History of video games/Platforms/digiBLAST

Development
The digiBLAST was designed by Grey Innovation, a company in Melbourne, Australia.

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

Launch
The digiBLAST saw a western European release in November of 2005 for 79.95 euros. The DigiBLAST sold at a loss. 200,000 digiBLASTs were expected to sell during the 2005 holiday season.

Legacy
The digiBLAST sold 100,000 consoles at most, and was taken off the market around 2008.

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.

Compute
The digiBLAST is powered by a Samsung OCEAN-L-20 SOC containing an ARM9 based CPU.

Hardware
The digiBLAST has an LCD that easily ghosts.

The digiBLAST has mono audio.

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

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

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

Software
The digiBLAST runs Linux, which is loaded from game cartridges.

Notable Games

 * Rayman 3
 * Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4

External Resources

 * Video Game Kraken - digiBLAST page.
 * Game Medium - digiBLAST page.