ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
January 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1178 releases
42 Years AgoVoyager I: Sabotage of the Robot Ship
PC-88Japan
Voyager is a first-person action game that challenges the player to explore the levels of an alien spacecraft's maze. The environments consist of corridors and rooms done with 3D vector graphics. The protagonist has to evade robots programmed to blast any intruders.
42 Years AgoTransylvania
PC-88PC-98Japan
A game with a text interface and optional graphics. Players must locate the missing Princess Sabrina while surviving the hostile land.
42 Years AgoThe Dark Crystal
PC-88PC-98Japan
Based on the movie of the same name you play the character of Jen, the last of the Gelflings. Your objective is to find the Dark Crystal and its missing shard before the Great Conjunction, the alignment of the world's three suns, takes place.
42 Years AgoThe Blade of Blackpoole
PC-88PC-98Japan
A text adeventure written by Tim Wilson and published by Sirius Software for various 8-bit platforms.
42 Years Ago
42 Years AgoKosmik Pirate
ZX SpectrumWorldwide
Are you ruthless enough to sustain your position as captain, or are you just another weak stomached space traveller? KOSMIK PIRATE represents excitement for all the family (including addicted invaders players) and provides unending enjoyment.
42 Years AgoMr. Do's Wild Ride
ArcadeJapan
Mr. Do!'s scenario is a roller coaster, and the object is to reach the top. As the cars (and eventually other objects) speed around the track, you must escape by using a super speed button, or by climbing up small ladders scattered about the track.
42 Years AgoBannercatch
PCWorldwide
Max, the Guardian of the Galactic Tollway, challenges you and your partner to play BANNERCATCH—a five-level team game of strategy and skill. You and your partner each control two humanoid robots. Max controls his four highly skilled robots.
41 Years AgoPoster Paster
C64Worldwide
Poster Paster is an arcade game by Taskset from 1984. In the role of a laborious paster Bill Stickers the player tries in 12 images to paste poster advertisement to billboards under more and more difficult conditions.
41 Years AgoBalance of Power
DOSNorth America
Take on the role of the US President or the Russian General Secretary and make your country the most powerful over your eight years in office. Use diplomacy, make treaties, use direct military force or use covert CIA/KGB agents. Just remember there's a big red button.
41 Years AgoSoftporn II
DOSNorth America
In the shadowy dives of Hoboken, New York, a lust-crazed man seals a final tryst with an old flame on the eve of her permanent relocation to far Denmark with her husband. This is a game that simulates a sexual exchange between a man (the player) and a simulated woman.
41 Years AgoRock'n Wrestle
ZX SpectrumC64Amstrad CPCWorldwide
Rock'n Wrestle is a professional wrestling video game released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64 8-bit home computers, and as Bop'N Wrestle in 1986 for DOS by Mindscape. It can be played with one or two players.
41 Years AgoObsidian
Amstrad CPCEurope
Arcade exploration game released on the Amstrad CPC computer family.
41 Years AgoTeacher Busters
C64Europe
This is a German C64 game. Your mission is to hunt and kill teachers. While being banned in Germany it was still very popular among German teens in the 80s.
41 Years AgoSwashbuckler
PC-88Japan
Swashbuckler is an early fighting game for the Apple II family of computers, created by Paul Stephenson and published by Datamost in 1982. The player controls a sword-wielding swashbuckler who must fight and dispatch various attackers.
41 Years AgoAli Baba and the Forty Thieves
PC-88Japan
Dungeon crawler RPG in which you set out to save the Sultan's daughter.
40 Years AgoPacific
Amstrad CPCWorldwide
As an intrepid fortune seeker, players enter the darkness of the Pacific seeking fortune and fame seeking and the lost city of Atlantis. Met by dangerous sea creatures, player must fend them off while searching through the darkness.
40 Years AgoAnnals of Rome
PCWorldwide
Annals of Rome begins in 273BC and sets you as a Roman senator, with the ultimate aim of colonizing as much of the known world as possible, and retaining that power against Carthaginians, Vandals, Parthians, Persians and all the other world forces.
40 Years AgoWall Street Raider
PCWorldwide
"An 'imaginative, stimulating' business simulation." -- Front page article in Investors Business Daily "Wall Street Raider" (For Windows) is one of the oldest games on the Internet, published as a DOS version well before the World Wide Web…
40 Years AgoRock'n Wrestle
DOSWorldwide
Rock'n Wrestle is a professional wrestling video game released in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64 8-bit home computers, and as Bop'N Wrestle in 1986 for DOS by Mindscape. It can be played with one or two players.
40 Years AgoCrosscountry Canada
Apple IINorth America
Players take the role of a cargo trucker who delivers goods between various cities in Canada. Crosscountry Canada has frequently been called "the Canadian Oregon Trail" in terms of its importance as a geography-based educational game.
40 Years AgoRiglas
PC-88PC-98Sharp X1Japan
The continent of Riglas is inhabited by two races: the Mirians and the Galtians. For years they have fought each other for dominance. Caught in the struggle between the two is the nearly forgotten Osborn race, discriminated and enslaved.
40 Years AgoErika
FM-7Japan
Near future. The unknown black shadow enemy is planning to conquer the Earth. Erika is a special agent on a mission to investigate enemy's new weapon Spectron.
40 Years AgoWizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
PortSharp X1Japan
The so-called "New & Improved Version" was a later, updated release of the original Apple II and PC Booter release from the early 80's. Unlike to original release, featured a larger graphic window and slightly more colors, depending on the computer.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.