ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
April 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1195 releases
41 Years AgoNumber Builder
C64Worldwide
Number Builder is an single screen educational platformer to help you improve your maths over twelve levels. You play the role of a builder who must move around a building site, climbing ladders, looking for sums to make a target number.
41 Years AgoThe Castle
PC-88Japan
The game has a fairly standard plot of rescuing a princess from a castle, though the game itself was considered very large for the time. It also contains a map system similar to that of later Metroid and Castlevania games. The Castle was followed by the game Castle Excellent.
41 Years Ago
41 Years AgoHyper Sports 3
MSXJapan
Set a new world record in four different sports! Konami's all-new HYPER SPORTS 3 challenges your skill and reflexes.
41 Years AgoHarry Fox
FM-7Japan
One day, a fox kit living in the Romus Forest contracts the apparently uncurable "Romus disease", leaving his mother distraught. She remembers her grandmother's story of a cure hidden deep within the forest, a piece of fried tofu found at a shrine.
41 Years AgoSpare Change
FM-7Japan
Run your own video arcade and try to keep your token machines filled in this frantic action game from Brøderbund.
41 Years AgoBongo's Bash
Apple IIWorldwide
You are Bongo the gorilla and you're being pursued by evil robots. Your job is to collect the coconuts and leave the maze while avoiding the robots or dropping trees in their path leading them to a fiery demise. Very much like Pac Man.
41 Years AgoBlagger Goes to Hollywood
C64Europe
Blagger goes to Hollywood to steal the latest movie of famed director Speilbum. But his attempts are thwarted by a wide variety of movie characters, like Tarzan, James Bond or several comics book characters.
41 Years AgoMindwheel
Apple IIDOSNorth America
An electronic novel where the protagonist must dive into the minds of four deceased powerful figures in order to save the world from destruction.
41 Years AgoSuper Pipeline 2
C64North America
Connect the pipelines correctly for the water to reach its destination.
41 Years AgoTrolls and Tribulations
Atari 8-bitNorth America
You collect treasure in a sewer labyrinth.
41 Years AgoMail Order Monsters
C64North America
Players create a variety of monsters and equip them with futuristic and modern weapons to do battle. Two players can play and compete at the same time and fight each other, or play capture the flag.
41 Years AgoRacing Destruction Set
C64North America
An isometric racing game that sets itself apart by the large number of customizable options. The game comes with 50 built-in tracks, and the intuitive editor makes for infinite variety of races. Modify the existing ones or create one yourself.
41 Years AgoWeb Dimension
C64North America
This game, according to the manual is Darwin's Theory of Evolution turned into a fabulous musical fantasy. There are eight levels of evolution, each having three phases: Phase 1: Freeze all organisms into energy clusters.
41 Years AgoSpitfire 40
C64Europe
Spitfire '40 is a combat flight simulator by Novotrade, set during WWII.
40 Years AgoCosmic Soldier
Sharp X1Japan
In the game, you must locate 3 data cards and 4 "filters" that allow access to a secret file in the enemy data bank.
40 Years AgoEscape from Rungistan
PC-88Japan
A graphical text-adventure in which the player has to escape from the mid-African nation of Rungistan.
40 Years AgoDoctor Who and the Mines of Terror
C64Europe
The game centers on the player's character of the Doctor (specifically his sixth incarnation), and his robotic programmable cat Splinx. The goal of the game is to halt the Master's production of Heatonite, retrieve stolen plans for the Time Lords, and return safely.
40 Years AgoSword of Kadash
Atari ST/STENorth America
An incredibly difficult action RPG for the Commodore 64 and Apple IIe. You wander a dungeon full of skeletons, demons, bats, and other creatures in search of the sword of Kadash.
39 Years AgoProfanation
Amstrad CPCWorldwide
Profanation is an action game, where the player controls a fearless adventurer on his way to the mystical doors leading to hell.
38 Years AgoKiss of Murder: Another Story of Manhattan Requiem
Standalone expansionSharp X1Japan
Kiss of Murder, is set in a parallel world to Manhattan Requiem, and while featuring the same set of characters as that title, has a completely different scenario. Early releases of the game were addons to "Manhattan Requiem" and used its graphical data.
36 Years AgoEarth Shaker
ZX SpectrumWorldwide
In the style of Boulder Dash and Repton, Earth Shaker sees you as a small robot scuttling around an underground land of manic mayhem.
36 Years AgoCurse of Babylon
C64North America
The country of Babylon was once a thriving community, enjoying peace and prosperity. However, all that changed when monsters invaded the land. Eventually, the entire population was wiped out and Babylon became an enclosed area no one dared to enter.
35 Years AgoHovertank 3D
DOSWorldwide
One of the first games of iD Software. Sometimes it's claimed to be the first FPS or even first 3D game for DOS.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.