1978

Color TV-Racing 112

This page contains Nintendo-related events that occurred in 1978.

Events

• Nintendo releases the Color TV-Game 15, better known as Pong.
• Nintendo releases Color TV-Racing 112. Shigeru Miyamoto had worked on the game's casing.
• Nintendo begins printing the Suntory playing cards for the Suntory beer company as part of their Western playing cards series.
• Nintendo begins printing the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company playing cards for the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.

Births

• January 2 - Megumi Toyoguchi - Voice actress of Dawn in Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl
• March 8 - Yuka Komatsu - Voice actress of Phosphora in Kid Icarus: Uprising
• March 15 - Patricia Summersett - Voice actress for Princess Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• March 17 - Patrick Seitz - Voice actor
• April 9 - Takashi Ohara - Voice actor for Link in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Mario Kart 8 and current voice actor for Fox McCloud in the Star Fox series
• May 4 - Daisuke Ono - Voice actor
• May 13 - Junji Majima - Voice actor for The Black Knight in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
• June 18 - Tara Platt - Voice actress of Edelgard in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Miriel and Flavia in Fire Emblem Awakening
• July 8 - Rachael Lillis - Voice actress for Misty, Jessie and Jigglypuff in the Pokémon anime (the latter reprised in Super Smash Bros.)
• September 9 - Masato Honma - Musician
• November 18 - Justin Berti - Voice actor
• November 26 - Jun Fukuyama - Voice actor of Roy in the Fire Emblem series and Joker in Persona 5
• December 8 - Alésia Glidewell - Voice actress of Zero Suit Samus in the Super Smash Bros. series
• December 15 - Kosuke Takaguchi - Voice actor of Falco Lombardi and Wolf O'Donnell in the Star Fox series since Star Fox 64 3D
• December 29 - Alecia Hillis - Voice actress and actress for Palutena in Kid Icarus: Uprising

Arcade games released

• Block Fever
• Computer Othello
• Fancy Ball
• Test Driver