On This Day in Gaming: April 16

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

April 16

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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Pac-Man Pizza Parlor cover16 Years Ago

Pac-Man Pizza Parlor

PCNorth America

When Cathy's father loses his memory, it’s up to her to run the family pizza parlor. Fortunately, PAC-MAN is on the job to lend a helping hand! Guide PAC-MAN around the conveyor belt to collect ingredients for Cathy and use them to create each customer's order.

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Wizard Fire

ZeeboBrazil

Wizard Fire was released in the US as such, although it is a direct sequel to Gate of Doom and Data East archives still refer to the game as Gate of Doom II. The series is known as Dark Seal in Japan. The class types to choose from are wizard, bard, knight, elf or dwarf.

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Lorax Garden

iOSWorldwide

Help the Lorax regrow the world's Truffula tree forests! Design your own trees and flowers, see them grow right before your eyes, and share beautiful postcards you've created with friends & family.

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Super BurgerTime

ZeeboBrazil

Super BurgerTime was an arcade sequel to the original BurgerTime, which adds simultaneous multiplayer to the standard gameplay.

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Swiper's Big Adventure

Web browserPCWorldwide

Baby Fox lost his way and Swiper has volunteered to take him home. With help from Dora, Boots, and you, Swiper will fulfill his kind quest. But you'll have to be very careful because crows, spiders and bats are around and they will try to slow him down.

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Icarus-X

iOSWorldwide

Icarus-X is a Full 3D Vertical Shooter, featuring fast paced action, epic boss battles, challenging achievements, downloadable replays and the mandatory online leaderboards!

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The Tower: A Bomb's Climb

Xbox 360Worldwide

The Tower: A Bomb's Climb is a multiplayer 2D platform game played using only one button. Players hold down the jump button to charge up a jump and then release to leap into the air. Ascend the tower quicker than your friends to drop them into the fire below and win the game.

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Dinner for Pigeons

PCWorldwide

Dinner For Pigeons is a freeware, snack-size adventure game with candy-colored cartoon graphics and a gentle arcade slant. Close your eyes. Imagine you are a pigeon.

Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower cover15 Years Ago

Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower

Web browserWorldwide

A dashing and magnetic genius has invited his closest companion to an eldritch structure, hoping to avert a cataclysm and hiding a terrible secret.

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European War 3

iOSWorldwide

In European War 3 you will be a commander leading your soldiers to fight for resources, promote economic and industrial growth, develop new technology and seize opposing territory.

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MonTowers: Legend of Summoners

iOSNorth America

Combine monsters to create powerful and beautiful creations! Engage in fevered battles with powerful enemies! Collect over 600 different monsters into your personal army!

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Sushi Monster

iOSWorldwide

A math game that involves solving math problems in order to feed sushi to various monsters.

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Hidden Mysteries: Return to Titanic

PCWorldwide

Solve Hidden Mysteries in Hidden Mysteries: Return to Titanic! After using a secret alias to board the Titanic, things go terribly wrong and you find yourself trapped among the wreckage.

Starlink cover13 Years Ago

Starlink

PCMacLinuxWorldwide

Starlink is a cross-platform, real-time strategy game that features co-op and competitive multiplayer even on the same device.

Forever Lost: Episode 1 cover13 Years Ago

Forever Lost: Episode 1

AndroidWorldwide

Awaking in a mind you don’t know to a world you can’t remember. Surrounded by things that can’t be real, haunted by experiences long forgotten.

Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold cover13 Years Ago

Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold

PS3North America

The sequel to American Laser Game's original Mad Dog McCree, with pretty much the same gameplay and motion capture graphics. This PC conversion seems to have been tweaked a bit to be more stable than the original Mad Dog.

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Dragon Fantasy: Book I

PS3PS VitaNorth America

Experience an all-new old adventure!

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Soul Hackers cover13 Years Ago

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Soul Hackers

Expanded editionNintendo 3DSNorth America

A remake of the PlayStation and Sega Saturn game of the same name. New features include full voice acting, 30 new demons, and the ability to use play coins to make Nemechi stronger.

Retro Arcade Adventure Remade cover13 Years Ago

Retro Arcade Adventure Remade

PCWorldwide

Retro styled Hack and Slash action with a fire breathing variety of Power Ups and huge bosses. * A one screen hack and slash arcade type game. * You are running around on one screen and hack your way through waves of enemies. * Power Ups wi…

RPG Maker 3 cover13 Years Ago

RPG Maker 3

PS3North America

This game is the sixth numbered entry, and the second one for the PlayStation 2, of the role-playing game construction kit.

No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either! cover12 Years Ago

No Heroes Allowed: No Puzzles Either!

PS VitaEurope

HEROES… WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM As the all-powerful God of Destruction, you must quickly move falling tiles to match three or more identical icons – which will then summon a pack of deadly monsters hungry for juicy hero flesh.

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ReignMaker

PCNorth America

ReignMaker is a city building political strategy game with match-3 tower defense combat. From your capital city you lead your Kingdom against the invading Void Army that threatens all life.

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Neutopia

Wii UJapan

Neutopia is an overhead action-adventure video game developed by Hudson Soft. It was released by Hudson for the PC Engine in Japan on November 17, 1989. It was then released by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16 in North America in 1990.

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Icarus Online

PCEurope

An MMORPG developed on CryEngine 3.

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

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