On This Day in Gaming: June 30

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

June 30

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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

Grand Theft Auto cover28 Years Ago

Grand Theft Auto

PlayStationNorth America

Grand Theft Auto is the first game in the Grand Theft Auto series and a sandbox-crime game published by Rockstar Games. The original Grand Theft Auto is made up of a series of levels each set in one of the three cities in the game.

New Super Mario Bros. cover20 Years Ago

New Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo DSEurope

New Super Mario Bros. is a side-scrolling 2.5D action-adventure platformer game for the Nintendo DS, starring Mario and Luigi. The game features a solo story mode with Mario or Luigi, a two-player wireless game Mario Vs. Luigi, as well as a minigame mode for up to four players.

FlatOut 2 cover20 Years Ago

FlatOut 2

PS2Europe

Experience the drive of your life as you throw yourself around on and off the track causing fences to shatter, tyre walls explode, water tanks and barrels fly across the track into other cars.

Star Fox 64 cover29 Years Ago

Star Fox 64

Nintendo 64North America

The update to the 16-bit Super NES title continues the original's on-rails 3D shooting action on the Nintendo 64.

Pokémon Snap cover27 Years Ago

Pokémon Snap

Nintendo 64North America

Traverse various areas and take photographs of different types of Pokémon by discovering their secrets.

Driver cover27 Years Ago

Driver

PlayStationNorth America

The player is John Tanner, an undercover cop who try to take advantage of his own excellent driving skill in order to infiltrate a criminal organization.

Perfect Dark cover26 Years Ago

Perfect Dark

Nintendo 64Europe

Perfect Dark is a first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. It is considered the spiritual successor to Rare's earlier first-person shooter GoldenEye 007, with which it shares many gameplay features.

Disney's Tarzan cover27 Years Ago

Disney's Tarzan

PlayStationNorth America

The player takes control of the eponymous Tarzan who ultimately has to save his home, the jungle, from Clayton, a hunter for gorillas. Tarzan starts up as a child learning the skills of the apes. The game has 3 difficulties: easy, medium and hard.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cover17 Years Ago

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

PS2North America

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince features the exploration of Hogwarts and casting spells on objects around the school, similar to its predecessor. The game also includes multiplayer games, classes, different times of day, Quidditch, Wizard Duels and Potion making.

Flashback: The Quest for Identity cover33 Years Ago

Flashback: The Quest for Identity

Mega Drive / GenesisBrazil

Throughout the 20th century, an unprecedented political and economic crisis afflicted Earth, leading to the systematic disabling of it's programme to conquer outer space through lack of funding.

Garou: Mark of the Wolves cover21 Years Ago

Garou: Mark of the Wolves

PS2Japan

If you thought you'd seen the last of the incredible Garou: Mark of The Wolves series, you were sorely mistaken. Join classic brawlers and fresh finds (there are 11 new additions in all) for the fighting experience of the decade.

Columns cover36 Years Ago

Columns

Mega Drive / GenesisJapan

Go back in time to a bygone civilization: the ancient world of Phoenicia. There you will play a simple and captivating game where sparkling, rainbow-coloured jewels drop one after another.

Tomba! cover28 Years Ago

Tomba!

PlayStationNorth America

Tomba! is a side-scrolling platformer in which players control Tomba, a wild boy on the search for his grandfather's bangle that was stolen by some evil pigs.

Ape Escape 2 cover23 Years Ago

Ape Escape 2

PS2North America

Ape Escape 2 is the sequel to Ape Escape. In this platform game it's your goal to catch all the apes jumping, walking and flying around the diverse levels the game has to offer.

Secret Files: Tunguska cover16 Years Ago

Secret Files: Tunguska

Nintendo DSWorldwide

Unravel one of the greatest mysteries of our time! On the 30th June 1908 an explosion with the combined energy of 2000 Hiroshima bombs rocked the region of Tunguska in Central Siberia and felled over 6,000 square km of trees.

Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 cover33 Years Ago

Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2

PC EngineJapan

Rainbow Islands is a 1987 arcade game developed and published by Taito. The arcade version was licensed to Romstar for North American manufacturing and distribution.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie cover31 Years Ago

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

SNESNorth America

The Super NES version of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is a side-scrolling action game similar to the previous SNES game based on the series. The game can be played by one or two players with six available characters.

Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad cover21 Years Ago

Conflict: Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad

PS2Japan

Take charge of the most feared special operations forces in the world: the elite British SAS or the US Delta Force squads. You're the best trained, best equipped and best organised. The area that has been assigned to you is yours for the taking.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs cover17 Years Ago

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

PS2Worldwide

Based on the computer-animated movie starring the voices of Ray Romano and John Leguizamo, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a 3D platform game that has you controlling multiple prehistoric protagonists across more than 15 levels of lighthearted action.

Air Combat cover31 Years Ago

Air Combat

PlayStationJapan

The first game of the Ace Combat series. Combat flight simulator in which you play a mercenary pilot who hires his combat skills to several corporations, governments, etc. in order to get cash for weapons & upgrades.

Trauma Center: Under the Knife cover21 Years Ago

Trauma Center: Under the Knife

Nintendo DSWorldwide

Take your Nintendo DS into the Operating Room! Trauma Center: Under the Knife lets YOU play doctor, performing increasingly complex surgeries.

Mortal Kombat: Special Forces cover26 Years Ago

Mortal Kombat: Special Forces

PlayStationEuropeNorth America

Take on the role of Mortal Kombat character Jax, as you descend into the realm of Mortal Kombat in search of arch- villain, Kano. As you make your way through the game, you will delve deeper into one of the most interesting and enigmatic stories in the Mortal Kombat universe.

Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution cover23 Years Ago

Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution

Expanded editionPS2Europe

Evolution was an updated version of Virtua Fighter 4. The game introduced two new characters and adjusted every other character as well. The two new characters were the Judoka-assassin, Goh Hinogami and the Muay Thai boxer Brad Burns.

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

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