1980

Game & Watch: Ball.

Heli Fire

Nintendo released many video games in 1980. It's also the year Minoru Arakawa became the first president of Nintendo of America.

Character debuts

• Game & Watch series: Mr. Game & Watch
• Pac-Man (video game): Pac-Man

List of video games

• Ball, Game & Watch
• Flagman, Game & Watch
• Vermin, Game & Watch
• Fire, Game & Watch
• Judge, Game & Watch
• Heli Fire, arcade
• Radar Scope, arcade
• Sheriff, arcade
• Space Fever, arcade
• Space Launcher, arcade

Births

• January 18 - Tsuguo Mogami - Voice actor
• January 21 - Nana Mizuki - Voice actress, singer and narrator
• January 26 - Sanae Kobayashi - Voice actress of the Ice Climbers in Super Smash Bros.
• February 6 - Mamiko Noto - Actress, voice actress and singer
• February 17 - Aya Endo - Voice actress
• February 20 - Yuichi Nakamura - Voice actor
• March 11 - Yu Manabe - Japanese violinist
• April 21 - Hiro Shimono - Voice actor of Rex in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• June (unknown date) - Kosuke Yabuki - Current producer of the Mario Kart series and ARMS
• June 10 - Jessica DiCicco - Voice actress of Yellow Toad, Mario & Luigi's Mother, Pauline, and SMB commercial lady in The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• October 4 -Motoki Takagi - Voice actress of Hammer Bro. in the Mario series
• October 11 - Tomokazu Sugita - Voice actor of Chrom in Fire Emblem Awakening and Super Smash Bros.
• November 4 - Koichiro Muroya - Japanese violinist and violist
• November 26 - Deanna Mustard - Voice actress of Princess Daisy in the Mario series
• November 29 - Jason Griffith - Voice actor who voice of the title character (reprised in Super Smash Bros. Brawl) and Shadow the Hedgehog from the franchise from the same name from 2003 to 2010 and Cilan in Pokémon the Series: Black and White
• December 6 - Shizuka Ito - Voice actress of Female Byleth in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Date unknown - Shigetoshi Gohara - Sound programmer