Silicon Graphics
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Founded: 1981-11-09 | ||
Defunct: 2009-05-11 | ||
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Silicon Graphics, Inc., generally known as SGI (though historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American manufacturer of high performance computing solutions, usually for rendering computer graphics.
SGI's products and solutions were widely used by the video game industry during the 1990s, most notably as the component of the Nintendo 64. For the first half of the 1990s, they were also widely used by Sega, at one point working on the graphics hardware for the Sega Saturn, before Sega of Japan stepped in and cancelled the contract.
Primarily SGI workstations were used across the video game industry to generate 3D renders, usually for promotional material, in-game video or in some cases, to create sprites with a pseudo 3D look. As time went on, the need for dedicated graphics workstations decreased, as typical office (or gaming) computers had enough computational power to achieve similar results.
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Games made with Silicon Graphics hardware
Mega Drive
- Batman Forever (1995)
- Earthworm Jim 2 (1995)
- Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (1994)
- The New Breed ( ?)
- Shaq Fu (1994)
- Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (1996)
- Spot Goes to Hollywood (1995)
Mega-CD
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1993)
- Ecco: The Tides of Time (1994)
- Flashback (1993)
- Last Action Hero ( ?)
- Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine (1994)
- Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (1994)
- Microcosm (1994)
- World Cup Golf: Professional Edition (1996)
32X
- FIFA Soccer 96 (1995)
- Soul Star X ( ?)
- Spider-Man: Web of Fire (1996)
- Spot Goes to Hollywood ( ?)
- Virtual Golf (1996)
Saturn
- Blam! Machinehead (1996)
- Bug Too! (1996)
- Bug! (1995)
- Chaos Control (1995)
- Chaos Control Remix (1996)
- Clockwork Knight (1994)
- Earthworm Jim 2 (1995)
- FIFA Soccer 96 (1995)
- Hyper 3D Pinball (1996)
- The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga (1996)
- Johnny Bazookatone (1996)
- Panzer Dragoon (1995)
- Shellshock (1996)
- Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (1996)
- Spot Goes to Hollywood ( ?)
- Virtual Golf (1996)
Dreamcast
- Shenmue (1999)
Windows PC
- Bug Too! (1996)
- Bug! (1995)
- Panzer Dragoon (1995)
- Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (1996)