1987

Commercially, Patriot Games debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list for the week of August 2, 1987.

1992

We then get Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994), starring Harrison Ford and directed by Phillip Noyce.

In 1979

In 1979, Clancy began 'Patriot Games,' in which Jack Ryan invented Jack Ryan's hero, CIA agent Jack Ryan.

2003

Conceived by the Philadelphia CVB in 2003, the Patriot Games is an Army-Navy tradition pitting Cadets against Midshipmen in five physical and mental team challenges.

CIA analyst ()

That they became, in one respect, increasingly far-fetched – the machinations necessary to elevate Ryan from CIA analyst (Patriot Games, 1987), to Deputy Director of the agency (Clear and Present Danger, 1989), then National Security Advisor, Vice President (Debt of Honor, 1994) and finally, outrageously, President of the United States (Executive Orders, 1996), left Clancy's authorial strings ever more visible – almost didn't matter: they were efficient, dense but incredibly pacey thrillers, turning on plots – Soviet defections, the war on drugs in South America, conflict between Russia and China – with more than a passing nod to real world tensions (and with an eerie prescience in the case of Debt of Honor), and narratives that were never weighed down by the technobabble Clancy loved to lace Tom Clancy's thrillers with.

2008

The game came out on June 29, 2008.

1983

The game was developed and released by Parker Brothers in 1983.

1997

The game was released in the United States in Oct, 1997.

2011

The game was released on November 1, 2011 in the United States, published by Activision.

the second of Tom Clancy's 'Jack Ryan' movies after The Hunt for Red October () 1990

Patriot Games (1992) was the second of Tom Clancy's 'Jack Ryan' movies after The Hunt for Red October (1990).

in 2006

Patriot Games' premiered in 2006, and soon Gronk will join Tom in 'Family Guy' glory.

2001

The game was released in North America on December 2, 2001.

1990

Patriot Games is a good 1990's action movie.

in 1981

Patriot Games - Begins in 1981 and continues through summer 1982 based on a reference to Ryan's age, which is 31 at the beginning of the novel.

Clear and Present Danger () $215 million

Patriot Games ($178 million) and 1994’s Clear and Present Danger ($215 million), and Ben Affleck 2002

1991

The game was released in North America on August 23, 1991.

in 1994

Patriot Games was Marlon Brando's first, followed by Clear And Present Danger in 1994.

By 1977

By 1977, Gray had made a 40 minute short “on credit cards,” called THE PATRIOT GAME, a story about brothers in which one peace-loving brother is pressured to take John Gray's sibling’s place in the IRA after John Gray's brother is killed.

in 1965

The Patriot Game was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1965 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising.

in 2007

The Patriot first debuted in 2007, at the same time as the still-in-production Compass.