genre sonic riders
The is a 32 - bit fifth - generation home ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ console that was developed by Sega and released on November 22 , 1994 in Japan , May 11 , 1995 in North America , and July 8 , 1995 in Europe as the successor to the successful Sega Genesis . The Saturn has a dual - CPU architecture and eight processors . Its games are in CD - ROM format , and its ___MASK73___ library contains several arcade ports as well as original titles . Windows NT is a ___MASK97___ of operating systems produced by Microsoft , the first version of which was released in July 1993 . It is a processor - independent , multiprocessing , multi - user operating system . Sonic Riders (  Sonikku Raidzu ) is a 2006 ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ spin - off developed by Sonic Team , with production assistance by Now Production , for the PlayStation 2 , GameCube , Xbox and Microsoft Windows . It is the fourth ___MASK78___ ___MASK73___ in the Sonic the Hedgehog series , preceded by Sonic Drift , Sonic Drift 2 and Sonic R . The ___MASK73___ was released to start off the 15th anniversary of the release of the Sonic the Hedgehog series . For a short while , the Microsoft Xbox version of the ___MASK73___ was released with a free Sonic X DVD . This ___MASK73___ introduces five new playable characters , the Babylon Rogues and the E - 10000 series . A sequel to Sonic Riders , entitled Sonic Riders : Zero Gravity , was released in 2008 for the Wii and PlayStation 2 , followed by the Kinect - required ___MASK73___ Sonic Free Riders for the Xbox 360 in 2010 . This was the last Sonic the Hedgehog ___MASK73___ for the GameCube and Microsoft Xbox . Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group , which is engaged in business through its four operating components  electronics ( ___MASK83___ games , network services and medical business ), motion pictures , ___MASK92___ and financial services . These make Sony one of the most comprehensive ___MASK36___ companies in the world . Sony ' s principal business operations include Sony Corporation , Sony Pictures ___MASK36___ , Sony Interactive ___MASK36___ , Sony Music ___MASK36___ , Sony Mobile ( formerly Sony Ericsson ) and Sony Financial . Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of 2013 , the fourth - largest television manufacturer in the world , after Samsung Electronics , LG Electronics and TCL . North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the ___MASK6___ Hemisphere . It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas . It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean , to the east by the Atlantic Ocean , to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea . The PlayStation 2 ( abbreviated as PS2 ) is a home ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ console that was developed by Sony Computer ___MASK36___ . It is the successor to the PlayStation , and is the second installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles . It was released on March 4 , 2000 in Japan , October 26 , 2000 in North America , November 24 , 2000 in Europe , and November 17 , 2000 in Australia . It competed with Sega ' s Dreamcast , Microsoft ' s Xbox , and Nintendo ' s GameCube in the sixth generation of ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ consoles . Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s , Nintendo then developed into a ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ company in the 1970s , ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan ' s third most - valuable company with a market value of over $ 85 billion . From 1992 until 2016 , Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball ' s Seattle Mariners . IBM PC compatible computers are those similar to the original IBM PC , XT , and AT , able to run the same software and support the same expansion cards as those . Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones , or IBM clones . They duplicate almost exactly all the significant features of the PC architecture , facilitated by IBM ' s choice of commodity hardware components and ___MASK94___ manufacturers ' ability to reverse engineer the BIOS firmware using a " clean room design " technique . Columbia Data Products built the first clone of the IBM personal computer by a clean room implementation of its BIOS . Following the release of " Sonic ___MASK1___ " in 1998 , some staff of Sonic Team moved to the United States to form Sonic Team USA . Sega ' s financial troubles led to several major structural changes at the company in the early 2000s , with development division United Game Artists being absorbed by Sonic Team in 2003 , and Sonic Team USA eventually becoming Sega Studios USA in 2004 . Sonic R is a 1997 ___MASK90___ developed by Traveller ' s Tales and Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Sega Saturn , and re - released for Microsoft Windows in 1998 . It was re - released for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube as part of the " Sonic Gems Collection " in 2005 . The player takes control of one of ten " Sonic " series characters and participate in races on various " Sonic "- themed race tracks . The story focuses the characters ' efforts to win a series of races and prevent Doctor Robotnik from stealing the Chaos Emeralds and enslaving the world . Kart ___MASK78___ or karting is a variant of open - wheel motorsport with small , open , four - wheeled vehicles called karts , go - karts , or gearbox / shifter karts depending on the design . They are usually raced on scaled - down circuits . Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher ranks of motorsports . Travellers Tales ( UK ) Ltd ., doing business as Traveller ' s Tales , is a British ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ developer and a subsidiary of TT Games . The ___MASK90___ genre is the genre of video games , either in the first - person or third - person perspective , in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land , air , or sea vehicles . They may be based on anything from real - world racing leagues to entirely fantastical settings . In general , they can be distributed along a spectrum anywhere between hardcore simulations , and simpler arcade racing games . Racing games may also fall under the category of sports games . Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia , is a ___MASK57___ comprising the mainland of the Australian continent , the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands . It is the world ' s sixth - largest ___MASK57___ by total area . The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea , Indonesia and East Timor to the north ; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north - east ; and New Zealand to the south - east . Australia ' s capital is Canberra , and its largest urban area is Sydney . Gameplay . Players race around a series of tracks in either single races or a Grand Prix consisting of six courses , collecting rings and using power - ups to obtain First Place . Each playable character has different positive and negative attributes , and can utilize a Special Ability at the cost of 2 rings . The , stylized as NINTENDO and often referred to as N64 , is Nintendo ' s third home ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ 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 Nintendo Switch used an optical format . In addition , current handheld systems ( such as the PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS ) also use cartridges . While the Nintendo 64 was succeeded by Nintendo ' s MiniDVD - based GameCube in November 2001 , the consoles remained available until the system was retired in late 2003 . A ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ console is an electronic , digital or computer device that outputs a ___MASK83___ signal or visual image to display a ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ that one or more people can ___MASK88___ . Windows Mobile is a ___MASK97___ of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs . Windows Embedded Compact , formerly Windows Embedded CE and Windows CE , is an operating system subfamily developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows Embedded ___MASK97___ of products . Unlike Windows Embedded Standard , which is based on Windows NT , Windows Embedded Compact uses a different hybrid kernel . Microsoft licenses Windows CE to original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ), who can modify and create their own user interfaces and experiences , with Windows CE providing the technical foundation to do so . The is a home ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ console released by Sega on November 27 , 1998 in Japan , September 9 , 1999 in North America , and October 14 , 1999 in Europe . It was the first in the sixth generation of ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ consoles , preceding Sony ' s PlayStation 2 , Nintendo ' s GameCube and Microsoft ' s Xbox . The Dreamcast was Sega ' s final home console , marking the end of the company ' s 18 years in the console market . , released in Europe as Sonic Drift ___MASK78___ , is a kart ___MASK90___ developed and published by Sega for the Game Gear . The game serves as a sequel to " Sonic Drift ", and was released in Japan and Europe in March 1995 , and later in North America in November 1995 . It added three characters : Knuckles , Fang the Sniper , and Metal Sonic , and marked the first time the last two were playable characters . Microsoft Windows ( or simply Windows ) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed , marketed , and sold by Microsoft . It consists of several families of operating systems , each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture . Active Windows families include Windows NT , Windows Embedded and Windows Phone ; these may encompass subfamilies , e . g . Windows Embedded Compact ( Windows CE ) or Windows Server . Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x ; Windows 10 Mobile is an active product , unrelated to the defunct ___MASK97___ Windows Mobile . After series villain Doctor Eggman releases an ancient monster , protagonist Sonic the Hedgehog vows to stop him collecting the Chaos Emeralds . The other playable characters are flying fox Miles " Tails " Prower , ___MASK21___ interest Amy Rose , Knuckles the Echidna , who plans to reassemble the Master Emerald , angler Big the ___MASK48___ , and E - 102 Gamma , one of Eggman ' s robots . Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational ___MASK66___ company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells computer software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of 2016 , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . The original console in the series was the first ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ console to ship 100 million units , 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch . Its successor , the PlayStation 2 , was released in 2000 . The PlayStation 2 is the best - selling home console to date , having reached over 155 million units sold as of December 28 , 2012 . Sony ' s next console , the PlayStation 3 , was released in 2006 and has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013 . Sony ' s latest console , the PlayStation 4 , was released in 2013 , selling 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale , becoming the fastest selling console in ___MASK95___ . A ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ is an electronic ___MASK73___ that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a ___MASK83___ device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " ___MASK83___ " in " ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can produce two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize ___MASK83___ games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . In the ___MASK95___ of video games , the sixth - generation era ( sometimes referred to as the 128 - bit era ; see " Bits and system power " below ) refers to the computer and video games , video game consoles , and video game handhelds available at the turn of the 21st century which was from 1998 to 2008 . Platforms of the sixth generation include the Sega Dreamcast , Sony PlayStation 2 , Nintendo GameCube , and Microsoft Xbox . This era began on November 27 , 1998 with the Japanese release of the Dreamcast , and it was joined by the PlayStation 2 in March 2000 and the GameCube and Xbox in 2001 . The Dreamcast was discontinued in 2001 , the GameCube in 2007 , Xbox in 2009 and PlayStation 2 in 2013 . Though the seventh generation of consoles started in November 2005 with the launch of the Xbox 360 , the sixth generation did not end until January 2013 , when Sony announced that the PlayStation 2 had been discontinued worldwide . A race track ( or ' racetrack ', ' ___MASK78___ track ' or ' ___MASK78___ circuit ') is a facility built for ___MASK78___ of vehicles , athletes , or animals ( e . g . horse ___MASK78___ or greyhound ___MASK78___ ). A race track also may feature grandstands or concourses . Racetracks are also used in the ___MASK62___ of animal locomotion . Some motorsport tracks are called speedways . In ___MASK83___ games , power - ups are objects that instantly benefit or add extra abilities to the ___MASK73___ character as a ___MASK73___ mechanic . This is in contrast to an item , which may or may not have a benefit and can be used at a time chosen by the player . Although often collected directly through touch , power - ups can sometimes only be gained by collecting several related items , such as the floating letters of the word ' EXTEND ' in " Bubble Bobble ". Well known examples of power - ups that have entered popular ___MASK47___ include the power pellets from " Pac - Man " ( regarded as the first power - up ) and the Super Mushroom from " Super Mario Bros .", which ranked first in UGO Networks ' " Top 11 Video Game Powerups ". The is an 8 - bit handheld ___MASK73___ console released by Sega on October 6 , 1990 in Japan , in North America and Europe , and Australia in 1992 . The ___MASK73___ Gear primarily competed with Nintendo ' s ___MASK73___ Boy , the Atari Lynx and NEC ' s TurboExpress . The handheld shares much of its hardware with the Master System and is able to ___MASK88___ its own titles as well as those of the Master System , the latter being made possible by the use of an adapter . Containing a full - color backlit screen with a landscape format , Sega positioned the ___MASK73___ Gear as a technologically superior handheld to the ___MASK73___ Boy . Sonic Gems Collection is a compilation of " Sonic the Hedgehog " ___MASK83___ games developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube consoles . Unlike Sega ' s prior " Sonic " compilation " Sonic Mega Collection ", which focused on the most popular entries in the series , " Gems Collection " centers more around rare and obscure games . Windows IoT , formerly Windows Embedded , is a ___MASK97___ of operating systems from Microsoft designed for use in embedded systems . Microsoft currently has three different subfamilies of operating systems for embedded devices targeting a wide market , ranging from small - footprint , real - time devices to point of sale ( POS ) devices like kiosks . Windows Embedded operating systems are available to original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ), who make it available to end users preloaded with their hardware , in addition to volume license customers in some cases . The is a home ___MASK83___ ___MASK73___ console released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14 , 2001 ; in North America on November 18 , 2001 ; in Europe on May 3 , 2002 ; and in Australia on May 17 , 2002 . The sixth - generation console is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and competed with Sony Computer ___MASK36___ ' s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft ' s Xbox . Windows Phone ( WP ) is a ___MASK97___ of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune . Windows Phone features a new user interface derived from Metro design language . Unlike Windows Mobile , it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market . It was first launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7 . Windows Phone 8 . 1 is the latest public release of the operating system , released to manufacturing on April 14 , 2014 .