On This Day in Gaming: April 13

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

April 13

The games released on this day in gaming history.

41 releases · Retro platforms, 1985–2010 · show all platforms and years

Tiny Bullets cover26 Years Ago

Tiny Bullets

PlayStationJapan

Tiny Bullets is an action-adventure game that plays remarkably similar to Tomb Raider.

Hello Kitty no 'Otonaru' Mail cover26 Years Ago

Hello Kitty no 'Otonaru' Mail

DreamcastJapan

Hello Kitty no 'Otonaru' Mail is a Japan-only Hello Kitty Dreamcast game. It has online functions that allow users to communicate with friends by sending mail using Hello Kitty characters.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB cover26 Years Ago

Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB

Game Boy ColorJapan

Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsule GB is a video game for the Game Boy Color. It has only been released in Japan.

NBA Hoopz cover25 Years Ago

NBA Hoopz

PlayStationDreamcastPS2Europe

Get ready for some seriously hot hoops action in the three-on-three court competition of NBA HOOPZ from Midway. In the grand tradition of NBA JAM and NFL BLITZ, arcade-style gameplay is the order of the day.

Lion and the King cover25 Years Ago

Lion and the King

PlayStationEurope

A movie, a jigsaw puzzle, and a digital colouring book, all one a single PlayStation disc.

UEFA Challenge cover25 Years Ago

UEFA Challenge

PlayStationEurope

UEFA Challenge is a Sports game, published by Infogrames, which was released in Europe in 2001.

California Watersports cover25 Years Ago

California Watersports

PlayStationEurope

California Watersports was developed on Australia's Gold Coast, spiritual home of the surfer, this unique game has been specifically created for the PlayStation console.

Armored Core: Nexus cover20 Years Ago

Armored Core: Nexus

PS2Europe

Years have passed since the incident at the Silent Line, and with it the collaborative effort began by the Corporations in response to it is long gone. The battle between the Corporations has re-emerged and continues unabated.

Mahjong Haoh: Dankyuu Battle II cover20 Years Ago

Mahjong Haoh: Dankyuu Battle II

PS2Worldwide

Mahjong Haoh: Dankyuu Battle II is a mahjong game.

Tomb Raider: Legend cover20 Years Ago

Tomb Raider: Legend

PortPS2Australia

This version of Tomb Raider: Legend includes a few omissions, likely due to disc space limitations. The rolling demos that typically play when the game is left idle on the title screen have been removed, and the "Unfortunate Mishaps" video is also absent.

Kanji Sono Mama Rakubiki Jiten cover20 Years Ago

Kanji Sono Mama Rakubiki Jiten

Nintendo DSJapan

Kanji Sono Mama Rakubiki Jiten is a Japanese dictionary released by Nintendo that features touch-screen-based searching in Japanese to English, English to Japanese, and also natively in Japanese.

Guilty Gear XX Slash cover20 Years Ago

Guilty Gear XX Slash

Expanded editionPS2Japan

Guilty Gear XX Slash is the second updated version of Guilty Gear X2. Once again, the game's balance was reworked by changing properties of certain moves and including new moves for some of the characters.

Master of Illusion Express: Shuffle Games cover17 Years Ago

Master of Illusion Express: Shuffle Games

Nintendo DSiNorth America

More games from the Master of Illusion game. Uses shuffling.

Mixed Messages cover17 Years Ago

Mixed Messages

Nintendo DSiNorth America

Alternate typing and drawing with peeps either online or in person. Two to twenty-one players required.

Easy Piano cover16 Years Ago

Easy Piano

Nintendo DSNorth America

Easy Piano offers more than 40 legendary titles, playable on a real mini-keyboard designed for the Nintendo DS.

41 Years Ago

Knuckle Joe

ArcadeWorldwide

Knuckle Joe was produced by Seibu Kaihatsu in 1985. Seibu Kaihatsu released 23 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985.

Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.

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