• November 01, 1998 – Half-Life is released.
• November 03, 2004 – Nintendo begins taking orders for the Nintendo DS on Internet shopping sites. After receiving two million orders during the day, most sites are closed to taking any further orders.
• November 05, 2002 – Asheron’s Call 2 goes gold.
• November 07, 1982 – United Features Syndicate sues Creative Computing for copyright infringement, asking Creative Computing to stop selling the computer game Snoopy and destroy existing video cartridges.
• November 08, 2004 – EverQuest II ships.
• November 09, 1982 – Mattel Electronics announces it would offer converter hardware allowing the Intellivision to play Atari 2600 cartridges.
• November 09, 2000 – Half-Life: Counter-Strike (Retail) released.
• November 09, 2006 – World of Warcraft subscriber base reaches 7.5 million players.
• November 10, 1999 – Warner Bros. releases the film Pokémon: The First Movie to theaters. (The Pokémon characters originated with a video game in Japan. Total American theater ticket sales: US$86 million.)
• November 11, 2005 – France issues ten postage stamps depicting video game characters. On 20-cent stamps: Link, Pac-Man, Prince of Persia, Spyro, and Donkey Kong. On 33-cent stamps: Mario, Adibou, Rayman, Lara Croft, and The Sims.
• November 12, 2003 – Nokia confirms that hackers have cracked anticopying protections in games designed for the N-Gage video game system.
• November 13, 1982 – Scott Safran of Pennsylvania scores a world record 41,336,440 in Asteroids. (The record continues to hold through 2005.)
• November 14, 2001 – Return to Castle Wolfenstein goes gold. (Todd Hollenshead’s .plan)
• November 15, 1982 – Atari signs an agreement with Nintendo for the world-wide license of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior video games for Atari home computers.
• November 15, 1999 – Unreal Tournament goes gold.
• November 15, 2001 – At 12:01 AM in New York’s Time Square, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates signs and sells the first Xbox, to Edward Glucksman.
• November 19, 1981 – President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines bans video games in the country, because of parent and teacher complaints regarding youth morality.
• November 20, 1995 – Donkey Kong 2 for SNES released.
• November 21, 1989 – Atari introduces the Lynx hand-held video game system. It features a 4.0 MHz 65C02 processor, 16-bit graphics processor, 6 sound channels, 3.5-inch color LCD screen, 16 colors out of 4096 palette. Weight is under one pound. Price is US$150-200, with the Galifornia Games video game cartridge. (This is the first color hand-held video game system in the US.)
• November 21, 1999 – Quake III Arena goes gold.
• November 22, 2005 – Asheron’s Call 2 shut down.
• November 22, 2005 – Microsoft launches the Xbox 360 video game system in North America.
• November 23, 1991 – Square releases the Final Fantasy II video game for the Super NES in the US. This is the same game as Final Fantasy IV in Japan.
• November 23, 2004 – World of Warcraft released.
• November 24, 1992 – Sega releases the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 game for the Genesis and Game Gear game systems. Sega calls the day “Sonic 2sday”.
• November 25, 1998 – Sega cans the Sega Channel due to low subscriber base.
• November 29, 1972 – Atari ships the Pong stand-alone coin-operated video game. The Pong game debuts in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.

Birthdays

• 25th – Levelord (Ritual Entertainment)

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