ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
April 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1195 releases
35 Years AgoSex Olympics
AmigaEurope
Sex Olympics has controls comparable to other point-and-click adventures such as the ability to move up, down, left and right, which are context-sensitive to the player's location, as well as commands to take, drop, touch, give, use, go, look, and talk to NPCs.
35 Years AgoLa Espada Sagrada
DOSEurope
"La Espada Sagrada" is an action adventure game consisting of three levels. where our protagonist aspires to obtain the Sacred Sword.
34 Years AgoL'Ange et le Demon
Philips CD-iEurope
A point and click adventure game on Philips CD-i taking place in Mont Saint Michel.
34 Years AgoGobMan
DOSWorldwide
GobMan is a shareware MS-DOS game made in 1992 by Filipe Mateus, a Canadian software developer. GobMan is highly remniscent of Pac-Man with a yellow proteagonist traversing multiple mazes eating dots and eluding ghosts.
34 Years AgoDead of the Brain
PC-98Japan
Dead of the brain is a horror-based Adventure Game created in 1992 that is played in a point-and-click format.
34 Years Ago
33 Years AgoAngel Army
PC-98Japan
The first creation of Illusion, a company famous for its adult games, was a turn-based war game - with the only factor hinting at its creator's libido-flattering future being the generals of the game - all pretty girls, all from different countries.
33 Years AgoThe Adventures of MicroMan
PCNorth America
A platformer developed for Windows 3.1. The game is broken into two episodes and was planned to have a third which was never released. - Adventure 1: Crazy Computers - Adventure 2: Savage Stones - Adventure 3: Wild Waters (Abandoned)
32 Years AgoHeros: The Sanguine Seven
DOSNorth America
A jail break has occurred in the city of Megatropolis and five evil supervillains have escaped. The city's last resort is to summon a team of superheroes, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and special abilities.
32 Years AgoDark Legions
DOSWorldwide
Dark Legions is an action based strategy game. The player may play against the computer or another human on a strategic game board.
32 Years AgoEastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou
MacJapan
Eastern Mind is a point-and-click adventure game about a man named Rin who has lost his soul. Borrowing his friend's soul for 49 days, he goes on a quest to a location known as Tong Nou to die and be reincarnated nine times in order to recover his soul.
32 Years AgoOutpost
PCNorth America
In the first part of the 21st century, scientists discovered a huge asteroid named Vulcan's Hammer headed straight for Earth. A single corporation decided the only way for survival was to colonize other worlds.
32 Years AgoGaryouden Sangoku Seiha no Kei
PC-98Japan
Real-time strategic simulation game on Romance of the Three Kingdoms
31 Years AgoFrontier: First Encounters
DOSWorldwide
The third title in the Elite series of space strategic combat games, Frontier was notoriously marred by several bugs which spoiled an otherwise enjoyable game.
31 Years AgoTony La Russa Baseball 3
DOSNorth America
The third entry in the Tony La Russa series of baseball simulation games, which boasted of the eponymous manager having brought his expertise as a co-designer.
31 Years AgoMetal Head
32XAustraliaEurope
Bullets fly and circuits try in heavy-duty cyborg techno-slaughter. You control Metal Head, the ultimate cyborg warrior, patrolling the charred urban destruction of the great war. And a murderous mecha-force is gunning for you!
31 Years AgoAlice no Yakata 3
PCJapan
A collection of five mini-games with Alice from the Rance series. The first two games in this series were only available on Japanese computers.
30 Years AgoSapiens
PCEurope
An adventure game, published by French studio Loriciels, where the player controls an early example of Homo Sapiens as he survives and fights off hostile Neanderthal rivals.
30 Years AgoSangokushi: Koumei-den
PCJapan
Sangokushi Koumei-den is the second installment in the Sangokushi Eiketsuden series. Unlike its predecessor, Sangokushi Kōmeiden relies heavily on the player's ability and success in each combat to determine how the game will conclude.
30 Years AgoJewels of the Oracle
MacPCNorth America
Jewels of the Oracle is a stationary puzzle game with no real story line or plot.
29 Years AgoShin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner Digital Collection
PCJapan
A side disc to Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner packed with minigames like fortune telling, quizzes and dress-up. There are also other features such as screensavers, wallpapers, desktop themes, calculators, and calendars.
28 Years AgoThe Golf Pro
PCNorth America
The Golf Pro is Empire Interactive's first foray into golf sims. It is a standard 3rd person golf simulation with the addition of the mouse drive system introduced on Maxis's SimGolf and popularized on Sierra's Front Page Sports: Golf.
28 Years AgoHugo: Wild River
PCEurope
Hugo: Wild River, also known as Hugo 6, is a video game developed and published by ITE for the PC in 1998. As with other classic Hugo games, it was based on the newest scenarios from the TV game shows.
27 Years AgoBlue's ABC Time Activities
PCWorldwide
Blue's ABC Time Activities takes Blue's Clues, the Emmy-nominated #1 preschool TV series, to a whole new interactive level of playful learning.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.