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ZAPiT Games

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ZAPiT Games, Inc.
Company typePrivate
FoundedMississauga, Ontario, (2003)
Headquarters
Mississauga, Ontario
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ProductsGame Wave Family Entertainment System
WebsiteZAPiT Games

ZAPiT Games, Inc. was a Canadian company based in Mississauga, Ontario. It was formed in 2003 to create a family oriented home video game console.[1] To that goal, it partnered with companies such as National Semiconductor, Panasonic and Altera to create the Game Wave Family Entertainment System.[1]

ZAPiT Games also produces games for the BlackBerry and iPhone.[citation needed]

The console system and the company closed in 2009.[2]

Game Wave Family Entertainment System

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The Game Wave Family Entertainment System is hybrid DVD player and video game console of the seventh generation of video game consoles and was first released in October 2005.[3] The games on the system are trivia based or video variants of traditional board or card games.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b About Us, ZAPiT Games. Accessed October 26, 2007
  2. ^ Pearson, Jordan (22 December 2017). "Christians Loved Canada's Failed Video Game Console". Vice. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Surf the Game Wave to Fun" (Press release). ZAPiT Games. October 2005. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
  4. ^ Arneson, Erik. Game Wave: New Approach to DVD Games Archived 2006-10-08 at the Wayback Machine About.com, December 24, 2005. Accessed October 26, 2007
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