This Day in Personal Computer and Video Game History
June 29

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Personal Computer history:

  • 1998 - Intel announces the 400 MHz Pentium II Xeon processor. It incorporates a dedicated 400 MHz bus between the processor and the secondary cache chips with up to 2 MB memory.
  • 1999 - La Salle Gallery in San Francisco sells an original Apple I computer with user manual, keyboard, and cabinet, at auction for US$18,000.
  • 2000 - Havas Interactive releases the game Diablo II for personal computers.
  • 2005 - Jerrold Kaplan, founder of Go company, files a lawsuit against Microsoft, claiming Microsoft violated antitrust laws by trying to thwart Go's attempt to enter the PC operating system market in the early 1990s.
Video Game history:

  • 1982 - Universal Studios files lawsuit against Nintendo of America claiming Donkey Kong violates copyright to King Kong.
  • 1982 - Universal Studios announces licensing agreement with Coleco Industries for Donkey Kong.
  • 1984 - Warner Bros. Pictures releases the film Cannonball Run II to theaters in the USA. A man plays Pac-Man in a car, probably the Atari 2600 version.
  • 1984 - Warner Communications begins talks with Jack Tramiel on the sale of part of Atari.
  • 1998 - Nintendo releases the Banjo-Kazooie video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
  • 1999 - GT Interactive releases the Driver video game for the PlayStation in the US.
  • 2001 - Square releases the Final Fantasy Chronicles video game for the PlayStation in the US. Included are Final Fantasy IV (Final Fantasy II in the US) and Chrono Trigger.
  • 2004 - Activision releases the Spider-Man 2 video game for the Xbox, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and N-Gage in the US.
  • 2008 - Activision/Red Octane releases the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
  • 2010 - Activision releases the Singularity video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 in the US.
  • 2010 - Konami releases the N3 II - Nighty-nine Nights video game for the Xbox 360 in the US.

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