Magnavox Odyssey Sept 1972 released in north america Atari Pong coin-op released on Nov 29, 1972 Sometime in 1973-74 I remember playing Atari Pong at Midtown Mall speed race released in japan november 1974 (this game is re-released by midway as wheels in north america) april 1st, 1975 Canada switches to metric system epoch releases TV Tennis in japan (predates atari pong for home) sept 12th, 1975 november 1975 atari pong released for the home market September 9, 1976, VHS VCRs first appear Telstar Combat released sometime in 1977 May 25, 1977 Star Wars first released in the United States June 24, 1977 Star Wars first released in Canada August 3, 1977 TRS-80 computer released September 11, 1977 Atari VCS released in North America Oct 1977 Commodore PET released July 1978 Space Invaders released in North America Aug 23, 1979 log mentions desire for Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 computer Aug 31, 1979 went to Ontario Science Centre December 7, 1979 Star Trek the Motion Picture released in the United States Jan 2, 1980 First mention of Oshawa Centre Games Room March 1, 1980 scored 105 points in Lunar Lander scored 1,340 on Space Invaders (at McLaughlin Square) March 7, 1980 Star Hawk (McLaughlin Square) April 10th, 1980 scored 1,620 on Space Invaders May 21st, 1980 Empire Strikes Back released in United States July 13, 1980 saw Empire strikes Back movie Sept 7th, 1980 McEnroe beats Borg at US Open final Oct 10, 1980 saw the animated Hobbit (Bankin-Rass 1977) Dec. 31st, 1980 Wizard of Wor released Feb. 1981 guess program for commodore pet, only hand written version exists Feb. 1981 Gorf released in arcades March 10, 1981 Commodore PET 1416 in library at McLaughlin May 1981 vic-20 released in North America July 1981 saw stargate at Calgary Stampede? Wikipedia says it was released late oct 1981 sometime in 1981 or later: played Gorf, Piranha at Mothers Pizza on Simcoe Street Feb 28, 1982 Rubik's Cube contest in London Ontario played Warp Warp, Gorf in arcades there April 19, 1982 Namco releases Dig Dug August 1982 Commodore 64 becomes available to buy Sept 18, 1982 rubik's cube contest in buffalo ny November 1982, Atari 5200 is released Christmas 1982 vic-20 as christmas present Feb 10, 1983 msc-351 project completed Feb 15, 1983 high score tracking begins for vic-20 and arcade dig dug March 10, 1984 Waterloo Basic Listing Printout for Commodore PET rubik's cube program (PETSCII is printed) April 5-6, 1984 Computer Fair with rubik's cube program on Commodore PET Jan 1985 Commodore discontinues vic-20 March 28th, 1985 Computer Fair with rubik's cube program on Commodore 64 June 28th to 30th 1985 twin galaxies contest at oshawa centre arcade got scores on: wizard of wor 80,300 punchout 8,160,450 dig dug 1.4 million October 18, 1985 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is released in North America Mon Nov 11th, 1985 scored 770,000 on joust (new chip) at whitby mall arcade Dec 7th 1985 commodore c64 rubik's cube program is mentioned in journal this is not compiled via blitz July 5, 1986 mappy scores reach 210,290 (oshawa centre arcade) Aug 2nd, 1987 Rubik's Cube vhs recording on c64 Dec 21st, 1987 California Raisins Christmas special (Will Vinton died Oct 4, 2018) somewhere around 1987-88 I buy Lattice C compiler from Electronics 2001 5529 Yonge Street (now a Korean Restaurant) Feb 1st, 1989 Last revision of Rubik's Cube program on c64 printout survived, no PETSCII, one page missing August 14, 1989 North American release of the Sega Genesis Neo Geo MVS (for coin-op) released in April 26, 1990 in North America xenix 2.2.3 running on a 286 dec 1989 3do released in north america October 4, 1993 internet ads start to appear in BYTE magazine nov 1993 first funspot visit 1999 (weir's beach new hampshire) funspot visit 2000 played dig dug monopoly pinball sept 2001 installed red hat linux 8.0 feb 15, 2003 bought stopwatch at Radio Shack on aug 18th, 2003 for timing rubik's cube solving Ontario Science Centre World Rubik's Cube Contest Aug 23 - 24, 2003 completed xrubik version 1.0 nov. 5th, 2005 for linux july 22nd, 2008 Funland arcade closes for good on yonge street installed vector linux Mar 3 2010 playstation vita handheld released in North America on Feb 22th, 2012 dec 1st, 2014 uploaded digitized recording of commodore 64 vhs tape (originally recorded on aug 2nd, 1987) to archive.org Feb 2015, RadioShack files for bankruptcy c64 rubik's cube program rediscovered Jul 20, 2017 (posted on internet march 14th, 2017) computer fair program for commodore pet 8032 is revived on Sept 25, 2018 arcades in oshawa (all defunct?) -------------------------------- spanky's, oshawa centre games room, pleasure palace, leisure arcade unknown em games ---------------- wild kingdom