ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
February 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
2088 releases
40 Years AgoSamantha Fox Strip Poker
Amstrad CPCWorldwide
In this game, you play 5-card or 7-card stud poker against Samantha Fox, the well known model and singer from the UK. Remember though, the game is strip poker so the more you win, the less she wears!
40 Years AgoChicken Coop
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
Chicken Coop is a Joust clone from Navarone. In this game you take on the role of a chicken who leaves the "Chicken Hens" base. From there other chickens are released and you must come down from above to turn them into an egg.
40 Years AgoSuper Pro Football
IntellivisionWorldwide
For one or two players, Super Pro Football is an update of NFL Football. Select plays on screen and define pass patterns for two receivers. Each team can play at one of nine different skill levels.
40 Years AgoGall Force: Defence of Chaos
MSXWorldwide
Shoot'em'up based on the science fiction anime OVA. Two advanced civilizations, the amoeba-like Paranoids and the all-women Solnoids, are waging a war that has gone on for many centuries.
40 Years AgoDunkshot
MSXWorldwide
SUPER PLAYERS DUNKSHOT DUNKSHOT is the ultimate basketball game. You choose the colour of the court. You choose the colour of the uniforms.
40 Years AgoMoai no Hihou
MSXWorldwide
The goal of the game is to get to the level exit before your time runs out. This while avoiding foes.
40 Years AgoPainterboy
C64Worldwide
Painterboy is a game for Commodore 64. Released in 1986, it is one of the first advergames produced in Finland. The game is advertising paints from Finnish paint company Tikkurila.
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40 Years AgoSuper Rambo Special
MSXWorldwide
Super Rambo Special is a stealth-action-RPG based on the movie Rambo: First Blood Part 2. It was released for the MSX in 1986 and featured some early stealth elements anticipating Metal Gear.
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40 Years AgoCoaster Race
MSXWorldwide
It's going to take all the driving skill. You can master to make it through the steeply banked turns and the great 360° loop, so open the throttle and let'er up -- you'er on your way to taking the checker flag.
40 Years AgoThomas M. Disch's Amnesia
PCWorldwide
Amnesia is an interactive text adventure. The game begins as the player's character awakens in a midtown Manhattan hotel room with absolutely no memory. He has no clothes and no money, and doesn't even remember what he looks like.
40 Years AgoChampion Billiards
SG-1000Worldwide
Champion Billiards is a simplistic billiards game built for the SG-1000. It is the second game in Compile's "Lunar Pool" series. It was not released outside of Japan.
40 Years AgoTerebi Oekaki
SG-1000Worldwide
Terebi Oekaki is the game packaged with the Sega Graphic Board for the SG-1000. It is a simple paint program.
40 Years AgoSuper Tritorn
Expanded editionMSX2Worldwide
Super Tritorn is an enhanced port of Tritorn for MSX2, released by XAIN Soft in 1986. Tritorn is an early progenitor of the Action RPG genre and the first game in the Tritorn trilogy.
40 Years AgoComputer War
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
It's thermonuclear war! Break the computer code to launch your missiles, then guide your interceptors before enemy missiles converge with your cities. This is a game in two parts.
40 Years AgoRad Warrior
Amstrad CPCEurope
As Tal, your job is to single-handedly clear out the aliens who have invaded a desolate and destroyed post-nuclear earth. To have any chance of this, he must locate a sacred suit of armor.
40 Years AgoDaisenryaku
MSX2Japan
Daisenryaku 88 is the second game in the turn-based war strategy series. The core mechanics are similar to those of Gendai Daisenryaku:
40 Years AgoAlbatross: Tournament Golf
MSXJapan
Albatross is a top view golf game that consists of an 18 holes course. You can select your own clubs from 14 drivers, irons and a putter. Further you can adjust your stance, how you hit the ball and your swing.
39 Years AgoOlli & Lissa: The Ghost of Shilmore Castle
C64Europe
Help the ghost of Shilmore Castle in this 8-bit platformer.
39 Years AgoSigma 7
Amstrad CPCZX SpectrumEurope
The space station Sigma 7 has a problem: all robots have gone havoc. Now the player has to set things right by using the central controls inside the station - but of course it is not that easy.
39 Years AgoZarch
Acorn ArchimedesWorldwide
The player, piloting a lone craft with limited firepower, must defend a finite landscape against ever increasing waves of enemy craft. In Zarch, the landscape is being invaded by aliens who are spreading a virus across the landscape.
39 Years AgoVillage of Lost Souls
Amstrad CPCWorldwide
12 Lost Souls is an Adventure game, developed and published by Len Townsend, which was released in Europe in 1987.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.