Portal:Video games/Selected anniversaries/October

• 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.