Ecco the Dolphin

Premise Appaloosa Interactive was founded in Hungary in 1983; the first Ecco the Dolphin game was developed by an entirely Hungarian team, originally for the European market. Ecco the Dolphin series was released in part due to Nintendo's exclusive deal with the company Capcom. In the early 1990s, Capcom signed a deal with Nintendo preventing Sega's console from carrying two popular games at the time, Street Fighter I and Final Fight . As a result, Sega created Ecco the Dolphin to develop a competitive advantage against Nintendo by having their own interactive game series.

The games were originally developed for the Sega Genesis and Dreamcast video game consoles , and have been ported to numerous systems. Ettore Annunziata envisioned and conceived the game, while László Szenttornyai, József Molnár, and Zsolt Balogh programmed the game. The story follows the eponymous bottlenose dolphin , who fights extraterrestrial threats to the world. The games are known for their high difficulty as well as their pacifist nature, which is common for Hungarian games.

Ecco the Dolphin was seen as a continuation of the use of animal protagonists in Hungarian content. Ecco was created by Ed Annunziata , who also produced Chakan: The Forever Man , which was also released in 1992.