• July 01 – 1983 – Cinematronics releases Dragon’s Lair to arcade centers. It is the first laser-disc based coin-operated arcade game. Cost per play is 50-cents. Advanced Microcomputer Systems designed the game, with animation provided by Don Bluth Animations. Cost to purchase a machine is about US$5500.
• July 03, 1999 – In Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, over six hours Billy Mitchell plays a “perfect” game of the arcade game Pac-Man, achieving the highest score that the game allows: 3,333,360. This can only be accomplished by guiding Pac-Man to eat every dot, fruit, and ghost in all 256 levels without dying.
• July 12, 1990 – Final Fantasy for NES released in US.
• July 12, 1990 – Nintendo releases the Final Fantasy video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US.
• July 14, 2004 – DOOM 3 goes gold. (Todd Hollenshead’s .plan)
• July 15 – 1985 – James Vollandt plays Joust for over 67 hours on one coin, (with four 20-minute breaks) a world record for any arcade video game. His record high score is 107,216,700.
• July 15, 2005 – The Disney Channel airs the film Life is Ruff on television in the USA. A Nintendo 64 is played without a game plugged in.
• July 17, 1970 – Ralph Baer demonstrates his television video game system to Magnavox. Despite a lack of interest from most Magnavox engineers, Bill Enders negotiates an exclusive license to manufacture and distribute the system, and sublicense Sanders Associates’ patents on the technology.
• July 21, 1982 – Atari signs a deal to make a video game based on the film E.T. the Extraterrestrial.
• July 24, 2001 – Max Payne released.
• July 31, 2006 – The Electronic Entertainment Expo show is effectively dead, due to major exhibitors and publishers pulling support.

Birthdays

• 2nd – Todd Hollenshead (id Software)

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