On This Day in Gaming: May 24

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

May 24

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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Punch Club cover8 Years Ago

Punch Club

SwitchWorldwideNorth America

Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon. Punch Club is a boxing tycoon management game with multiple branching story lines.

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters cover19 Years Ago

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters

PSPAustralia

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (known as Ratchet & Clank 5 in Japan) is a 2007 platformer video game developed by High Impact Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2.

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon cover8 Years Ago

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

Nintendo 3DSSwitchPCPS4PS VitaJapanWorldwide

“Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon” is packed with the retro charm that made the legendary 2D action games of the 80s so enjoyable.

System Shock cover30 Years Ago

System Shock

PC-98Japan

A seminal cyberpunk first-person exploratory adventure game with RPG elements in which, waking up in the Citadel Space Station, a lone hacker has to survive corrupted enemies and collect audio logs and equipment from former station workers…

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion cover4 Years Ago

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

iOSWorldwide

Avoid paying taxes, solve plantastic puzzles, harvest crops and battle massive beasts all in a journey to tear down a corrupt vegetable government!

Syberia 3 cover9 Years Ago

Syberia 3

MacWorldwide

Syberia 3 takes you inside an enchanting, mysterious universe full of life for you to explore in 3D. Plunged into the heart of a world inhabited by a cast of interesting characters, you'll discover and experience a fabulous tale as imagined by Benoit Sokal.

Cannon Fodder cover17 Years Ago

Cannon Fodder

PCWorldwide

Cannon Fodder is an action-strategy shoot 'em up game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive. The game is military-themed and based on shooting action but with a strategy game-style control system.

Flappy Bird cover13 Years Ago

Flappy Bird

iOSAndroidWorldwide

Flappy Bird is a 2013 mobile game developed by Vietnamese artist and programmer Dong Nguyen, under his game development company dotGEARS. The game is a side-scroller where players control a bird trying to fly between columns of green pipes without hitting them.

Claw cover28 Years Ago

Claw

PCJapan

Join forces with Captain Claw, the greatest cat pirate ever to challenge the Cocker Spaniard Armada! Embark on an epic quest to recover the lost gems of the Amulet of Nine Lives.

Not a Hero cover10 Years Ago

Not a Hero

Xbox OneWorldwide

Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.

Sid Meier's Colonization cover31 Years Ago

Sid Meier's Colonization

PCNorth America

The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. The treasures of an entire continent await you.

Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper cover17 Years Ago

Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper

PCXbox 360Europe

Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation in this adventure game. The famous detective chases against the most threatening serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.

Realm Royale Reforged cover7 Years Ago

Realm Royale Reforged

SwitchWorldwide

Join 20+ million players and experience a new kind of battle royale in Realm Royale Reforged! Choose your class, forge deadly weapons, and master powerful abilities to be the last champion standing.

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D cover13 Years Ago

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D

PortNintendo 3DSNorth AmericaEurope

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D offers over 70 levels of banana‑hoarding platform action starring Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight cover8 Years Ago

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight

PS4PS VitaJapan

Dancing game featuring characters from Persona 5.

N++ cover8 Years Ago

N++

SwitchWorldwide

N++ is a fast-paced, action-packed platformer set in the distant future. You play as a ninja, darting through obstacles, narrowly evading a slew of inadvertently homicidal enemy robots and collecting gold in a minimalist, sci-fi world.

Mappy cover35 Years Ago

Mappy

Game GearJapan

The player guides Mappy the police mouse through the mansion of the cats called Mewkies (Meowky in the U.S. version) to retrieve stolen goods. The player uses a left-right joystick to move Mappy and a single button to operate doors.

OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood cover10 Years Ago

OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood

Xbox OneWorldwide

Drop in to Olliwood and prepare for finger-flippin’ mayhem in this follow up to cult skateboarding smashOlliOlli.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night cover8 Years Ago

Persona 4: Dancing All Night

PS4Japan

Persona 4: Dancing All Night is a story-driven music game of the cult hit RPG Persona 4, developed by ATLUS. Replacing the RPG elements are dance battles that challenge players' dexterity and accuracy, as they tap out re-mixes of fan-favorite themes and brand new music tracks.

Pokémon: Magikarp Jump cover9 Years Ago

Pokémon: Magikarp Jump

AndroidiOSNorth America

Train your Magikarp to soar as high as possible in Pokémon Magikarp Jump! The lowly Magikarp now gets its time in the spotlight with this fun app for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Feed and develop your Magikarp to maximize the Pokémon's jump power to reach new heights.

Pokémon Community Game cover6 Years Ago

Pokémon Community Game

Web browserWorldwide

The Pokémon Community Game is a free to play extension for Twitch. Streamers who add this extension to their stream can have their chat catch, trade, and battle their favorite Pokémon.

60 Seconds! Reatomized cover5 Years Ago

60 Seconds! Reatomized

RemasterAndroidWorldwide

Dolores, Ted, Mary Jane and Timmy return to face the nuclear apocalypse in this new, remastered edition of the classic atomic adventure - 60 Seconds!

Kingdom Rush Origins cover3 Years Ago

Kingdom Rush Origins

Xbox OneNorth America

The third installment in the popular tower defense series Kingdom Rush.

Joust cover19 Years Ago

Joust

PS3North America

Joust is an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1982. It is a platform game that features two-dimensional (2D) graphics. The player uses a button and joystick to control a knight riding a flying ostrich.

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