Well, this is the last edition of This Week in Video-Game History. It's been an interesting year, and I hope you enjoyed looking over all the events and releases that made gaming what it is today. You can check out all the past articles in the link above.

May 29

1992: Wolf Team, now known as Namco Tales Studio Ltd., releases Aisle Lord on the Sega Mega CD.

June 1

1956: Street Fighter character Zangief is born.

1982: Coleco announces that they're re-entering the console race with the ColecoVision.

June 3

1986: Super Mario Bros. 2, known as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in North America, goes on sale in Japan.

June 4

1998: Vigilante 8 hits the shelves.

June 5

1971: Mark Wahlberg is born. He played Max Payne in the film adaptation and might be Nathan Drake in the upcoming Uncharted movie.

1995: Earthbound goes on sale in North America.

June 6

1984: Alexey Pajitnov releases Tetris in the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre where he works, kick-starting one of the biggest battles over production rights in video-game history.

June 7

1982: Seven men made off with over a million dollars worth of Atari cartridges when they knocked over a truck just outside the manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico. They were all brought to justice a year later.

June 11

2001: The original model of the Game Boy Advance goes on sale in North America. The lack of a backlight made some games, like Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, virtually unplayable due to its dim screen.