ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
July 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1038 releases
49 Years AgoVideocart-12: Baseball
Fairchild Channel FWorldwide
One player takes to the field, the other grabs a bat and steps up to the plate. The pitcher can throw fast, slow, and some wicked curves even at the last moment.
49 Years AgoVideocart-13: Robot War, Torpedo Alley
Fairchild Channel FWorldwide
This cart contains two different games. The first game is Robot War. It takes place on a space station.
49 Years AgoVideocart-9: Drag Strip
Fairchild Channel FNorth America
This drag racing simulator makes use of the Channel F's special controllers. While twisting the joystick's head to the left or right controls the engine throttle, the stick movement itself is used to shift gears in a realistic H-pattern.
46 Years AgoAstro Invader
ArcadeNorth America
The player controls a small spaceship is at the bottom of the screen. Like most Space Invaders-type games of the period, the ship can move left and right (but not up or down), and can fire one bullet at a time. The ship may not fire again until its previous shot has detonated.
44 Years AgoChisholm Trail
Texas Instruments TI-99Worldwide
Drive your cattle along the famous Chisholm Trail in this top-down arcade-style game. Use the keyboard or joysticks to maneuver your steer around the playing field.
44 Years AgoArtillery
DOSNorth America
An artillery game for two human players, who get placed on both sides of a randomly-selected landscape and proceed to take turns lobbing high explosives at each other.
44 Years AgoEyes
ArcadeNorth America
The player controls an eyeball in a maze. As in Pac-Man the goal is to collect all of the dots to advance to next level, but in Eyes the player shoots the dots rather than eating them. Computer-controlled eyes chase and shoot at the player.
43 Years AgoMiner 2049er Volume II
Atari 2600Worldwide
"Bounty Bob" continues his mining adventure in the year 2049 with three all new screens. Help him claim all of the various mine stations. The three new mine screens will greatly challenge your gaming abilities.
43 Years AgoWords-Attack
Atari 2600Worldwide
Extremely rare Sancho prototype. Only one cartridge is known to exist. The game seems to be unfinished, because it still has over 1K of free space left that could have been used for a valid 'word pool'.
43 Years AgoRocky Super Action Boxing
ColecoVisionWorldwide
Rocky Super Action Boxing is the first licensed video game based on the popular Rocky film series. The game is based on Rocky III and was designed by Coleco.
43 Years AgoTranz Am
ZX SpectrumEurope
Tranz Am is a ZX Spectrum video game released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. The game was one of the very few Spectrum games also available in ROM format for use with the Interface 2.
43 Years AgoSuper Action Baseball
ColecoVisionWorldwide
Colecovision's only baseball game and first of the Super Action series, Super Action Baseball was specially designed to work with the Super Action controllers.
42 Years AgoHigh Way Star
MSXWorldwide
With its multi-level intersections and 90 degree turns, this is a future country town. In your "Tomato" car you must obey the directions shown on the map and clear as many white flags as possible. But be careful!
42 Years AgoSaimazoom
ZX SpectrumEurope
Video adventure where the protagonist, Johny Jones, has to recover four sack of coffee in a jungle full of perils. We have to collect various items that will allow us to access new areas where one of these coffee sacks may be.
42 Years AgoTrack & Field 1
PortMSXJapan
The heat of competition right in a computer game! Use the special Hyper Shot controller and see how high you score!
42 Years Ago
42 Years AgoBasic Nyuumon
MSXJapan
A collection of four simple BASIC games for the Super Cassette Vision.
42 Years AgoMr. Robot and His Robot Factory
FM-7Japan
Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory is a single-player platform game created for the Atari 8-bit family by Ron Rosen and ported to the Apple II and Commodore 64.
42 Years AgoUnder Southern Skies
Apple IINorth America
Simulates the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939.
42 Years AgoCastle Blackstar
C64Europe
You are sent by Lady Artemis to Castle Blackstar to recover an orb.
42 Years AgoSuper Action Football
ColecoVisionWorldwide
Another game in the Super Action series that makes use of Coleco's Super Action Controllers. Play against the computer or go head-to-head with a friend over 4 quarters of football action.
41 Years AgoBatten Tanuki no Daibouken
MSXWorldwide
Once upon a time, there was a village where only animals lived. One day, the Count Wolf came to this village, cast a spell on the animals, and took them all to the wolf castle. The only one who survived was an old lady rabbit who was sick.
41 Years AgoHarry Fox
Sharp X1Japan
One day, a fox kit living in the Romus Forest contracts the apparently uncurable "Romus disease", leaving his mother distraught. She remembers her grandmother's story of a cure hidden deep within the forest, a piece of fried tofu found at a shrine.
41 Years AgoThe Rocky Horror Show Computer Game
Amstrad CPCEurope
The Rocky Horror Show Computer Game is a 1985 video game for the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC created by the CRL Group PLC.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.