Today in Video Gaming History

[Vt102]

I thought that this would be a nice thread to start. This way we can all stay in touch with Video Game history and celebrate in our own quirky way.

So here it goes:

TODAY IN 1987 NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, The PC-ENGINE also knows in the U.S. as TurboGrafx-16

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY TG-16!!!

[Vt102]

TODAY IN 1996 Eidos Interactive released the single-player third-person shooting game Tomb Raider.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LARA CROFT!!!

[Vt102]

TODAY IN 1998 Sierra Studios released the first-person shooting game Half-Life.

[MasterJSP]

I'm a day late but...

YESTERDAY IN 1997 Bungie Software released the real-time tactics game Myth: The Fallen Lords.

[XanderBoy]

TODAY IN 1998 Sierra Studios released the first-person shooting game Half-Life.

Wait, what?  The first, or do you mean their first?

[Symptoms0fMercy]

TODAY IN 1998 Sierra Studios released the first-person shooting game Half-Life.

Wait, what?  The first, or do you mean their first?

'First-Person Shooter' or FPS is the genre of the game, nothing more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter

[XanderBoy]

Yeah, I see that now.  I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that, other than I guess I really wasn't...