This Day in Personal Computer and Video Game History
March 15

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Personal Computer history:

  • 1983 - IBM Japan announces the IBM 5550 Multistation in Japan. It features an 8 MHz Intel 8086 microprocessor, 256 kB RAM (expandable to 512 kB), up to three 640 kB capacity floppy drives, display with 1024x768 graphics monochrome or 360x512 in four colors, for US$4200-10000 with screen, printer, and keyboard.
  • 1983 - A Taipei, Taiwan, high court upholds Apple Computer's charges against Sunrise Computer Service and Golden Formosa Microcomputer of making and selling pirated copies of patented Apple software products.
  • 1989 - Antic Software begins the Amiga Plus magazine.
Video Game history:

  • 1997 - In Seattle, Washington, the GameWorks video arcade opens. Partners of the GameWorks company are DreamWorks, Universal Studios, and Sega Enterprises of Japan. The main attraction is the Vertical Reality interactive game designed by Steven Spielberg. Up to twelve players are seated around columns of three video screens; as cyborgs are shot, the player is raised, with the object being to reach the top. Cost to play is US$4.
  • 2001 - Sony CEA and Connectix end their legal fight over PlayStation 2 emulation software by agreeing to jointly develop the software. Sony will acquire all assets of Connectix related to the Virtual Game Station software.
  • 2002 - Screen Gems releases the film Resident Evil to theaters in the US. The film is based on the video game of the same title.
  • 2005 - Electronic Arts releases the Medal of Honor: Dogs of War video game for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 in the US.
  • 2006 - Sony announces the PlayStation 3 will not go on sale in the spring, but will be released after November.
  • 2011 - Konami releases the Hard Corps: Uprising video game for the PlayStation 3 in the US.
  • 2011 - Capcom releases the Okamiden video game for the Nintendo DS in the US.

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