Edward Ettore "Ed" Annunziata is best known for the ''
Ecco the Dolphin
''Ecco the Dolphin'' is a series of action-adventure video games developed by Appaloosa Interactive (previously known as Novotrade International) and published by Sega. Appaloosa Interactive was founded in Hungary in 1983; the first ''Ecco the D ...
'' series,
''Kolibri'' for the
Sega 32X
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and as the voice of "Greg" in the
Sega Saturn
The is a home video game console developed by Sega and released on November 22, 1994, in Japan, May 11, 1995, in North America, and July 8, 1995, in Europe. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, it is the successor to the succes ...
game ''
Three Dirty Dwarves''. Later he served as an executive producer for
Nokia
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's
N-Gage
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mobile phone and gaming device, helping create nearly a dozen multiplayer titles for the platform. One of them, ''Smallball Baseball'', was one of the first microtransactions-based games targeting the US market. In 2006, he founded Twofish, Inc. (now part of Live Gamer) with Lee Crawford and Sean Ryan.
Games
*''Pyramid Run'' (1984, Atari 8-bit)
*''
Spider-Man
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'' (1990, Sega Genesis)
*''
Chakan: The Forever Man'' (1992, Sega Genesis)
*''
Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun'' (1992, Sega Genesis)
*''
Ecco the Dolphin
''Ecco the Dolphin'' is a series of action-adventure video games developed by Appaloosa Interactive (previously known as Novotrade International) and published by Sega. Appaloosa Interactive was founded in Hungary in 1983; the first ''Ecco the D ...
'' (1992, Sega Genesis)
*''
Cyborg Justice'' (1993, Sega Genesis) *special thanks
*''
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, the team first appeared in Uncanny X-Men, ''The X-Men'' #1 (September 1963). Although initial ...
'' (1993, Sega Genesis)
*''
Jurassic Park
''Jurassic Park'', later referred to as ''Jurassic World'', is an American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton, centered on a disastrous attempt to create a theme park of De-extinction#Cloning, cloned dinosaurs. It bega ...
'' (1993, Sega CD) *special thanks
*''
Ecco: The Tides of Time'' (1994, Sega Genesis)
*''
X-Men 2: Clone Wars'' (1995, Sega Genesis)
*''
Ecco Jr.'' (1995, Sega Genesis)
*''
Vectorman
''Vectorman'' is a 1995 platform game developed by BlueSky Software and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It was considered a critical and commercial success, achieving its dual goal of retaining interest in the aging Sega Genesis platform ...
'' (1995, Sega Genesis) *special thanks
*''
The Adventures of Batman and Robin'' (1995, Sega Game Gear) *special thanks
*''
Kolibri
''Kolibri'', meaning ''hummingbird'', may refer to:
Technology and engineering
* Kolibri Games, a German gaming company
* 2mm Kolibri, a pistol
* Borgward Kolibri, aka Borgward-Focke BFK-1 Kolibri, a German three-seated utility helicopter built ...
'' (1995, Sega 32X)
*''
Mr. Bones'' (1996, Sega Saturn)
*''
Three Dirty Dwarves'' (1996, Sega Saturn)
*''
Tiny Tank: Up Your Arsenal'' (1999, PlayStation)
*''
Mort the Chicken
''Mort the Chicken'' is a platform video game developed by American studio AndNow and published by Crave Entertainment for the PlayStation. Ubi Soft co-published the game in Europe.
Plot
In a universe where chickens are the dominant species, Mo ...
'' (2000, PlayStation)
*''SmallBall Baseball'' (2000)
*''
SEGA Smashpack'' (2002, Game Boy Advance) *Ecco the Dolphin re-release
*''SNAP Mobile Soccer'' (2005)
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*''Slice HD'' (2011, TwitchGame, LLC)
*''Space War Arena
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'' (2019, Switch)
*''Pizza Tower
''Pizza Tower'' is a 2023 platform game created by the indie developer Tour De Pizza. It follows the pizza chef Peppino Spaghetti, who must scale a tower to prevent the destruction of his pizzeria. Across 20 side-scrolling levels, the player i ...
'' (2023, Windows, Switch)
References
External links
E. Ettore Annunziata
on MobyGames
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Twofish
SmallBall Baseball
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Video game producers
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