ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
February 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
2088 releases
43 Years Ago
43 Years Ago
43 Years AgoJawbreaker II
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
Man! If you like Pac-Man, candy, giant spinning happy faces, more candy, Mozart (I think), teeth, moving horizontally....well....Jawbreaker II has it all! This is a fun game for the TI-99/4A, and was a sequel...I guess?...of the original Jawbreaker on the Atari 2600.
43 Years AgoG.I. Joe: Cobra Strike
Atari 2600North America
In the single-player mode, the player controls a G.I. Joe training camp on the bottom of the screen protected by a barrier and armed with two laser cannons.
43 Years AgoYamato
ArcadeWorldwide
In the game the player takes control of the Yamato battleship (which was sunk off Kyushu during World War II), firing at enemy ships and planes while avoiding missiles and torpedoes.
43 Years AgoSwords & Serpents
IntellivisionNorth America
An early console action RPG with a top-down Gauntlet look. One of the first co-op console titles.
43 Years AgoCountermeasure
Atari 5200North America
We've just received word that terrorists have seized one of our missile silo complexes and are threatening to blow up Washington, D.C. These lunatics aren't fooling! They've wired the missiles to a silo computer and started the launch sequence timer.
43 Years AgoSector Alpha
ColecoVisionWorldwide
Sector Alpha is a three-dimensional arcade-type search and destroy game. Robot penetrator space craft are invading from three directions and you must face and destroy them in each direction of the playing field.
43 Years AgoScooby Doo's Maze Chase
IntellivisionWorldwide
You control Scooby as he chases ghosts through a maze while himself being chased by the skull & crossbones. If three ghosts are caught within a time-limit, the skull will disappear and a submarine sandwich appears.
43 Years AgoShootin' Gallery
Atari 2600Worldwide
Similar to the game Carnival, you must shoot targets and guard your ammunition supply.
43 Years AgoMunch Mobile
ArcadeWorldwide
The object is to drive safely down the road. Pick up enough fuel to stay alive while avoiding other vehicles that go by, grab as many bonus objects as possible including apples, cherries, bananas, acorns, live fish and money, and park your car in the garage.
43 Years AgoChampion Baseball
ArcadeWorldwide
Player chooses team and plays baseball against computer. Game ends when player is tied or losing at the end of an inning or nine innings have been played.
43 Years AgoSpace Robot
Atari 2600Worldwide
This game is a clone of Missile Command, originally developed by Atari. The main difference between Space Robot and Missile Command is instead of shooting oncoming missiles, you are shooting falling robots.
43 Years AgoPrincess and Frog
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
This take on Frogger features music and speech. In this variation, you are a frog trying to get to the princess's castle. You must first cross a road filled with jousting knights on horseback.
43 Years AgoSneggit
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
In Sneggit, you control a chicken trying to gather up eggs from the barnyard before the snakes get them! Pick up one egg at a time, bring it back to the nest, and repeat!
43 Years AgoAztarac
ArcadeWorldwide
The actual game has you piloting a little space tank. The tank and its turret are controlled independently, which allows you to move in one direction while shooting in another. Your mission is to guard various space outposts from hordes of incoming enemy ships.
43 Years AgoPower Lords: Quest for Volcan
PortColecoVisionWorldwide
As superhero Adam Power, you’re the pilot of a space sled on patrol around the explosive Volcan Rock, and what better cover for the bad guys? An enormous laser-eyed space serpent is coiled around the mountain, and you have to take it down single-handedly.
43 Years AgoAmbulance
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
The object of the game is to pick up patients from their homes and race them to the hospital. When a house flashes, that indicates a sick patient is present. Navigate to the house and press the fire button to pick the patient up.
43 Years AgoDriving Demon
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
Driving Demon is a racing game played from a top down perspective on a single straight. The player has to race down a two-lane road to earn the high score. Other cars occupy the road and these have to be avoided or else the player will crash and lose a life.
43 Years AgoScuba Dive
ZX SpectrumWorldwide
The aim of the game was simple yet unique. Starting with three divers (lives) on a motor boat you were to drop into the deep blue and gather underwater riches such as pearls and treasure.
43 Years AgoMetagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time
Commodore VIC-20Europe
Take control of Metallama and fight off the Zzyaxian cyborg, arachnid mutants in this side-scrolling shooter from the mind of Jeff Minter.
43 Years AgoAmbush
ArcadeJapan
A spaceship must attempt to take off by repeatedly pressing left and right. Then it must attempt to fight off enemy spaceships.
43 Years AgoCrazy Caveman
C64Worldwide
You try to survive on your way back home after being separated from your peers while hunting.
43 Years AgoSewermania
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
This game was designed by both Beverly Starke (Milton Bradley graphics artist) and programmer Dave Landon. According to Dave, Sewermania was MB President Jim Shea's favorite game out of all the MBX titles that were in development.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.