On This Day in Gaming: June 6

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

June 6

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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

Impact Racing cover29 Years Ago

Impact Racing

SaturnJapan

Part automotive racing, part shooter, Impact Racing lets you choose from five different cars which vary in degrees of speed, power, engine size, payload, armor strength, and grip.

Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray cover23 Years Ago

Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray

PS2Europe

Wakeboarding is part of Activision's line of Extreme Sports titles.

AND 1 Streetball cover20 Years Ago

AND 1 Streetball

PS2Worldwide

And 1 Streetball brings the flashy street-basketball style from the And 1 Mixtape tour to your home video game consoles. You can create a player from the ground up and take him through the trials of making the And 1 team.

Cars cover20 Years Ago

Cars

PortNintendo DSNorth America

Nintendo DS port of Cars.

Cars cover20 Years Ago

Cars

PortGame Boy AdvanceNorth America

Cars is a racing game based on the animated movie of the same name. The player takes the role of Lightning McQueen in his quest to win the Piston Cup.

Touch Down Fever cover39 Years Ago

Touch Down Fever

ArcadeWorldwide

A close-up overhead-view football game with an energetic soundtrack. The CPU can be configured to operate as a two-player upright or as a four player stand-up cocktail.

MX5000 cover39 Years Ago

MX5000

ArcadeWorldwide

MX5000 is a scrolling shooter arcade game released by Konami in 1987. The goal for the player is to fly in the latest fighter aircraft of the Roufanis territory and fight with the Desalis empire which is trying to dominate the world.

Toki no Senshi: Chrono Soldier cover39 Years Ago

Toki no Senshi: Chrono Soldier

ArcadeJapan

The mid-eighties saw the inception of a genre known as run-and-guns, which were popularized by the likes of Capcom's Commando and SNK's Ikari Warriors.

TH Strikes Back cover34 Years Ago

TH Strikes Back

ArcadeWorldwide

In this sequel, you control a poweful ESP Rambo-like character, throwing sonic rays from his hands and destroying mutated enemies. This game is Thunder Hoop II.

Twin Squash cover34 Years Ago

Twin Squash

ArcadeWorldwide

An excellent ball and paddle game from Sega.

Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon cover32 Years Ago

Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon

SNESWorldwide

Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is an edutainment game that highlights the effects of smoking on the human body. Each stage, in which a miniaturized Rex Ronan moves through the body of smoke company sales rep Jake Westboro, features numerous facts about tobacco smoke inhalation.

Trap Gunner: Countdown to Oblivion cover30 Years Ago

Trap Gunner: Countdown to Oblivion

PlayStationEurope

The purpose of the game to run around various levels and to set traps, which are invisible to your opponent. Players can shoot at one another while setting traps. Each character has a different melee weapon with unique attributes.

Quantum Gate cover29 Years Ago

Quantum Gate

PlayStationJapan

Quantum gate is an exciting visual novel with government conspiracies, Space travel and deadly alien bugs!

Bounty Sword First cover29 Years Ago

Bounty Sword First

PlayStationJapan

Bounty Sword is a tactical strategy role-playing game set in a fictional futuristic world with a power struggle looming between Europea and the Kingdom of Rheinmetall.

Soul Edge Vs. Samurai Spirits cover29 Years Ago

Soul Edge Vs. Samurai Spirits

SNESWorldwide

Soul Edge VS Samurai Spirits is an unlicensed fighting game released on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis as a follow up to both Soul Calibur and Samurai Spirits II. It which was presumably developed by the same company as they use the same exact fighting engine.

Zoku Hatsukoi Monogatari ~Shuugaku Ryokou~ cover29 Years Ago

Zoku Hatsukoi Monogatari ~Shuugaku Ryokou~

PC-FXJapan

Zoku Hatsukoi Monogatari: Shūgaku Ryokō is a mixture of adventure and "love simulation" - more specifically, first love. The player takes the role of a male student and can choose any time period between ground school to college.

The Game Paradise: Master of Shooting cover29 Years Ago

The Game Paradise: Master of Shooting

SaturnJapan

The Game Paradise: Master of Shooting is a vertically scrolling shoot ’em up developed and published by Jaleco.

Chou Jikuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboete Imasuka cover29 Years Ago

Chou Jikuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboete Imasuka

SaturnJapan

Choujikuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboete Imasu ka is a side-scrolling 2D shooter that ties into the Macross franchise. In the game, the player takes the control of main protagonist Hikaru Ichijyo, as he battles Zentradi units on each stage.

Ooumi Nobunaga Den: Geten II cover29 Years Ago

Ooumi Nobunaga Den: Geten II

PlayStationJapan

Taikai Nobunagaden - Ge Ten II is a typical strategy game in which the player has the final goal of unificate Japan, the game used the common menu commands and during each of turn the player can recruiting new soldiers, training the army, buying weapons, set trade ruotes, etc.

Newman/Haas Racing cover28 Years Ago

Newman/Haas Racing

PlayStationWorldwide

Newman/Haas presents racing in its purest form - no power-ups, shortcuts, or weapons here - and playing it requires equal parts patience, skill, and raw endurance.

Gauntlet Legends cover26 Years Ago

Gauntlet Legends

Expanded editionDreamcastNorth America

The third and final console version of Gauntlet Legends, released in June of 2000. This version is most notable for being a near-direct arcade port, as the only console port to feature the four original Realms from the arcade original.

The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise cover26 Years Ago

The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise

Neo Geo Pocket ColorJapan

The King of Fighters: Battle de Paradise is a minigame collection, similar to Mario Party or Sonic Shuffle, based loosely on The King of Fighters '99.

Eldorado Gate Volume 5 cover25 Years Ago

Eldorado Gate Volume 5

DreamcastJapan

El Dorado Gate is console gaming's first serial RPG series, where each Dreamcast GD-ROM contains 3 seperate (though interrelated) adventures, each telling a story of one of the series' 12 characters.

Shaman King: Spirit of Shamans cover24 Years Ago

Shaman King: Spirit of Shamans

PlayStationWorldwide

Shaman King: Spirit of Shamans is based on the anime, in which you will complete the first half of the overall story featured within the anime/manga series. This is the first fighting game featured within the series.

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

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