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Events

The July/August 1988 issue of Nintendo Power was the magazine's first.

• July - Nintendo releases the Nintendo Power magazine.

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Notable releases

• Electronic Arts releases John Madden Football for the Apple II, starting its highly successful line of American football games. It is also the first major football game to feature full 11-man teams.
• Pool of Radiance (SSI), the first of the "Gold Box" games, the first computer RPG based on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
• Altered Beast (Sega, arcade), later ported to the Genesis where it was packaged with the console in North America and Europe
• Sega releases Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System, the first in the company's most successful series of RPGs.

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Hardware

• October 29 - Sega Megadrive released in Japan

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Business

• New companies: KOEI Co., Ltd., Visual Concepts, Stormfront Studios
• Defunct companies: Coleco Industries Inc.
• Activision renamed to Mediagenic
• Nintendo vs. Camerica Ltd. lawsuit: Nintendo sues Camerica over the clone production of an Advantage joystick controller for the NES console