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EVENTS

October 4 — Gunpei Yokoi (1941-1997) dies after a double Car accident.

3rd annual E³ (Electronic Entertainment Expo)

Notable releases

August 25 - '' GoldenEye 007 '' ( N64 )

August 31 - '' Final Fantasy VII '' ( PS )

September 30 - '' Fallout '' ( PC )

September 30 - '' Total Annihilation '' ( PC )

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October 26 - '' Age Of Empires '' ( PC )

October 31 - '' The Curse Of Monkey Island '' ( PC )

December 6 - '' Quake II '' ( PC )

Hardware

March 1 — The Nintendo 64 is released in Europe and Australia

October — Nintendo releases a smaller redesigned SNES .

Sony releases PlayStation development software for PC

Tiger Electronics releases the Game.com

Business

Activision acquires CentreSoft Ltd. and Raven Software

Electronic Arts Inc. acquires Maxis

GameTek filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed its doors in July 1999

2015, Inc. founded

4D Rulers Software , Inc. founded

September — 4HEAD Studios created

Bungie Studios West formed by Bungie Software Products Corp.

Conspiracy Entertainment Corporation founded

Crave Entertainment , Inc. formed

August — Human Head Studios , Inc. formed

Illusion Softworks , a.s. founded

April 15 — Irem Software Engineering Inc. founded

Irrational Games LLC founded

Mythic Entertainment renames itself from Interworld Productions after name dispute with another "Interworld" company

THQ renamed from Toy Head-Quarters, Inc.

Warthog PLC founded

Lawsuits

Nintendo v. Games City ; Nintendo sues Games City for selling the Game Doctor and Doctor V64 backup devices for the SNES and N64 consoles. Nintendo wins the suit.

Nintendo v. Prima Publishing ; Nintendo sues Prima over copyrights to map of the N64 video game '' GoldenEye 007 ''. Nintendo loses the suit