ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
February 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
2088 releases
15 Years AgoBionic Commando Rearmed 2
PS3North America
Capcom presents the next evolution in retro side-scrolling action with Bionic Commando Rearmed 2. Equipped with his famous bionic arm, Nathan 'Radd' Spencer swings back into action in order to stop General Sabio from launching a deadly missile strike.
9 Years AgoCandleman
Xbox OneWorldwideNorth America
A 3D platformer featuring unique low-light gameplay. Players control the candle and can move, jump and light up. As the candle burns, it reveals safe passage and drips wax but also reduces its height and lifespan.
8 Years AgoDelver
MacPCLinuxWorldwideNorth America
Delver is a first person action roguelike dungeon crawl with crunchy pixels. Take the role of an adventurer that tries their fate in the dark dungeons (and probably dies horribly). Fight monsters, grab loot, hoard potions, and level up!
7 Years AgoAnimal Super Squad
Xbox OneNorth America
Animal Super Squad is a physics-based game that lets you play a chicken riding a toilet on wheels, or a sloth with a propeller on its butt, speeding through a world full of traps and bananas.
4 Years AgoDeFi Land
Web browserWorldwide
DeFi Land is the place to enjoy a farming, fishing, gardening and other relaxing activities. Users can build their villages, interact with other players and NPCs to craft the most precious items, compete for the leaderboards and revive the inner farmers in them.
35 Years AgoInindo: Way of the Ninja
MSXWorldwide
"Inindo: Way of the Ninja" is a console-style RPG with a touch of strategy. You navigate your hero on the world map, visit towns, and descend into dungeons. The battles are turn-based and are viewed from a third-person perspective, like in Final Fantasy games.
25 Years AgoArmagetron Advanced
PCWorldwide
Armagetron is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron. It's an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots.
16 Years AgoDigital: A Love Story
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.
8 Years AgoTekken Mobile
AndroidWorldwide
TEKKEN, the world's most successful fighting game franchise has been brought to mobile! Join PAUL, KAZUYA, XIAOYU, LAW, PANDA, NINA & all other famous fighters to engage in an intuitive, deep combat system featuring fighting techniques from all around the world.
8 Years AgoHer Majesty's Spiffing
SwitchWorldwideNorth America
Her Majesty's Spiffing is a quaint graphic adventure game following the exploits of Captain Frank Lee English and his trusted regional accented colleague, Aled, as they travel through the cosmos in search of planets to claim for a new Galactic British Empire!
8 Years AgoFreeman: Guerrilla Warfare
PCWorldwide
Single-player PC game Freeman: Guerrilla Warfare is a unique combination of tactical FPS and strategy game, where the player takes the role of a commander, raising funds, building army, skirmishing enemy forces, attacking and defending territories and conquer the world.
44 Years AgoAlpine Ski
ArcadeWorldwide
Maneuver a skier through a downhill ski course, a slalom course, and a ski jumping competition.
44 Years AgoBubbles
ArcadeWorldwide
Bubbles is an action game with puzzle elements where the player controls the protagonist, a soap bubble, from a top-down perspective. The object is to clean a kitchen sink by maneuvering the bubble over ants, crumbs, and grease to absorb them.
43 Years AgoMajor Havoc
ArcadeWorldwide
Long ago the evil Vaxxian Empire overran the galaxy. Most of humanity was enslaved and abducted to the Vaxxian homeworld. A few humans, who were scientists, managed to escape.
42 Years AgoThunder Castle
IntellivisionNorth America
A whimsical new medieval fantasy game developed Connie Goldman and David Warhol of Mattel Electronics and published by INTV Corporation for the Intellivision in 1986. You're the knight in shining armor on your quest for survival.
40 Years AgoFormation Z
Sharp X1Japan
The player competes in a marathon continuous scrolling horizontal shoot-em-up game across land, sea, air and outer space. You can hold down the fire button for a burst of Charged fire, which is especially essential to defeat the bosses.
37 Years AgoSecret Quest
Atari 2600Worldwide
It started with one station, then three, then eight. If something isn't done, the aliens will overrun Earth. It is up to you to destroy the stations by setting their self destructs.
31 Years Ago3-D Ultra Pinball
PCWorldwide
The original 3-D Ultra Pinball game was released in 1995. This game is based on the space simulation game, Outpost. There are three tables named Colony, Command Post, and Mine and each table holds a set of five challenges.
8 Years AgoShiftlings
SwitchWorldwide
Shiftlings is the universally (and we mean that literally) popular hyper-show that has our two tenacious tech’s bravely battle blunders and booboos through the most zany and exotic locales of the known universe. Shift work at its best.
15 Years AgoEarthworm Jim HD
RemakePS3Japan
Earthworm Jim HD is a high definition remake of the original Earthworm Jim video game. The main addition to the gameplay is the inclusion of a 4 player cooperative online multi-player mode.
14 Years AgoDouble Fine Happy Action Theater
Xbox 360North America
Are you annoyed at how little magic you are able to shoot from your fingers? Have you ever tried to get grandma to do the worm, but all she would do is just stand there? Have you ever noticed how your living room doesn’t have any hot lava in it?
13 Years AgoUnity of Command
LinuxWorldwide
Unity of Command is an innovative and refreshing operational-level wargame that covers the entire 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.
10 Years AgoPocket Rumble
PCWorldwide
Pocket Rumble is a streamlined, beginner-friendly 2-button fighting game that retains all the gameplay elements that make traditional 2D fighters great, but reduces the level of execution and memorization necessary to the bare minimum.
7 Years Ago8-Bit Hordes
PS4Xbox OneWorldwide
From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.