** Hamilcar Barca, Carthaginian general who has assumed command of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily during the last years of the First Punic War with Rome, helped Carthage win the Mercenary War and brought extensive territory in the Iberian Peninsula under Carthaginian control ( b. c. 270 BC )

** Resolution 44 / 34: The UN Mercenary Convention

** The Mercenary Lover

** Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis, a 1992 sequel to the 1985 Novagen game

** Mercenary: The Second City ( add-on dataset ) ( 1986 ) ( Atari 800 / XL / XE, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Atari ST )

** Note: Starting in 1990 the Deluxe Edition boxes contained the Car Wars Compendium: Second Edition rulebook rather than the original Deluxe Edition rulebook.

** A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages

** Compendium of Musick, London 1653

** Compendium ( 1280 pages, collects The Darkness # 1-40, Tales of the Darkness # 1-4 and Darkness: Wanted Dead, December 2006, ISBN 1-58240-643-X, November 2007, ISBN 1-58240-801-7 )

** Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 )

** ( Commentary on Dignaga's ' Compendium of Valid Cognition ')

** Cugel's Compendium of Indispensable Advantages ( et al.

** Webb's Compendium ; Ryan's Biographia Hibernica, ii.

** Tomb Raider Compendium Edition includes this story ( miscredited )

** Aliens ( film ), a 1986 sequel by James Cameron

** Gauntlet II, a 1986 arcade sequel.

** National Finalist in 1986

** Republic Airlines ( 1979-1986 ), a defunct airline purchased by Northwest Airlines that ceased operating in 1986

** 1986: Skeleton Crew

** Name: President Kekkonen's mourning stamp, issued: 30. 09. 1986, designed by Eeva Oivo

** Oracle, AZ, Synergetic Press, 1986, ISBN 0-907791-11-5, 86 pp.

** Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and musician ( d. 1986 )

** Hank Greenberg, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

** L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology ( d. 1986 )

** Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano ( d. 1986 )

** Gardner Fox, American writer ( d. 1986 )

** Jimmy Lyons, American musician ( d. 1986 )

** Dick Scobee, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

** Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish actress ( d. 1986 )

** Horace Heidt, American bandleader ( died 1986 )

** Willem Ruis, Dutch game show host ( d. 1986 )

** Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

** Amber Hagerman, American murder victim and namesake for the AMBER alert system ( b. 1986 )

** Frances Griffiths, Cottingley Fairies girl ( d. 1986 )

** Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1986 )

** Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist ( d. 1986 )

** Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat ( d. 1986 )

** Gia Carangi, American model ( d. 1986 )

** Forrest Tucker, American actor ( F Troop ) ( d. 1986 )

** The Atari 7800 is backward compatible with almost all Atari 2600 games.

** Gauntlet ( NES video game ), the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System game based on the original 1985 Atari game

** Gauntlet: The Third Encounter, a 1990 game for the Atari Lynx.

** The Atari 2600 game system is released.

** Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.

** Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.

** Circus Atari, a spinoff of the above game for the Atari 2600 console

** Atari DOS

** Atari TOS

** Atari TIA, combined sound and graphics chip, used in Atari 2600 and Atari 7800.

** Atari POKEY, used in Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 5200, and certain Atari 7800 cartridges.

** Atari AMY, intended for the 65XEM, but never released.

** Yamaha YM2149, used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum computers ( same as General Instrument AY-3-8910 )

** Yamaha Y3439-F, used in the Atari Falcon, Atari STBook

** Atari 2600 homebrew

** RGB output can feed either RGB monitor or TV, old Atari SM124 monitor or a VGA monitor

** Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV / WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus ( AAC +), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( APE ), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC / Musepack / Mpeg +, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD ( Amiga Module ), XM, NSF ( NES Sound Format ), SPC ( SNES ), GYM ( Genesis ), SID ( Commodore 64 ), Adlib, YM ( Atari ST ), ADPCM ( Nintendo GameCube ), and CDDA.