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What happened in history on this day: November 24?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1995 - Philippe Kahn resigns as chairman of Borland International.
- 1998 - America Online announces an agreement to acquire Netscape Communications for US$4.2 billion in stock.
Video Game history:
- 1982 - Todd Rogers scores a world record 653,990 on the Gorf arcade game.
- 1992 - Sega releases the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 video game for the Genesis and Game Gear game systems. Sega calls the day "Sonic 2sday".
- 1995 - At the Shoshinkai show in Chiba, Japan, Nintendo displays the 64-bit cartridge-based Nintendo 64 video game system. Target ship date is April 21, for 25,000 yen (US$250). Games demonstrated are Super Mario 64 and Kirby's Air Ride. Nintendo gives details of the 64DD add-on for the Nintendo 64, with a 64 MB hard drive.
- 1995 - Hudson releases the Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire video game for the PC Engine in Japan. The game is only released at the Shoshinkai game show.
- 1998 - Eidos releases the Tomb Raider III video game for the PlayStation in the US.
- 2002 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A character says various words, trying to remember a code word. One of the words he says is "Nintendo".
- 2010 - Sony Computer Entertainment releases the Gran Turismo 5 video game for the PlayStation 3 in the US.
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