʊ /, ə-MEE-boh; stylized as amiibo; plural: Amiibo [1]) is a toys-to-life platform by Nintendo, which was launched in November 2014.It consists of a wireless communications and storage protocol for connecting figurines to the Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch video game consoles.
Some SNK staff formed Dimps the following year, and developed original 2D Sonic games—Sonic Advance (2001), Sonic Advance 2 (2002), and Sonic Advance 3 (2004)—for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance (GBA). [92] [93] Sonic Advance was the first original Sonic game released for a Nintendo console after Sega and Nintendo's fierce rivalry in the 1990s.
[1] [2] The 1991 release of Sonic the Hedgehog is considered significant in video game history, as it increased the Sega Genesis's sales and Sega displaced Nintendo as the leading video game company. [3] Some Sonic Team games, such as the Sonic games and Nights, are considered among the greatest of all time. [4] [5]
Ryujinx, written in C#, was the first Switch emulator to boot commercial games. [6] [7] In April 2018, it was reported that it was initially able to play part of Cave Story. [6] According to the creator, gdkchan, Ryujinx has a focus on correctness, rather than adding game-specific hacks as is done by some console emulators. [8]
Sonic Gems Collection is a compilation of obscure video games published by Sega for various consoles, such as the Sega CD, Sega Saturn, and Game Gear.It primarily focuses on Sonic the Hedgehog games, including Sonic CD (1993), [1] Sonic the Fighters (1996), Sonic R (1997), and six of the twelve Sonic games released for the Game Gear, with the other six having been included in the previous ...