On This Day in Gaming: May 17

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

May 17

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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

Digimon Tamers: Pocket Culumon cover25 Years Ago

Digimon Tamers: Pocket Culumon

PlayStationJapan

In this final entry of the Pocket Digimon sub-series, you can interact with Culumon, that little Digimon from Digimon Tamers anime series. Unlike in the previous Pocket Digimon games, you can only get Culumon to your PocketStation. Also, Culumon can not evole at all.

Lethal Skies Elite Pilot: Team SW cover24 Years Ago

Lethal Skies Elite Pilot: Team SW

PS2Worldwide

When the ice in the Siberian region melts, a worldwide catastrophe occurs and 90% of the earth is submerged under water. Lifting the major cities and providing assistance is the objective of the newly formed World Alliance, comprised of most of the surviving nations.

Lake Masters EX cover24 Years Ago

Lake Masters EX

PS2Worldwide

Lake Masters EX is a single player, bass fishing game. The player competes in tournaments over the course of a season and gains points by winning or at least finishing in the rankings.

Final Fantasy X International cover24 Years Ago

Final Fantasy X International

Expanded editionPS2Australia

Final Fantasy X International is the Japanese re-release of Final Fantasy X and the original PAL release. It features content not available in the original Japanese release.

Cleopatra Fortune cover23 Years Ago

Cleopatra Fortune

PlayStationNorth America

Cleopatra Fortune is a falling-block puzzle game featuring a cutesy anime Egyptian theme. Groups of stones and gems of different shapes fall from the top of a well.

U-Move Super Sports cover22 Years Ago

U-Move Super Sports

PS2AustraliaNew Zealand

Built around 15 entertaining mini-games and with a host of smaller fun asides, U Move Super Sports literally drops the player into a series of madcap sporting scenarios.

Spectral vs. Generation cover21 Years Ago

Spectral vs. Generation

ArcadeWorldwide

The fate of a land rests in the hands of fearless fighters, united in their quest to control the power of the Earth temple. Master devastating attacks and vanquish your enemies in this epic struggle between good and evil!

Pop'n Music Fever! cover20 Years Ago

Pop'n Music Fever!

ArcadeJapan

The 14th game in the Pop'n Music franchise.

Shining Wind cover19 Years Ago

Shining Wind

PS2Japan

Shining Wind is the sequel to Shining Tears. The main characters from Shining Tears appear in Shining Wind as well.

Disney's Chicken Little: Ace in Action cover19 Years Ago

Disney's Chicken Little: Ace in Action

PortNintendo DSAustralia

Inspired by the "superhero movie within the movie" finale of Walt Disney Pictures' film "Chicken Little," Disney"s Chicken Little: Ace in Action features Ace, the superhero alter ego of Chicken Little, and the Hollywood versions of his misf…

Flips: More Bloody Horowitz cover16 Years Ago

Flips: More Bloody Horowitz

Nintendo DSiNorth America

From the Flips ebook series

A Topsy Turvy Life: Turvy Drops cover16 Years Ago

A Topsy Turvy Life: Turvy Drops

Nintendo DSiNorth America

Turn the Nintendo DSi system upside down and draw blocks on the touch screen to fill spaces in this topsy-turvy take on puzzle games.

Looksley's Line Up cover16 Years Ago

Looksley's Line Up

Nintendo DSiNorth America

Looksley's Line Up uses the DSi's camera to track the user's face in order to shift the 3D perspective to reveal hidden pictures.

Das Geheimnis der Happy Hippo-Insel cover25 Years Ago

Das Geheimnis der Happy Hippo-Insel

Game Boy ColorEurope

Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2002 cover25 Years Ago

Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2002

PlayStationWorldwide

Pro Tennis WTA Tour cover24 Years Ago

Pro Tennis WTA Tour

PortGame Boy AdvanceWorldwide

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

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