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balls.gif - A little piece of 1996

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A file called balls.gif sat in the banner of NVIDIA's 1996 “NVelope Your Senses” games page: a tiny animated dodecahedron, spinning through 28 frames.

Hidden inside its GIF comment was a maker's signature:
GifBuilder 0.2 by Yves Piguet

GifBuilder was Macintosh freeware. That signature points to a wonderfully humble origin: an early NVIDIA website animation made on a Mac with a hobbyist tool.

The quiet joke? A file named balls.gif, on a site whose hero graphic was a wireframe hemisphere resolving into a smooth sphere, was actually a polyhedron. Flat faces - the very thing NV1's curved-surface architecture was designed to move beyond.

One little animation. A whole universe of lore.

Wayback Machine
Nvelop Your Senses



Battle Arena ToshindenTM


You have received
an invitation...

...to the fight of a lifetime.

The greatest martial arts experts have been gathered in secret to compete in a death-defying tournament. Fighters in this "Invitation Only" competition risk it all for the chance to be hailed as the strongest, most invincible warrior in the world. It is your destiny as a warrior to gain the ultimate glory in victory or suffer defeat's final reward.
For order information, see the Playmates web site.

Battle Arena Toshinden and its characters are trademarks of Takara Co., Ltd. Copyright © Takara, Co. Ltd. 1996. All rights reserved. MS-DOS version reprogrammed by Digital Dialect. Copyright © Digital Dialect. Playmates is a registered trademark of Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. Copyright © Playmates Interactive Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved.



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