1983: Halloween (the video game) released I mean, it is Halloween after all, so this is only fitting, right? Five years after the release of Halloween (the movie), Atari unleashed a game that bore only a modest resemblance to Michael Myers’ killing spree. Playing as an unnamed babysitter, your goal was to keep your kid…
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Today in Gaming History: 10/30/2013
October 1993: Mortal Kombat storms the arcade and has people up in arms Much like the movies Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom had made people question the appropriateness of general entertainment for the masses a decade earlier, Mortal Kombat was one of several games released in the early 1990s that paved…
Today in Gaming History: 10/29/2013
October 29, 2003: Call of Duty released Care to wish Call of Duty a happy 10th birthday? Or maybe you think it’s 9 years too old? Either way, as the world gets ready to say hello to the series 10th entry, Call of Duty: Ghosts, we’re here to mark the release of the very first…
Today in Gaming History: 10/28/2013
October 28, 1967: Happy Birthday John Romero! Earlier this month, we profiled Brenda Romero; and now we’re more than happy to do the same for her husband, John Romero! Mr. Romero’s name has been a staple in the video game industry since the 1980s when he first got his start with Origin Systems. He worked…
Today in Gaming History: 10/27/2013
1988: Phantasy Star celebrates 25th anniversary As far as RPGs go, Phantasy Star was among those that set the stage for future games of the genre. It’s also fondly rememeber by some as being among the best games for the Sega Master System. In the game, players traversed a planetary system called Algol that was…
Today in Gaming History: 10/26/2013
October 26, 2000: PlayStation 2 released in the U. S. As we get ready to ring in the joys and triumphs of the PlayStation 4, let’s not forget that 13 years ago this week, the PlayStation 2 descended upon the gaming world. When asked about the console, Kazuo Hirai, president and COO of Sony Compute…
Today in Gaming History: 10/25/2013
October 25, 1910: Happy Birthday William Higinbotham! If you don’t think it’s possible for the history of video games to date all the way back to 1910, think again. And if you don’t think that the history of video games is littered with controversy, then let’s say hello to William Higinbotham. If the name sounds…
Today in Gaming History: 10/24/2013
October 24, 2005: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth released Written in 1926 and published in 1928, The Call of Cthulhu was a short story about a Kraken-like monster by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Since then the Cthulhu mythos has seen several variants in pop culture, and it tread a rocky path…
Today in Gaming History: 10/23/2013
October 1976: Warner buys Atari from Nolan Bushnell for $28 million dollars In 1972, Nolan Bushnell, an engineer from a California-based company called Ampex, and one his fellow engineers, Ted Dabney, founded Atari. Between 1972 and 1976, the early electronic game market rose quickly, giving rise to classic entertainments such as Pong and Breakout. Bushnell…
Today in Gaming History: 10/22/2013
October 2011: SNK makes way for SNK Playmore Shin Nihon Kikaku. That’s the original name of the video game company SNK, which was established by Eikichi Kawasaki in Japan in 1978. It was created during a time when arcade games were beginning to boom and bloom. Success in Japan led the company to expand to…
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