ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
January 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1178 releases
39 Years AgoHabitat
C64Worldwide
The first graphical character-based interactive environment, supported up to 64 simultaneous players.
39 Years AgoFinal Zone Wolf
MSXWorldwide
Final Zone is an overhead run-'n-gun action game like Capcom's Commando, but it's not just that. The program contains an extensive story with lots and lots of dialog between each map.
39 Years AgoHabitat
C64Worldwide
Habitat is a pioneering massive multiplayer online game (MMO) developed by Lucasfilm Games that laid the foundation for modern MMORPGs.
39 Years AgoNO: Never Outside
C64Europe
A graphical text adventure for the C64 based loosely on the sci-fi series 'V'.
39 Years Ago3DC
Amstrad CPCZX SpectrumWorldwide
3DC is an isometric action adventure where the player is stranded on the bottom of the ocean with the objective of finding parts of a submarine, then constructing it in order to escape.
39 Years AgoGateway to Hell
ZX SpectrumWorldwide
A isometric game where you must find the exit in a labyrinth castle.
39 Years AgoDroids: The White Witch
MSXEurope
Almost no information on this game can be found online, but this is a Star Wars game for the MSX featuring top-down arcade shooting gameplay. It is based off of the Droids TV show from the 1980's, the player controls the ship featured in the show.
39 Years AgoZoo
MSX2Worldwide
Zoo is a computer game developed by Radarsoft and published by Philips. The game was programmed by Cees Kramer and was released in 1987 for the MSX 2 computer. The game is a point and click adventure.
39 Years AgoHarry Fox
MSXJapan
One day, a fox kit living in the Romus Forest contracts the apparently uncurable "Romus disease", leaving his mother distraught. She remembers her grandmother's story of a cure hidden deep within the forest, a piece of fried tofu found at a shrine.
39 Years AgoEvil Eye
Apple IIWorldwide
You are an eyeball in outer space. You shoot at the floating objects in your quadrant until they're all gone at which point you begin a new level with different objects. Ad infinitum. This is very much like Asteroids.
38 Years AgoRock'n Wrestle
PCWorldwide
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.
38 Years AgoWheel of Fortune
Apple IINorth America
A very basic translation of the popular game show Wheel of Fortune, where you guess letters until you can guess the phrase. This CGA version has three old-school rounds of Wheel of Fortune (where the puzzles are simply "Phrase", "Title", "Person", etc.) and then a bonus round.
38 Years AgoGaiflame
Sharp X1Japan
Mecha strategy game developed by Masaya in 1987. Gaiflame is a turn-based strategy game from Masaya that was released on a number of Japanese home computers, as well as the PC Engine. No version of the game was ever released outside of Japan.
38 Years AgoJuushin Rogus
PC-98Japan
The space federation has assigned you a critical mission on planet Sagoth: defeat the forces of Geisel, a professor turned conqueror.
38 Years AgoTestament
MSX2Japan
As told by the ancient scroll Lyle found on his travels, a great five-headed Pentadragon once ruled the Diodoran continent with its legions of monsters. The heavens struck them down, sinking their land far into the earth...until now.
38 Years AgoFrigate
DOSWorldwide
Frigate is a real-time, text-based strategic game which pits you and your ship against a Soviet fleet of vessels. The object of the game is to destroy as many of the Russian ships as possible while avoiding destruction.
38 Years AgoShadow Hunter
MSXPC-88PC-98Japan
A famous writer announces her engagement and starts to receive threats and gets blackmailed. The main character is a detective tasked with identifying the stalker. As the investigation proceeds, a murder occurs.
38 Years AgoCrack
AmigaEurope
Swiss developed Arkanoid style game, with a prehistoric theme. Play is for one or two players simultaneously (including a battle-mode), and options are available for mouse and joystick controls. A comprehensive level editor is also included.
37 Years AgoGrailquest
DOSNorth America
A detailed graphic adventure game that has a very high end interactive fiction storyline. This game uses a "point and shoot" interface that uses your mouse.
37 Years AgoLakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs
DOSNorth America
The first game in EA's NBA Live franchise, Lakers vs. Celtics puts the player in the driver's seat with the team of their choice, with the goal of winning it all in the 1989-90 NBA season.
37 Years AgoSuper Solvers: Midnight Rescue!
MacDOSWorldwide
Morty Maxwell, the master of mischief, is up to his old tricks again, and this time the Shady Glen School is the target of his outlandish plot.
37 Years AgoSword of Aragon
DOSWorldwide
A fantasy war game that includes heroes, military units, city management and fighting dragons. There is a story while you try to claim the throne as your own.
37 Years AgoMid-Garts
PC-98Japan
When the epic, thousand-year-old battle between different dragon clans was finally over, and the benevolent White Dragons started ruling the country of Akranis, it looked like the age of peace has finally arrived.
37 Years AgoTawhid
MSXJapan
Year 2031. Main character is a 28-year old ex-operative photographer who travels around the world while taking pictures of ruins destroyed by war.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.