On This Day in Gaming: February 1

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

35 Years Ago

Magic Cube

FamicomAsia

Have you ever played with "Russian Blocks?" And have you played with "Magical Stone?" If yes, we'd like to tell you now that these games are out of date. The newest "Magic Cube" will bring you to the new world! Break through the traditional routing and combine with the new idea.

35 Years Ago

Pyramid Magic III

Mega Drive / GenesisJapan

Pyramid Magic III (ピラミッドマジックIII) is a puzzle-platform game for the Sega Mega Drive, released exclusively in Japan via the Sega Game Toshokan service.

35 Years Ago

MegaMind

Mega Drive / GenesisJapan

MegaMind (メガマインド) is a game for the Sega Mega Drive, released exclusively in Japan via the Sega Game Toshokan service. The game consists to guess what is the right following.

34 Years Ago

16 Tiles Mahjong

Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide

16 Tiles Mahjong is a Board game, developed by City Man Technologies and published by Sun Green Technology, which was released in Asia in 1992.

34 Years Ago

Combat Aces

Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide

Combat Aces is a prototype cancelled due to the lack of release of the Teleplay Modem . Programmed by Chuck Peavey.

34 Years Ago

15-in-1 Mega Collection: Backtracking Ten Years

PC EngineWorldwide

Contains fifteen different games originally released for the VIC-20.

34 Years Ago

PC Pachi Slot 777

PC EngineWorldwide

Slot Game

Sunsoft Grand Prix cover34 Years Ago

Sunsoft Grand Prix

Game BoyEurope

33 Years Ago

Kaitei Daisensou

ArcadeWorldwide

Also known has In the Hunt outside of Japan. An organization known as the D.A.S. (The Dark Anarchy Society) uses magnetic doomsday machines to melt the polar ice caps and thus desolate the world.

32 Years Ago

Light Bringer

ArcadeWorldwide

Light Bringer (también conocido como Dungeon Magic), es un juego de arcade de Taito Corporation, perteneciente al género Hack and Slash medieval.

32 Years Ago

Steel Force

ArcadeWorldwide

Steel Force is a 2D top down arcade shooter, similar in style to Alien Breed, but much more action-oriented. The main hero, a Federation soldier fights against space pirates - he must kill various enemies and find the exit in limited time.

32 Years Ago

Gumbo

ArcadeWorldwide

A puzzle game with female nude pictures in the background.

32 Years Ago

Gun Dealer '94

ArcadeWorldwide

This upgrade to one of Dooyongs early games brings first and foremost one important addition: Competetive gameplay. Playing good hands now throws more cards at the opponent's field, disturbing their plans.

32 Years Ago

Jan Jan Paradise

ArcadeWorldwide

"Jan Jan Paradise" is a classic, top down, Japanese tabletop Mahjong game.

32 Years Ago

Instruments of Chaos

Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide

Germany is growing its war machine to overtake the world. To reach this goal quickly, their evil leaders sent spies around the world with instructions to buy the finest military weapon technologies.

Total Carnage cover32 Years Ago

Total Carnage

PortGame BoyNorth America

31 Years Ago

Hatch Catch

ArcadeWorldwide

Shoot coloured blocks at the top of the screen. When 3 or more same colored blocks draw a line, they disappear. By terminating all blocks, the stage is clear.

31 Years Ago

Hot Bubble

ArcadeWorldwide

In the above-cited issue of Amuse World, Ryou Hainam mentioned another puzzle game called Pandora, which supposedly was rather successful in Europe.

31 Years Ago

Lothar Matthäus Super Soccer

SNESEurope

Lothar Matthäus Super Soccer is a Sports game, developed by Krisalis Software and published by Ocean, which was released in Europe in 1995.

30 Years Ago

Miss World '96

ArcadeWorldwide

Miss World is 96 Puzzle arcade game Qix genre of erotica and adult themes developed by COMAD. The goal in the game is to reveal 80% of the silhouette of a beautiful girl on the screen, preventing the monster caze the player in the attempt.

29 Years Ago

Side by Side 2

ArcadeWorldwide

A one player racing game published and developed by Taito in 1997.

28 Years Ago

Batrider

ArcadeWorldwide

Armed Police Batrider (アームドポリス バトライダー?) is a vertically scrolling manic shooter arcade game developed and published by Raizing/Eighting in 1998.

28 Years Ago

Crazy Fight

ArcadeWorldwide

Players shoot at on-screen enemies while trying not to hit the hostages throughout six different stages of action.

Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.

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