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This Week In Gaming History

Another glimpse into the SG.biz archives to see the way we lived before the advent of electronic entertainment, when climbing trees and healthy outdoor activities were the order of the day, thank you.

• 1987 - Game release - Super Tree Climber Plus (Amstrad)
• 1995 - Gremlin Interactive board decides making good games is 'too much trouble'
• 1997 - Natalie Imbruglia's Pacific Yacht Race (BMG Interactive)
• 1999 - Infogrames expelled from Countryside Alliance
• 2001 - Bedeviller's Nook: Angle Invasion wins first Edge Imaginary Award
• 2004 - Entire development team behind Summoner's Cauldron: The Trumpeting (3DO) found dead in Sunnydale, CA.
• 2006 - Lawsuit begins over the illegal representation of ponds and streams in Trout Hunter III: Evening Rise (Dreamcast)

This Week In Gaming History

1983 - Release: Violent Congress: Marine Glory [Leprotech]
1994 - Sony PlayStation moves out of it's parents place.  Mrs PlayStation 'distraught'
1996 - Hello magazine pays record amount for Peter Molyneaux's diaries
2002 - Release: Dance Dance Silhouette [Ramfunktious]
2007 - Revlon introduces 'Night Elf Purple' lipstick

This Week In Gaming History

A new feature for Fridays.  A round-up of the game releases, news headlines and significant events from this week in games through history...

• 1936 - Andrew Ryan refuses to be constrained by the small
• 1984 - Release: Chuck Norris's Moon Slugger [Arcade]
• 1995 - Azrael's Tear [Mindscape] becomes last game in the UK to be convicted of witchcraft
• 1998 - Judge Dredd [Gremlin] light gun game installed in Kebabarama, Sheffield
• 2002 - ELSPA HQ has new carpet fitted

More next week fact fans.