This week we celebrate Lara Croft's birthday as well as the colossal idiocy of a man who just couldn't stop making his own version of Pac-Man.

February 13

2004: EA announces their exclusive rights to develop a game based off of the atrocious Catwoman movie. How hopeful they were....

February 14

Every Year: People make a big deal out of Valentine's Day. It's okay to give people chocolate other times of the year, you know, and say that you love them.

1968: Apparently this is Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft's birthday. She looks amazing for 43. Almost like no one remembered that at some point in her history she was born in '68.

2006: Mark Ecko's Getting Up is released.

February 15

2005: G4 dropped TechTV from their name, ushering the final wave of changes of this monumental merger.

February 17

1982: Midway and Larry Kruckenberg enter into a consent decree. Kruckenberg was accused of infringing on Midway's Pac-Man copyright by making copies of the game. The decree was part of the settlement, but it didn't end well. Kruckenberg wound up in court a few months later after he started manufacturing his own version of Ms. Pac-Man.

1995: Rise of Triad: Dark War is released on MS-DOS. It was a first-person shooter developed by Apogee Software which later became 3D Realms (Duke Nukem 3D).

February 18

2003: The first Splinter Cell game is released.

2004: A digitally remastered version of the Mother soundtrack is released. Face it folks, soundtracks and fan-published art books are as close as we're ever going to get to seeing another Mother game stateside.