ZAPiT Games, Inc. is a company based in Mississauga, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It was formed in 2003 to create a family oriented video game console

Video game console

A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...

. To that goal, it partnered with companies such as National Semiconductor

National Semiconductor

National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems,formerly headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The products of National Semiconductor included power management circuits, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers,...

, Panasonic

Panasonic

Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...

 and Altera

Altera

Altera Corporation is a Silicon Valley manufacturer of PLDs . The company offered its first programmable logic device in 1984. PLDs can be reprogrammed during the design cycle as well as in the field to perform multiple functions, and they support a fairly fast design process...

 to create the Game Wave Family Entertainment System

Game Wave Family Entertainment System

The Game Wave Family Entertainment System is a hybrid DVD player and video game console. It was first released in Canada on October 2005. It is part of the seventh generation of gaming....

.

ZAPiT Games also produces games for the BlackBerry

BlackBerry

BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...

 and iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

.

Game Wave Family Entertainment System

The Game Wave Family Entertainment System

Game Wave Family Entertainment System

The Game Wave Family Entertainment System is a hybrid DVD player and video game console. It was first released in Canada on October 2005. It is part of the seventh generation of gaming....

 is hybrid DVD player

DVD player

A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. These devices were invented in 1997 and continue to thrive...

 and video game console of the seventh generation of video game consoles

History of video game consoles (seventh generation)

In the history of video games, the seventh generation of consoles is the current generation , and includes consoles released since late by Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony...

 and was first released on October 2005. The games on the system are trivia

Trivia

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based or video variants of traditional board or card games.