Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

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

** Gauntlet ( Nintendo DS ), an unreleased Nintendo DS game, based on the 1985 arcade original

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

The game was created by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov in 1985, but did not become popular until it was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989.

Nintendo finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom ( released in 1983 in Japan ) in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

Following the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, the industry began recovering, with annual sales exceeding $ 2. 3 billion by 1988, with 70 % of the market dominated by Nintendo.

All significant console manufacturers since Nintendo with its NES ( 1985 ) have monopolized the manufacture of every game made for their console, and have required all publishers to pay a royalty for every game so manufactured.

Super Mario Bros. 2, later released in Japan as, is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1985 game Super Mario Bros.

On December 31, 1985, Nintendo released an arcade version of this game, titled Vs. Wrecking Crew, adding a simultaneous two-player mode.

* Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ), 1985

However, more notable was the Japanese release of the Famicom in 1983 which was later released in the US as the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.

is a vertical platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for release on the arcade during the winter of 1984 as well as the Nintendo Famicom in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America in 1985.

It was first released on October 18, 1985 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, as one of the 18 initial launch games.

In 1985 Mindscape became a Nintendo Licensee and published hits such as Paperboy for both the Nintendo-NES and Game Boy platforms.

Namco ported Dig Dug to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985, but it was not released in North America.

Glass cockpits started to come into being with the Gulfstream G ‑ IV private jet in 1985.

In April 1985 Sakharov started a new hunger strike for his wife to travel abroad for medical treatment.

In 1985, the Winter Music Conference started in Fort Lauderdale Florida and became the premier electronic music conference for dance music disc jockeys.

In New Zealand Bank of New Zealand started issuing EFTPOS debit cards in 1985 with the first merchant terminals being installed in petrol stations.

After the genre had started to go out of fashion with mainstream audiences in 1981, the mod revival scene went underground and successfully reinvented itself through a series of clubs, bands and fanzines that breathed fresh life into the genre, culminating in another burst of creative acceptance in 1985.

Lennon's first-ever tour in the spring of 1985 was documented as part of the film Stand By Me: A Portrait Of Julian Lennon — a film profile started by Sam Peckinpah, but completed by Martin Lewis after Peckinpah's death.

After becoming player-manager on the retirement of Joe Fagan in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Division games in 1985 – 86 as Liverpool won the double, but he started the FA Cup final win over Everton.

During the Christmas of 1985, Neil Newell, an avid MUD1 player, started programming his own MUD called SHADES because MUD1 was closed down during the holidays.

In 1985 CompuNet started a project named Multi-User Galaxy Game as a Science Fiction alternative to MUD1 which ran on their system at the time.

In 1985, the Chargers started using navy blue jerseys and returned to wearing white pants.

The practice was first started by Giants players in 1985 but it did not gain much national prominence until this season.

Solar powered boats started to become known around 1985 and in 1995 the first commercial solar passenger boats appeared.

1985 was a poor season for Lauda, with eleven retirements from the fourteen races he started, he did not start the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after crashing and breaking his wrist during practice, he also later missed the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch ; John Watson replaced him for that race.

* Priority Records, a record label started in 1985 and acquired by Capitol Records

From 1985 to 1993, Cataland started to grow the company again, albeit very slowly, followed in 1993 by an investment in the company by a group of investors.

They started the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1974, but English Heritage later banned the festival, resulting in the Battle of the Beanfield in 1985.

The Aurora legend started in March 1990, when Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term " Aurora " had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U. S. budget, as an allocation of $ 455 million for " black aircraft production " in FY 1987.

Louis then started to register his bass skills on video, and accomplished about 3 instructional lesson-tapes for the Starlicks video-distribution company, from which the first release was also in 1985.

In 1985, research on a second-generation RISC architecture started at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, producing the " AMERICA architecture "; in 1986, IBM Austin started developing the RS / 6000 series, based on that architecture.

The Consumer Confidence Index was started in 1967 and is benchmarked to 1985 = 100.

According to RFC 897 and RFC 921, the transition to DNS started in 1983, but HOSTS. TXT wasn't scheduled to go away until the end of 1985 and wasn't totally phased out until the late 1990s.

Automation of the telephone system was started in 1920 and completed in 1985.

