On This Day in Gaming: April 25

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

April 25

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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

The Crow: City of Angels cover29 Years Ago

The Crow: City of Angels

SaturnJapan

The Crow: City of Angels is a 3D fighting game in which the player wanders from screen to screen, fighting everybody they come across with a wide variety of kicks and punches that vary based on your proximity to your foe.

WinBack 2: Project Poseidon cover20 Years Ago

WinBack 2: Project Poseidon

PS2Worldwide

In a world where terror takes many forms, a new weapon threatens to shake the balance of power. Freedom's last hope rests in the hands of three new operatives, who must race against time to recover this doomsday device.

LostMagic cover20 Years Ago

LostMagic

Nintendo DSNorth America

LostMagic is an action RPG set in a mysterious realm where monsters wield unimaginable power and the fate of the universe is held together by seven magical wands.

Chessmaster cover23 Years Ago

Chessmaster

PS2Europe

Chessmaster includes plenty of features to improve your chess skills, no matter what level you are. In Chess School, you can learn basic and advanced tactics before challenging computer-controlled opponents in single-player or multiplayer modes.

Galerians: Ash cover24 Years Ago

Galerians: Ash

PS2Japan

Survival horror and science fiction come together in the sequel to Galerians. In Galerians: Ash, you reprise the role of Rion as he fights the Last Galerians and their evil leader Ash, who wants to destroy all organic life on Earth.

SingStar: Summer Party cover18 Years Ago

SingStar: Summer Party

PS2Europe

SingStar Summer Party is a karaoke game, featuring hit songs reminding summer and its hot nights. The game gives points which are distributed by the purity of singing, as in how well does one manage to stay on tune.

Keisan Game: Sansuu 1-nen cover40 Years Ago

Keisan Game: Sansuu 1-nen

FamicomJapan

An educational math game for young Japanese students. The first in a series of five games released in 1986 by magazine giant Tokyo Shoseki.

Keisan Game: Sansuu 2-nen cover40 Years Ago

Keisan Game: Sansuu 2-nen

FamicomJapan

An educational math game for young Japanese students. The second in a series of five games released in 1986 by magazine giant Tokyo Shoseki.

Keisan Game: Sansuu 3-nen cover40 Years Ago

Keisan Game: Sansuu 3-nen

FamicomJapan

An educational math game for young Japanese students. The third in a series of five games released in 1986 by magazine giant Tokyo Shoseki.

Devilman cover37 Years Ago

Devilman

FamicomJapan

Devilman is a side scrolling platform action/adventure game based on Go Nagai's Devilman.

Downtown Nekketsu Story cover37 Years Ago

Downtown Nekketsu Story

FamicomJapan

Downtown Nekketsu Story is the original version of the game known as River City Ransom. The game was first released as Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari, but has since been localized as Downtown Nekketsu Story.

Parodius da!: Shinwa kara Owarai he cover36 Years Ago

Parodius da!: Shinwa kara Owarai he

ArcadeJapan

A shoot'em up arcade game and the second title in the Parodius series. Similar to the first game the player has a choice of characters to play as: Tako the Octopus (aka Mr.

Super Ice Hockey cover32 Years Ago

Super Ice Hockey

SNESWorldwide

Super Ice Hockey is an ice hockey video game that enjoyed a release in Japan and Europe for the Super NES/Famicom. It is based on the international level of ice hockey with teams from 1994 as opposed to domestic (intra-national) ice hockey leagues.

Super Real Mahjong PIV cover32 Years Ago

Super Real Mahjong PIV

Super FamicomJapan

Super Real Mahjong PIV is a Miscellaneous game, developed by Affect and published by Seta Corporation, which was released in Japan in 1994.

Melfand Stories cover32 Years Ago

Melfand Stories

Super FamicomJapan

Melfand Stories is an side scrolling brawler with a cutesy fantasy theme. The player can use their weapons or their magic, or a combination thereof, to fight their way through various fantasy monsters and other enemies while finding items to help them out.

Savage Reign cover31 Years Ago

Savage Reign

Neo Geo MVSWorldwide

Savage Reign is a vs. fighting game that offers a dozen fighters, mixing fighting with weapons and a two-plane system like the one seen in the Fatal Fury saga, with which it is possible to get to the back of the stage by climbing to a higher level or climbing up pipes.

Sky Target cover29 Years Ago

Sky Target

SaturnJapan

Another 3rd person perspective arcade flight sim by Sega, similar to their classic After Burner in gameplay but featuring new gameplay mechanics and an entirely polygonal engine.

Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Zenpen Zeta no Kodou cover29 Years Ago

Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Zenpen Zeta no Kodou

SaturnJapan

The First part of the 2D side-scrolling action game based on the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam TV Show.

PAL: Shinken Densetsu cover29 Years Ago

PAL: Shinken Densetsu

PlayStationJapan

PAL is in most ways a traditional Japanese-style role-playing game. The player orders each character in battle, choosing attacks, items, and techniques. Equipment upgrades are represented as scrolls, and techniques can be upgraded as they are used.

Mizuki Shigeru no Yokai Butou-den cover29 Years Ago

Mizuki Shigeru no Yokai Butou-den

PlayStationJapan

Mizuki Shigeru no Youkai Butouden is a horror-themed fighting game based on the works of renowed japanese artist Mizuki Shigeru (1922 - 2015). This game was released for the original Sony Playstation by KSS in 1997.

Iwatobi Penguin Rocky x Hopper cover29 Years Ago

Iwatobi Penguin Rocky x Hopper

PlayStationJapan

Enjoy party games with the brother penguins Rocky & Hopper. Norinori Classics Super 70's dance music BGM to six! If you choose Raburabumodo, with a multi-tap controller in two pieces at a time up to four people can play!

Pro Yakyuu Nettou Puzzle Stadium cover29 Years Ago

Pro Yakyuu Nettou Puzzle Stadium

Super FamicomJapan

Pro Yakyuu Nettou Puzzle Stadium is a Puzzle game, published by Coconuts Japan, which was released in Japan in 1997.

Kakyuusei cover29 Years Ago

Kakyuusei

SaturnJapan

Kakyuusei is a 1996 PC-98 adventure dating sim where the protagonist must date (obviously) a girl or two or a dozen.

Tokyo Shadow cover29 Years Ago

Tokyo Shadow

SaturnJapan

An FMV adventure based on the eponymous light novel series by Aya Nishitani (the mind behind the Digital Devil Story novels, the basis of the Megami Tensei series). This horror-detective mystery adventure game takes place within the streets of a modern day Tokyo.

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

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