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What happened in history on this day: March 31?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1995 - Microsoft ships Microsoft Bob for Windows. Price is US$99. One of the helper characters is Java the dinosaur.
- 1997 - The consumer software division of Pixar Animation Studios is dissolved.
- 1998 - Blizzard releases the StarCraft game for personal computers in the US.
- 1998 - Shipments of personal computers in Japan during the past twelve months: 6.85 million.
- 1999 - Processor unit shares in the PC market: Advanced Micro Devices 46.7%, Intel 42.2%, Cyrix 11%.
- 1999 - Shipments of personal computers in Japan during the past twelve months: 7.53 million.
- 2002 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer is shown at a phone company.
- 2002 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs the Futurama TV show in the US. A video commercial is a parody of the 1984 advertisement for the Apple Macintosh computer.
- 2007 - Since April 2004, Microsoft has paid US$300 million in legal fees and $4 billion in litigation settlements.
Video Game history:
- 1990 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 2.8 million.
- 1991 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 8 million.
- 1992 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 10.5 million.
- 1993 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 7.8 million.
- 1994 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 7.5 million.
- 1995 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 5.5 million.
- 1996 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 4.1 million.
- 1997 - Unit sales of Nintendo Game Boy game systems over the past twelve months: about 7 million.
- 1997 - Unit sales of Nintendo 64 game systems in North America to date: 2.5 million.
- 2001 - Sega halts production of the Dreamcast system.
- 2001 - Unit sales of the Super Mario 64 video game to date: 9.52 million.
- 2001 - Unit sales of the GoldenEye 007 video game to date: 7.61 million.
- 2001 - Unit sales of the Mario Kart 64 video game to date: 7.16 million.
- 2001 - Unit sales of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time video game to date: 6.04 million.
- 2001 - Unit sales of the Pokémon Stadium video game to date: 4.3 million.
- 2002 - Nintendo reports it has sold 3.8 million GameCube systems to date.
- 2002 - Worldwide shipments of the Dreamcast system: about 10 million.
- 2003 - Unit shipments of video game systems worldwide to date: PlayStation 2 51.2 million, Xbox 13 million, GameCube 9.4 million, Game Boy (all types) 120 million.
- 2003 - Unit shipments of the Nintendo GameCube during the past twelve months: 5.6 million.
- 2003 - Unit shipments of the Nintendo Game Boy Advance during the past twelve months: 15.7 million.
- 2007 - To date, Sony has shipped 5.5 million PlayStation 3 systems worldwide.
- 2007 - To date, Sony has sold 117.89 million PlayStation 2 units worldwide.
- 2007 - To date, Sony has sold 100 million PlayStation units worldwide.
- 2007 - To date, Sony has sold 8.4 million PlayStation Portable units worldwide.
- 2007 - To date, Nintendo has sold 23.6 million Nintendo DS units worldwide.
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