The Burroughs 5000 computer series is discussed by individuals responsible for its development and marketing from 1957 through the 1960s in a 1985 conference sponsored by AFIPS and Burroughs Corporation.

However, by 1985, several company business decisions, including an awkward new breakfast menu and loss in brand awareness due to fizzled marketing efforts, caused the company ’ s new president to urge Thomas back into a more active role with Wendy's.

* Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn-U. S. marketing title.

In Europe, the early years of personal computing ( 1981 – 1985 ) were spearheaded by the very aggressive marketing of inexpensive home computers with the theme " Why buy your child a video game and distract them from school when you can buy them a home computer that will prepare them for university?

SNK signed up to become a third-party licensee for Nintendo's Family Computer ( Famicom ) system in 1985 and opened a second branch in the United States, based in Torrance, California and called SNK Home Entertainment that would handle the North American distribution and marketing of the company's products for home consoles.

The marketing strategy was to target the premium vehicle segments in the United States that would not have otherwise fit in with Nissan's more mainstream image, and partially influenced by the Plaza Accord of 1985.

By 1985, K-Line was producing O27 locomotives, cars, and figures from former Marx and Kusan tooling, and, with minor changes, began marketing them under the K-Line brand, competing with Lionel at the low end of the market.

* Boulder Dash II ( 1985 ) – The second home format was published under several different titles ; Rockford's Riot on the MSX, Rockford's Revenge on the C64 ( with the former used with the ZX Spectrum's marketing, but the latter used on the cassette inlay, originally the game was going to be called pebbles, Reg Wilkins, Allan McInlay, Martin Brown and David Kivlin were on the design team ).

In 1984, GM began marketing captive imports — rebadging cars from Toyota, Suzuki and Isuzu under the Chevrolet nameplate — introducing the Spectrum in 1984 ( a rebadged Isuzu I-Mark ), resurrecting the Nova nameplate for a rebadged Toyota Sprinter hatchback ) ( 1984 ), and marketing the Sprint ( 1985 ), itself a rebadged Suzuki Cultus.

In 1985 Martin Sorrell, searching for a listed company through which to build a worldwide marketing services company, bought a controlling stake of just under 30 % at a cost of $ 676, 000.

Mr. Hyatt designed and marketed this highly sought after G & L in 1985 as a marketing strategy to increase sales and distribution.

George graduated from Belton High School in 1985 and from Texas Tech University in 1989 with a degree in marketing.

Andrew Cardozo Fluegelman ( November 27, 1943-c. July 6, 1985 ) was a publisher, photographer, programmer and attorney best known as the inventor of what is now known as the shareware business model for software marketing.

The company was bought over by Procter & Gamble in 1985, whom he sued in 2003 for breach of contract and fraud in federal court for apparently neglecting the marketing of his brand name in favour of the company's other hair product lines such as Pantene.

Diesel's milestone years include 1985, 1988 the hiring straight out of fashion college of ex-head designer and Creative Director Wilbert Das, 1991 ( beginning of the international marketing strategy ) and 1996 ( opening of Diesel's first flagship store on New York City's Lexington Avenue ).

In 1985 the WCGA focussed not only on the conventional CAD-CAM, Desktop Publishing, Geographic Information Systems ( GIS ), but visualizing complex management, marketing and sales data.

In 1985 he started working with Eclipse Comics as a marketing director in order to learn the comics business.

In 1985, the date was changed to the third Thursday in November to take best advantage of marketing in the following weekend.

Irwin Toy Limited was launching an important new profit center during the mid-1980s: product development, and in 1985 Irwin developed and started marketing Zaks.

Though it was approved by the FDA in 1985, the drug only began marketing in the United States in 2006.

The introduction of the Rebel 250 and 450 was a way for Honda to attract female riders, new to motorcycling, due to these bikes ' low seat heights, low center of gravity, and overall ease of handling ; however, the September 1985 issue of Motorcyclist magazine, when the Rebel was first introduced, states " by targeting the bike to a young audience, such as those who watch MTV, Honda hopes to attract newcomers and expand the motorcycle market ... Honda is not marketing this motorcycle as a woman's bike ".

He had worked at a major US-listed computer company as a marketing representative and was responsible for marketing and distribution of computer products in Hong Kong from 1985 to 1989.