1979

A flyer for Head On N, a clone of Sega's Head On.

This page consists of Nintendo-related events that occured in 1979.

New video game releases

• Color TV-Block Kuzushi

Arcade games

• Head On N (licensed from Sega)
• Monkey Magic
• Radar Scope
• SF-HiSplitter
• Sheriff
• Space Fever
• Space Launcher
• Bomb Bee N (licensed from Namco)

Births

• January (unknown day) - Risa Tabata - Assistant producer and coordinator at Nintendo EPD
• January 3 - Rie Tanaka - Voice actress
• February 8 - Jason Adkins - Voice actor for Ike in the Fire Emblem up to Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
• February 9 - TABOKUN - Musician
• March 14 - Dan Avidan - Co-presenter on the let's play web series Game Grumps
• May 12 - Takashi Kondo - Voice actor of Terry Bogard in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• May 21 - Shinya Kumazaki - Current director of the Kirby series
• May 30 - Rie Kugimiya - Voice actress of Celebi and Hoopa Confined in two Pokémon movies
• June 21 - Chris Pratt - Voice actor of Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• December 7 - Eric Bauza - Voice actor of Diddy Kong in The Super Mario Bros. Movie