This week in Video-Game History is a retro extravaganza: Konami announces their plans to develop arcade cabinets, Magnavox is forced to pull a game off the market, and the very first gaming web comic appears.

March 13

1995: The Plastic Valley Report -- later called the Polymer City Chronicles -- brought a humorous political commentary style to the game industry and was the first web comic on the subject. You can find the archives here but the page hasn't been updated since 2007.

2003: Run Like Hell is announced for the Xbox. To this day I cringe at the thought that Breaking Benjamin did the soundtrack to this game.

March 14

2001: Unreal Tournament is released on the Dreamcast.

2002: The original Xbox launches in Europe, three months after the U.S. release.

March 15

2002: The first Resident Evil movie opens across the U.S. I had such high hopes for this franchise. All of them were crushed by the terrible Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

2006: Sony announces they will delay the release of the PS3 to September 2006, citing copyright protection complications -- they hadn't actually created it yet....

March 16

1996:  Hexen: Beyond Heretic is released. As the full title suggests, it's a follow-up to PC first-person shooter Heretic and the second game in the Serpent Riders series.

2006: The game industry reaches an agreement with the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) to restrict marketing of mature content to minors. All online marketplaces implemented procedures to keep M-rated or Rating Pending material out of the hands of anyone under the age of 17.

March 17

Every year: People get blind drunk for a holiday they don't really know anything about.

1994: Castlevania: Bloodlines is released on the Sega Genesis. It was the first game in the series to feature non-Belmont characters and ties directly into the story of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin on the DS.

2004: EA's Montreal studio opens.

March 18

1982:  Magnavox is ordered to take its K.C. Munchkin game off the market. Federal judge George Leighton ruled that it was too similar Pac-Man.

1994: Sonic Drift is released in Japan. It was a Sonic the Hedgehog-themed kart racer for the Master System and Game Gear that never saw a Western release.

March 19

1973: Konami Co. becomes Konami Industry Co. Ltd and announces that they are starting development on arcade games.