developer world destruction league: thunder tanks
___MASK76___ Publishing , Inc ., also known as ___MASK76___ , is an American video game publisher . It was founded on October 1 , 1979 and was the world ' s first independent developer and distributor of video games for gaming consoles . Its first products were cartridges for the Atari 2600 video console system published from July 1980 for the US market and from August 1981 for the international market ( UK ). ___MASK86___ was an American video game developer . It was founded by Peter Morawiec and Adrian Stephens in January 1997 , and was based in Santa Monica , California . The , stylized as ___MASK29___ and often referred to as N64 , is ___MASK29___ ' s third home video game console for the international market . Named for its 64 - bit central processing unit , it was released in June 1996 in Japan , September 1996 in North America , March 1997 in Europe and Australia , September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil . It is the industry ' s last major successive home console to use the cartridge as its primary storage format , as all succeeding home consoles up until the ___MASK29___ Switch used an optical format . In addition , current handheld systems ( such as the PlayStation Vita and ___MASK29___ 3DS ) also use cartridges . While the ___MASK29___ 64 was succeeded by ___MASK29___ ' s MiniDVD - based GameCube in November 2001 , the consoles remained available until the system was retired in late 2003 . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can ___MASK5___ two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . BattleTanx : Global Assault is an action game developed and published by ___MASK35___ for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation , in which players control futuristic tanks in a post - apocalyptic scenario . It is a sequel to the Nintendo 64 game " BattleTanx ", which utilized the same method of game play . 3DO went bankrupt before another sequel could be released . The , referred to as GBC , is a handheld game console manufactured by ___MASK29___ , which was released on October 21 , 1998 in Japan and was released in November of the same year in international markets . It is the successor of the Game Boy . Vigilante 8 is a vehicular combat video game developed by ___MASK86___ and published by ___MASK76___ , originally released on the PlayStation in 1998 . Later ports of the game were released for the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color . It is a spinoff of the PC game " Interstate ' 76 ", featuring several of its theme concepts ( auto - vigilantes , the 1970s time frame , and specific fictional vehicle companies ). Interstate ' 76 is a vehicular combat video game for Windows . It was developed and published by ___MASK76___ and released on 28 March 1997 . ___MASK35___ ( formerly THDO on the NASDAQ stock exchange ), also known as 3DO ( short for three - dimensional operating system ), was an American video game company . It was founded in 1991 under the name SMSG , Inc . ( for San Mateo Software Group ) by Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins , in a partnership with seven companies including LG , Matsushita ( now Panasonic ), AT & T Corporation , MCA , Time Warner , and Electronic Arts itself . After 3DO ' s flagship video game console , the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer , failed in the marketplace , the company exited the hardware business and became a third - party video game developer . It went bankrupt in 2003 due to poor sales of its games . Its headquarters were in Redwood City , California in the San Francisco Bay Area . World Destruction League : Thunder Tanks is a car combat shooter game that has a similar gameplay to the Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8 series . Like Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8 , the player must obtain `` powerups '' and defeat enemy vehicles , but must capture the enemy flags in order to win . However , all of the vehicles are tanks , hence its name . The game itself is short , making it quite unpopular among gamers . It was also one of the very first PlayStation 2 titles to be released . It is considered a spiritual successor to the Battletanx series , since it has similar gameplay to that as well , and is made by the same company , 3DO . Also a mototank from Battletanx : Global Assault can be seen in the opening title sequence , and many of the playable tanks are inspired or directly copied from Battletanx . A reversed M - 80 ( only in the PS1 version of Battletanx : Global Assault ) can also be seen in game as the unplayable AI controlled Skorpion Bomb Tank . BattleTanx is a 1998 action game released for the ___MASK29___ 64 , produced by ___MASK35___ . The game was followed by a 1999 sequel , titled "".