ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
February 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
563 releases · Retro platforms, 1985–2010 · show all platforms and years
34 Years AgoKris Kross: Make My Video
Sega CDWorldwide
Make My Video: Kris Kross is a video game based on real-time editing of music video footage. The setup is that a radio DJ is taking calls from listeners who want to see custom videos for their favorite Kris Kross videos.
34 Years AgoMarky Mark and the Funky Bunch: Make My Video
Sega CDWorldwide
Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch is a video game based on real-time editing of music video footage. The setup is that a brother and sister pair is arguing about what would make the best Marky Mark video.
34 Years AgoCal Ripken Jr. Baseball
Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide
This baseball game is your basic Genesis baseball game, play as one of 16 teams, along with two special teams, the All-Stars and the MVP's. Cal Ripken, the featured player is the only real player to appear in this game.
34 Years AgoChampionship Pro-Am
Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide
Guide your radio controlled car to victory in this racing game. You have to beat your 3 opponents on 32 tracks while avoiding obstacles like water and oil puddles and collecting bonus items like better engines and tires.
34 Years AgoDavid Robinson's Supreme Court
Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide
David Robinson's Supreme Court is a basketball game with both exhibition and tournament modes. Choose one out of four fictional teams and then draft various skilled fictional players onto the team.
34 Years AgoDeath Duel
Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide
The searing hiss of metal breaks the silence of dawn. As I step through the fleshy remains of my previous opponent, I realize the metal behemoth I am about to face is more fiercely equipped with deadly roto-bore proton rockets.
34 Years AgoJerry Glanville's Pigskin Footbrawl
Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide
Pigskin 621AD is a sort of dark-ages-medieval-fantasy-style combat rugby game in which two five-player teams take to the field to compete in a game of "footbrawl," all the while dodging rocks, trees, pools, pits, furniture and other obstacles.
34 Years AgoTrivial Pursuit: Genus Edition
Master SystemWorldwide
Trivial Pursuit is the world's greatest and best selling board game. This Sega version incorporates everything that has helped make it so.
34 Years AgoMenacer
Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide
The Menacer 6-Game Cartridge is a cartridge containing six light gun games for use with the Sega Menacer. The Menacer came bundled with this cartridge, and predictably it is not compatible with any other Mega Drive peripheral.
34 Years AgoSomer Assault
PC EngineWorldwide
Here begins the story from a time and a world not our own ... A sorceress used her evil powers to fulfill her conquest to rule the world. "Go my dead slaves to trample and rule the world which will belong to us!" You are the only one who can crush her wretched plans!
34 Years AgoStar Trek: 25th Anniversary
PortGame BoyWorldwide
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary is a 1992 Game Boy video game developed by Visual Concepts and published by Ultra, based upon the Star Trek universe. The game chronicles a mission of James T. Kirk and his crew of the USS Enterprise.
34 Years AgoBig Nose Freaks Out
NESNorth America
Big Nose Freaks Out is a platform game for the NES, produced by Codemasters and published by Camerica. The player controls a cave man character who has had all his bones stolen from a prehistoric bank by a dinosaur.
34 Years AgoSuper Boy IV
Master SystemChina
Super Boy 4 is the fourth and supposedly final game in the Super Boy series by Zemina. Super Boy 4 again changes Super Boy's design, this time not being based off of Mario.
34 Years AgoThunder Hoop
ArcadeEurope
Thunder Hoop is a 2D side-scrolling platform game that puts players in the shoes of Thunder Hoop. Thunder Hoop has to stop the uncontrollable creatures professor Genbreak has released into to the world.
34 Years AgoGeneral's Son
FamicomAsia
The General's Son (Janggun ui adeul) is a 1-on-1 fighting game and based on the Korean gangster movie of the same name. Kim Du-han lost his mother at the age of eight, and he survives on the streets as a singing beggar.
34 Years AgoGo! Benny!
FamicomAsia
Go! Benny! is an Action game, developed by Mega Soft and published by NTDEC, which was released in Asia in 1992.
34 Years AgoWizard Fire
ArcadeJapanNorth America
Wizard Fire was released in the US as such, although it is a direct sequel to Gate of Doom and Data East archives still refer to the game as Gate of Doom II. The series is known as Dark Seal in Japan. The class types to choose from are wizard, bard, knight, elf or dwarf.
34 Years AgoSea of Dreamland
FamicomJapan
Sea of Dreamland is a side scroller set in the open ocean. Your character is a seahorse who must clear out all dangers before they overtake your character. You control the ocean!
34 Years AgoTrack & Field in Barcelona
NESEurope
Track & Field in Barcelona released on the NES was a re-release in Europe in 1992 in the light of the 1992 Summer Olympics, earlier versions were simply known as Track & Field.
34 Years AgoKiss Shot
Mega Drive / GenesisJapan
Kiss Shot is an billiards game for the Sega Mega Drive, released exclusively in Japan via the Sega Game Toshokan service.
34 Years AgoWarrior of Rome II
Mega Drive / GenesisJapan
Warrior of Rome II is a real-time strategy game similar to Populous, in which the player controls the Roman Army.
34 Years AgoKa-Blooey
PortSNESWorldwide
You play using either an overhead or isometric view. To complete each level the avatar has to destroy all bombs on a level. Bombs come in different sizes and it is only possible to ignite the smallest kind without dying.
34 Years AgoIkasuze! Koi no Doki-doki Penguin Land MD
Mega Drive / GenesisJapan
Ikazuse! Koi no Doki-doki Penguin Land MD — called just Doki-doki Penguin Land on Sega's archive — is a Sega Mega Drive game released only in Japan as part of the Sega Game Toshokan service.
34 Years AgoQ*bert for Game Boy
Expanded editionGame BoyNorth America
Q*bert for Game Boy brings new challenges to the classic series.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.