- August 1976: Fairchild Semiconductor released the Fairchild Channel F, the first programmable ROM cartridge video game system.
- August 1989: Nintendo released the Game Boy handheld game console in North America.
- August 1995: Square USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Square Company, Ltd., was established in Los Angeles, California.
- 1986-08-06: Nintendo released Metroid for the Famicom Disk System.
- 2003-08-14: Microsoft announced ATI as the developer of the graphics processing unit for their new console, the Xbox 360.
- 1996-08-31: Sega released NiGHTS into Dreams... for the Sega Saturn.