Events
- October 4 - Gunpei Yokoi (1941-1997) dies after a double car accident.
- 3rd annual E³ (Electronic Entertainment Expo)
Notable releases
- Fallout (Interplay), (Windows), the first in the highly-popluar post-apocalyptic franchise.
- Final Fantasy VII (Squaresoft, PlayStation), the first 3D rendered game in the series, very successful in the United States, one of the biggest production budgets of its time (reportedly $45 million USD)
- Age of Empires (Windows), the first in a series of popular real-time strategy games
- GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64), one of the first successful first-person shooters on a video game console
- Total Annihilation (Cavedog, Windows), the first RTS with 3D units and terrain
- ZSNES, the first Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator
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
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