ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
April 20
The games released on this day in gaming history.
770 releases
36 Years Ago
36 Years AgoThe 4th Unit 5 - D-Again
FM TownsJapan
D-Again is the fifth 4th Unit game. The criminal trade organization WWWF was finally defeated.
36 Years AgoRune Master II
MSX2Japan
Rune Master 2 is a board game with role-playing game (RPG) elements. Up to 4 players compete to reach the Dark Lord castle, throwing computer dices and fighting monsters. The encounters and battles are random, and when someone is defeated they are sent back to the nearest town.
35 Years AgoAiza: New Generation
PC-98Japan
Somewhere on the continent of Fandell, there is a kingdom known as Wineslem. For hundreds of years, this kingdom has been enjoying a peaceful life. Its inhabitants make wine from the country's fine grapes, and merchants from all over the world travel there.
35 Years AgoCal II
X68000Japan
You are Wataru Ishibashi, a high-school student in modern Japan. Up until recently you led a normal life, enjoying the relationship with your lovely girlfriend Mika. But short before the graduation ceremony, you had a strange vision that you first believe to be a dream.
32 Years AgoDaisy's Garden
DOSEurope
Daisy's Garden is a platformer from the DOS era. You play as Daisy and need to pick all fruits and flowers in your garden. But watch out for the enemies on your way.
29 Years AgoBS Zelda no Densetsu: Inishie no Sekiban
SatellaviewJapan
Ancient Stone Tablets was a Japan-Only release for the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It was an add on made for Satellaview, a system that takes radio broadcasts and processes them into games live.
29 Years AgoMAngband
PCLinuxAndroidMacWorldwide
MAngband is a free online multiplayer real-time roguelike game, derived from the single player game Angband.
28 Years AgoAir Warrior III
PCWorldwide
AIR WARRIOR III combines all the exciting missions of Air Warrior II with four new Pacific planes, 6 new campaigns over the Pacific Ocean and Europe, and heart-pounding, stomach-churning, accelerator-enabled 3-D graphics.
27 Years AgoInterplay Sports Baseball 2000
PCNorth America
Interplay Sports Baseball Edition 2000 is a baseball video game developed and published by Interplay Entertainment for PlayStation (as Interplay Sports Baseball 2000) and Microsoft Windows in 1999.
26 Years AgoPantos Story
PCJapan
The frog Pantos lives a quiet, peaceful life in the land of Vita Lakamaya. One day he receives a message that his friend Garcia has left for the Sea of Oblivion, and so he makes the decision to follow him there.
26 Years AgoShockwave Tetris
Web browserWorldwide
Shockwave Tetris was the first official free online version of Tetris, hosted on Macromedia's Shockwave.com
26 Years AgoSlither Link
WonderSwanJapan
Slither Link is a Puzzle game, developed by Tomcat System and published by Bandai, which was released in Japan in 2000.
25 Years AgoCatch the Sperm
PCEurope
Catch the Sperm is a promotional game to raise awareness for HIV. The game was developed for the Stop AIDS campaign in 2001 (a joint prevention campaign by the Swiss Federal Ministry of Health and Swiss Aids Federation) in Switzerland.
24 Years AgoDooms
PCWorldwide
Dooms is a serial killer simulator made in RPG Maker 2000. On a rainy night, a man named Bob catches his wife cuckolding him in bed with another man and, driven by rage, kills them both.
22 Years AgoCrash Nitro Mini Golf
Web browserWorldwide
Crash Nitro Mini Golf was a browser-based golf game that ran on Shockwave,
22 Years Ago
21 Years AgoSuper Columbine Massacre RPG!
PCWorldwide
Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is a role-playing video game created by Danny Ledonne and released in April 2005. The game recreates the 1999 Columbine High School shootings near Littleton, Colorado.
21 Years AgoChaotix of Tomorrow
PCWorldwide
Chaotix of Tomorrow is a fan made Sonic RPG made by Magnus Andersson using RPG Maker 2000, it stars the Chaotix crew featuring the return of Mighty. The game was later updated in 2006 to add better graphics and new features.
21 Years AgoGizmondo Motocross 2005
GizmondoEurope
Gizmondo Motocross 2005 is a freestyle isometric view motorbike racing game. The game features bluetooth player support.
19 Years AgoGenesis Rising: The Universal Crusade
PCWorldwide
Three thousand years in the future, mankind has carved a bloody path towards domination of the known universe. Self-proclaimed as a divine race and beyond reproach as a species, they view all alien races as inferior.
19 Years AgoSubmachine 4: The Lab
Web browserWorldwide
Submachine. The game in which with every puzzle solved, every chapter finished you fall deeper and deeper into mystery. Fourth chapter takes us to the heart of the submachine, the place where all questions will be finally answered.
19 Years AgoBomb It
Web browserWorldwide
Bomb It is an amazing Bomberman game that lets you battle out intense competitions by yourself or together with a friend. Place your bombs strategically to blow up the enemies and destroy objects.
19 Years AgoChesstempo
Web browserWorldwide
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Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.