National Video Games Day Date When Celebrated : Video Games Day - always on July 8 National Video Games Day - always on September 12 Video Games Day celebrates popular video games that stormed onto the market, and changed the way your kids play games. From Atari to Nintendo to Xbox, video games provide all too many hours of playing time on your television set. In grandma and grandpa's day, they had stick horses for toys and playtime. Todays kids (big kids and little kids) have an enormous array of video games to play. Before you get tired of one game, another one hits the market. Our extensive research into this special day discovered two separately distinct dates. Also, both dates for this special day refer to it as Video Games Day and National Video Games Day. Based upon our research results, we give the edge to September 12th as National Video Games Day. Lucky gamer that you are, you get to celebrate two video games days. Celebrate National Video Games Day by playing video games. If you are off from school (or if you are a big kid off from work), make this a marathon day for video games. Better still, invite a few friends and hold a competition. Just make certain that you have enough controllers. Thought for the Day: You never really appreciate something until it's gone Toilet paper is a good example. The Origin of Video Games Day: Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this day. We found no information to help us to sort out why there are two different dates for this event. We did not find any documentation confirming this to be a "National" day. We found no congressional records or presidential proclamation.

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