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Selected anniversaries

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Selected anniversaries January

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January 2001: French game publisher Infogrames took over Hasbro Interactive.
1997-01-02: Blizzard Entertainment released Diablo for personal computers.
2006-01-09: Take-Two Interactive acquired Irrational Games.
2005-01-12: Video game companies and players worldwide donate money to the UNICEF South Asian Tsunami Relief Fund.
2006-01-26: Nintendo announced a redesigned version of the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo DS Lite.
1999-01-31: Konami released Silent Hill for the PlayStation.

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February 1969 – Steve Russell produced the first version of Spacewar! for the PDP-1 computer at MIT.
February 2003 – Midway closed Midway Games West (originally Atari Games), the last remnant of the original Atari company.
February 3, 1996 – JT Storage merged with Atari.
February 19, 2002 – Sierra On-Line renamed itself Sierra Entertainment as part of an effort to expand its product line.
February 27, 1996 – Nintendo and Game Freak released Pokémon Red and Green for the Game Boy in Japan.
February 28, 2002 – Monolith Soft released Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht for the PlayStation 2.

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March 1991: Capcom released the highly successful Street Fighter II for arcades.
2005-03-02: The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) added the "E10+" rating to its ratings system. E10+ was created in order to divide E ratings for younger and older children.
2000-03-04: The Sony PlayStation 2 is released in Japan and becomes the fastest-selling video game console, selling 98,000 units in 4 hours (an average of 7 units sold per second).
1982-03-10: Midway Manufacturing wins Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc.
1973-03-19: Konami Industry Co., Ltd is incorporated as an arcade manufacturer.
1971-03-22: Ralph Baer filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a patent for a "television gaming and training apparatus".

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April 1994: The Interactive Digital Software Association, currently known as the Entertainment Software Association, was founded.
2003-04-01: The Enix Corporation legally absorbed the Square Company to form Square Enix.
2008-04-16: The first issue of CVG Presents, formerly the discontinued Computer and Video Games, was published.
2006-04-20: Nintendo released Mother 3 for the Game Boy Advance.
1982-04-23: Sinclair Research Ltd. released the Sinclair ZX Spectrum personal home computer.
1994-04-29: Commodore declared bankruptcy and discontinued their long running Commodore 64 system.

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May 1995: GameWeek Magazine is first published under its original title Video Game Advisor.
May 2003: The 3DO Company declared bankruptcy.
1994-05-03: Epic Games released Jazz Jackrabbit for MS-DOS.
2006-05-09: Microsoft released the first Xbox Live Vision game for Xbox Live Arcade, Uno.
2000-05-22: Rare released Perfect Dark for the Nintendo 64.
1990-05-30: Westinghouse Electric filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a patent for Codemasters' Game Genie.

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Selected anniversaries June

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June 1978: Taito released Space Invaders for arcades.
June 1999: Vivendi merged with Pathé.
2003-06-12: Obsidian Entertainment is founded.
1986-06-13: Activision merged with the struggling Infocom.
1996-06-23: Nintendo released Super Mario 64 as a launch title for the Nintendo 64.
2000-06-30: Nintendo ended broadcasting for the Satellaview peripheral.

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1983-07-15: The Nintendo Famicom is released in Japan.
July 1988: Nintendo released the Nintendo Power magazine.
1995-07-08: The Sega Saturn video game console is released in Europe.
1985-07-15: Courts uphold previous verdicts in the case Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.
2005-07-20: The Entertainment Software Rating Board re-rated Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Adults Only 18+ (AO) due to the sexually explicit minigame mod "Hot Coffee".
2006-07-31: The Entertainment Software Association announced that their annual E3 trade show would scale down in size.

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Selected anniversaries August

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August 1976: Fairchild Semiconductor released the Fairchild Channel F, the first programmable ROM cartridge video game system.
August 1989: Nintendo released the Game Boy handheld game console in North America.
August 1995: Square USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Square Company, Ltd., was established in Los Angeles, California.
1986-08-06: Nintendo released Metroid for the Famicom Disk System.
2003-08-14: Microsoft announced ATI as the developer of the graphics processing unit for their new console, the Xbox 360.
1996-08-31: Sega released NiGHTS into Dreams... for the Sega Saturn.

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Selected anniversaries September

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September 1983: The media reported on the dumping of thousands of Atari game cartridges.
September 1993: Alan Emrich coined the term "4X" in his preview of Master of Orion in Computer Gaming World
September 2002: Microsoft acquires Rare as a first-party developer.
1980-09-02: California Pacific Computer Co. released Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness, the first game in the Ultima series created by Richard Garriott.
1985-09-13: Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
2005-09-29: Namco merged with Japanese toymaker Bandai to form Namco Bandai Holdings.

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Selected anniversaries October

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October 2003: DigiCube, a subsidiary of Square, declared bankruptcy.
October 2004: Midway Games acquired Inevitable Entertainment and renamed it Midway Austin.
1997-10-04: Video game designer Gunpei Yokoi died in a car accident at the age of 56.
1982-10-13: Mystique released Custer's Revenge, a controversial adult video game, for the Atari 2600.
1988-10-23: Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
1988-10-29: Sega released the Sega Mega Drive video game system.

1991: Sega released Sonic the Hedgehog 8-bit for master system and game gear.
1991: They released Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit) for the Genesis and Mega Drive.

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Selected anniversaries November

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November 1981: The first issue of Computer and Video Games was published.
November 2003: Kazushige Nojima resigned from Square Enix.
2004-11-16: Valve Corporation released the highly successful Half-Life 2 for Microsoft Windows.
2004-11-09: Bungie released Halo 2 for the Xbox, earning more than $125 million on release day.
1994-11-10: William Higinbotham, creator of Tennis for Two, dies at 84
1990-11-21: Nintendo released Super Mario World and F-Zero as launch titles for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
2004-11-23: Blizzard Entertainment released World of Warcraft, a highly successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game, for Windows personal computers.

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Selected anniversaries December

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1995-12-09: Namco released Tekken for arcades.
1993-12-10: id Software released Doom, a seminal first-person shooter that advanced 3D graphics for computer games.
2005-12-12: Working Designs closed down.
1989-12-15: Universal Pictures released the The Wizard in theaters.
1987-12-18: Square released Final Fantasy, the first title in the Final Fantasy series, for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
1982-12-27: Starcade, a video game television game show, debuts on TBS in the United States.