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Out of the 365 days on the calendar, one of them has to be the most important day in video gaming history. I submit that today, Sept. 9, just might be that day.
Not only did the original Sony Playstation launch in the U.S. on this day in 1995, but the Sega Dreamcast chose the same day four years later -- 9/9/99 -- to makes its American debut. Even freakier, Nintendo apparently initially planned to have the Super Nintendo hit American stores on this day in 1991*, but instead shipped them out to many stores a few weeks earlier, for some history-destroying reason.
Need more evidence of today's historical importance to gamers? If Sept. 9, 1989 never existed, we would never have seen the first episode of Captain N: The Game Master, which premiered on NBC that fateful Saturday morning. Twenty years later, Sept. 9, 2009 saw the first appearance of the Beatles and their music in a video game via The Beatles: Rock Band.
If you can think of a single day more packed with gaming history, I'd like to hear it. Seriously, I would. Whaddya got, gaming historians?
* - According to Steven Kent's excellent book The Ultimate History of Video Games
Tags: beatles rock band, captain n, dreamcast, history, playstation, sega, september, sony, super nintendo
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