In the article associated with the pic above, it was mentioned that a company named Laser Diode Products planned on commercializing a green laser pointer in 1987. I found a paper written by a guy who worked there at the time and contacted him about it. He said no commercial pointer was made by them in the late-'80s.
Karl Rothweiler (known to many here) has the oldest green laser pointer I've seen. His is quasi-CW and from 1998. I know LaserMax was offering green laser collimators for telescopes around 1995, and they were very, very expensive compared to the red collimators they sold then. Karl paid lots for his. Anyway, the hunt is still on for the first commercial green laser pointer.