The Transformers Collection Count & Historical Events Game

[GoktimusPrime]

1975:
* Saigon falls and the Vietnam War finally ends.
* Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia. Splitters!
* Jaws is released in cinemas
* Indonesia invades East Timor, during which 5 journalists from Australia are killed in Balibo.
* Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Queen releases Bohemian Rhapsody.
* Takara's Microman enters its second year with the line, "Microman Victory"
* George Lucas forms the visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic
* Gough Whitlam is dismissed as Prime Minister!
* The Koutetsu Jeeg anime debuts with toys made by Takara. The head is clearly a forerunner for Wheeljack/Exhaust, and Takara have admitted that Koutetsu Jeeg was the inspiration for Headmasters. #titansreturn
* Taito releases the arcade game Western Gun, the first game to depict human on human combat. Midway later adapts this game for the West, becoming the first microprocessor-based video game (Taito's was based on transistor-to-transistor logic).

[GoktimusPrime]

Sentinel Prime makes 1976...
* Anyone reading this on an iPhone or iPad take note that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the Apple Computer company in this year.
* The United States celebrates the Bicentenary of the Declaration of Independence.
* The Olympics are held in Peter Cullen's birthplace, Montréal, Canada.
* Indonesia declares East Timor to be an Indonesian Province after invading it in late 1975.
* The Viking 2 lands on Utopia Planitia, Mars.
* The Muppet Show debuts.
* The Aboriginal Land Rights Act is enacted.
* George Lucas finishes writing a script and begins filming Star Wars: A New Hope
* VHS wins the video home format war

[Seraphim Prime]

Sentinel Prime makes 1976

40 more and you start predicting the future!

Which, should be about this time next year, based on when you posted your 1935 update - exactly 1 year ago!

[MayzaPrime]

40 more and you start predicting the future!

Which, should be about this time next year, based on when you posted your 1935 update - exactly 1 year ago!

That is why I haven't been playing this game

[GoktimusPrime]

As stated in post #1, if your post count exceeds the current year then you may go into B.C.E. So ya know, you could potentially play this game until your collection reaches 13,820,000,000,000,000,000

[GoktimusPrime]

Titans Return Powermaster Optimus Prime brings my collection count to 1977:
* May 25: Star Wars debuts at Mann's Chinese Theatre. In an unprecedented move, Mann's Theatre holds a second opening on August 3 where See Threepio, Artoo Detoo and Darth Vader place their footprints in the theatre's courtyard.
* Star Wars also revolutionises the toy and merchandising industry.
* The Commodore PET debuts, becoming the first personal computer made available to retail consumers. Apple Computers is incorporated and a few months later releases the Apple II series. The Atari 2600 home gaming console is released.
* Harvey Milk is elected City Supervisor by the people of San Francisco, becoming the first openly gay official to be voted in office in a large US city.
* Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is the first Arab leader to visit Israel in an attempt to negotiate a peace settlement.
* Sydney experiences the Granville Rail Disaster. That was my mum's train to work but she missed it because she was running late that morning.
* The Liberal Party under Malcolm Fraser is voted in for a second term of office.
* The first Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) animated film is released in Japanese cinemas.
* Hasbro releases a new line of GI Joe figures known as the Super Joe Adventure Team, scaled down to 22cm to make them similar in size with competing Mego figures.
* Takara releases the Microman Micro Command series.
* Simultaneous filming for both Superman and Superman II begins.

[GoktimusPrime]

1979:
* The Pol Pot regime ends
* Thatcher becomes the first UK female PM
* Voyager I photographs Jupiter's rings
* Skylab crashes in Western Australia
* Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Alien are released in cinemas. Production begins on Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
* The Sony Walkman debuts in Japan
* Yokoi Gunpei is riding on a bullet train where he watches a bored businessman amusing himself by randomly pressing buttons on a calculator. This inspires him to develop the Nintendo Game & Watch (1980) and Game Boy (1989)
* Takara releases the Rescue Team Microman series
* Merrill Hassenfeld, son of Hasbro co-founder Henry Hassenfeld and CEO of Hasbro passes away. Merrill's brother Harold did not recognise Merrill's son Stephen as the successor to Hasbro.