1986 in video gaming Totally Explained

Everything about 1986 In Video Gaming totally explained

Events

Notable releases

Namco releases Sky Kid Deluxe, Hopping Mappy, Toy Pop, The Return of Ishtar, which is the sequel to Tower of Druaga, Genpei Tōma Den, and Rolling Thunder.
August 6 — Metroid by Makoto Kanoh, the first in the Metroid series.
February 21 — The Legend of Zelda (designed by Shigeru Miyamoto for the Nintendo Famicom Disk System), the first in The Legend of Zelda series, a spiritual forerunner of console role-playing games
Arkanoid (Taito, arcade), spawned many sequels and remakes
Bubble Bobble (Taito, arcade), spawned many sequels
was released in October
Dragon Quest (Enix, Famicom), usually considered the foremost console role-playing game, the first in a series that has been phenomenally successful in Japan

Hardware

Namco releases the Namco System '86 arcade system board

Atari releases the Atari 7800 home console two years after its original test market date

Sega releases the Sega Master System home console in the United States; releases the Out Run arcade game

Sharp releases the Twin Famicom home console

Nintendo releases the Famicom Disk System (an add-on for the Famicom) in Japan only

Business

New companies: Acclaim, Majesco, Ubi Soft

Activision acquires Gamestar Software

Sinclair Research Ltd. is acquired by Amstrad

Further Information

Get more info on '1986 In Video Gaming'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://1986_in_video_gaming.totallyexplained.com">1986 in video gaming Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.