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Atari releases its first arcade game, Allan Alcorn's Pong.
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Atari releases Gran Trak 10, the first car racing video game, to video arcades.
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Atari opens the first Pizza Time Theater. Pizza Time Theater is a combination video arcade/pizzeria conceived by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. In June, Bushnell purchases the rights to Pizza Time Theater back from Atari for $500,000.
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Taito realeases Space Invaders in Japan. Space invaders marked the beginning of the golden age of arcade video games.
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Midway gives Space Invaders a wide release in North America.
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Namco relesases Pac-Man. It becomes the highest-grossing game of all time.It has the fist gaming mascot character, which established the maze chase genre and opened gaming to the female audiences.
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Data East releases Technōs Japan's Karate Champ, laying the foundations for the one-one-one fighting game genre.
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Nintendo releases Zelda II: The Adventure of Link for the Famicom Disk System in Japan only. The game would go unreleased in America for nearly two years afterwards.
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Nintendo of America releases Super Mario Land on the Game Boy, introducing Princess Daisy to the Mario series.
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Nintendo releases the Game Boy handheld console, the first popular handheld with cartridges.
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Nintendo v. Color Dreams lawsuit: Nintendo sues Color Dreams over unlicensed production of Nintendo video games.( On the website it only gave the year)
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NEC releases the TurboExpress handheld console.
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North America is introduced to the Super Nintendo gaming console.
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Nintendo had appointed this year "1994" as The Year of The Cartridge.
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The playstation was released to North America and competed the NIntendo.
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Nintendo's Nintendo 64 was released in North America.
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Came to North America during this time.
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Nintendo has started working on what will eventually be the GameCube, under the codename "Project Dolphin"
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Sony's PlayStation 2 (PS2) launches in Japan with 10 launch titles.
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Xbox was realeased in North America.
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Gamecube was released in North America.
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Nintendo launches its DS handheld in the United States.
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Nintendo announces WiiWare, a service similar to Xbox Live Arcade, that will allow developers to release original downloadable games for the Wii. Previously the only downloadable games available on the Wii have been limited to its Virtual Console program.
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First PAX East Coast at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, MA
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Nintendo's newest handheld is released.
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PAX East 2013 held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
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Disney Infinity publisher Disney Interactive was merged with Disney Consumer Products, the developer of Playmation to form a new division called "Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media
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