ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
January 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1178 releases
29 Years AgoTrucks
DOSWorldwide
Trucks is an action, racing and arcade game developed by Microfolie's. It is set on the planet Cooroocoocoo, where you are an aspiring businessman/driver who has to buy one of 8 trucks available and takes on various missions.
29 Years Ago
29 Years AgoDisney's Animated Storybook: 101 Dalmatians
PCMacWorldwide
Relive the events of Disney's 101 Dalmatians in an educational animated picture book with minigames.
29 Years AgoRebel Moon Rising
PCWorldwide
One small step for the moon...one giant shock for mankind!
29 Years AgoXjump
LinuxWorldwide
A game where you jump up and up while the tower collapses under your feet. The objective of the game is to climb as high as you can before you fall. The speed in which the tower falls grows linearly with time until it reaches a certain threshold.
29 Years AgoThe L.E.D. Wars
PCNorth America
The game takes place in the 21st century, when different armies are fighting with each other to get hold of a Life Evolution Drug, shortly called L.E.D.
29 Years AgoBS Zelda no Densetsu
RemakeSatellaviewJapan
BS Zelda no Densetsu was a remake of The Legend of Zelda that was released for the Satellaview attachment of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.
29 Years AgoImmemory
PCMacEurope
In Immemory, Chris Marker has used the format of the CD-Rom to create a multi-layered, multimedia memoir.
29 Years AgoSunes Sportlov
PCEurope
Sune is love-stricken by his neighbours daughter Sophie, who is also vacationing at the same resort, but manages to antagonize her at the start of the story, so she makes up some difficult tasks for him to fulfill before accepting his invitations.
29 Years AgoMars 3D
DOSChina
A first-person 3D shooter/vehicular action game set on a colonized Mars. Players pilot armed rovers and on-foot vehicles through hostile alien-infested environments to complete mission objectives, rescue survivors, and retrieve resources.
28 Years AgoForestia : la grande aventure
PCEurope
An educational point-and-click adventure game about a forest where the player must solve problems the forest creatures have and learn about European flora and fauna within a number of minigames.
28 Years AgoStratosphere: Conquest of the Skies
PCWorldwide
Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies is a Vehicular combat game and also a real-time strategy PC game, developed by Kodiak Interactive and published by Ripcord Games in 1998. Stratosphere focuses on floating island battles which players control.
28 Years AgoClue Murder at Boddy Mansion
PCWorldwide
Based on the board game of the same name. It was developed in 1998 for Hasbro Interactive by EAI. Infogrames (now Atari) took over publishing rights for the game in 2000 when Hasbro Interactive went out of business.
28 Years AgoHumpty's Scramble
DOSNorth America
This game was made to promote the western-Canadian family restaurant chain "Humpty's" and their Kids' Club.
28 Years AgoKotobuki
PCNorth America
A puzzle arcade game with similarities to Lode Runner and billiard games. Created by C's Ware and is a spinoff to many of their earlier titles.
28 Years AgoSatellaWalker
SatellaviewJapan
SatellaWalker (also known by its shorthand, SW) is a Downloadable 2-part Soundlink game for the Satellaview that was broadcast between June 29, 1997 and January 2, 1998. It is a pseudo-RPG adventure game that takes place in the world of the BS-X BIOS.
28 Years Ago
28 Years AgoSequence Palladium
PCJapan
Released in 1998, Sequence Palladium is a fantasy mecha strategy RPG for Windows PC. The game follows a three part flow: starting with story events that into selecting a scenario which you then play out on the battle map and then continue to new story events.
28 Years AgoLéto s Oskarem
DOSEurope
Léto s Oskarem is a 1998 Czech adventure game authored by Pavel Širůček and distributed by Vochozka Trading.
28 Years Ago
28 Years AgoSonic PC
PCWorldwide
Sonic PC is a fan game developed and released by Physik Multimedia in 1998, packed in with Sonic Klik & Play Collection. The game is currently only available in Sonic Klik & Play Collection, as the original game has yet to be found.
28 Years Ago
28 Years AgoJeune Styliste: Haute couture
PCEurope
The first game in the Jeune Styliste saga, developed by Carré Multimedia and edited by Ubisoft, released exclusively in French.
28 Years AgoQuiz Academy
PCEurope
Quiz Academy is a family-friendly trivia game released in 1998, where players aim to reach the top of a pyramid by relying on their general knowledge and a bit of luck.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.