On This Day in Gaming: July 28

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

July 28

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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

Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling: Toukon Sanjushi cover35 Years Ago

Shin Nippon Pro Wrestling: Toukon Sanjushi

Game BoyJapan

The handheld fighting spirit of New Japan Pro Wrestling right in your hands!

3x3 Eyes: Seima Kourin-den cover34 Years Ago

3x3 Eyes: Seima Kourin-den

Super FamicomJapan

The first of two Role playing games based on the 3x3 Eyes manga series. Set in around volume 7, where the giant Taisui appears in Tokyo. The game features a very unconventional system where if even one of the player characters dies it will result in a Game Over.

Super Ultra Baseball 2 cover32 Years Ago

Super Ultra Baseball 2

Super FamicomJapan

Super Ultra Baseball 2 was released in Japan only, as the fourth game in the Ultra Baseball series (known as the Baseball Simulator series in North America) These baseball titles included some form of "Super League" where pitchers and batters would have special abilities.

Carrier Aces cover31 Years Ago

Carrier Aces

SNESWorldwide

Carrier Aces is a 3rd person flight simulator that takes place during World War II. The game is also entirely split screen, with a second player or the computer opponent taking the controls on the second half of the secreen.

Yumimi Mix Remix cover31 Years Ago

Yumimi Mix Remix

Expanded editionSaturnJapan

Yumimi Mix Remix is a Sega Saturn re-release of Yumimi Mix.

Mahjong Hanjouki cover31 Years Ago

Mahjong Hanjouki

Super FamicomJapan

Mahjong Hanjouki is a Miscellaneous game, published by Nichibutsu, which was released in Japan in 1995.

Shuushoku Game cover31 Years Ago

Shuushoku Game

Super FamicomJapan

Shuushoku Game (Trendy Drama) is a Japan-exclusive video game based around the Japanese sub-culture of Japanese drama, "Trendy Drama" (hence the name), which is a form of drama typically targeting young children and young adults and is base…

Ultra League: Moero! Soccer Daikessen!! cover31 Years Ago

Ultra League: Moero! Soccer Daikessen!!

Super FamicomJapan

Ultra League: Moero! Soccer Daikessen!! (lit. Ultra League Moero! Roll-up Soccer!!) is a 1995 Japan-exclusive soccer-based video game released for the Super Famicom. The game features the Japanese super hero Ultraman, among other monsters and aliens.

Hebereke's Popoitto cover31 Years Ago

Hebereke's Popoitto

SNESJapan

Hebereke's Popoitto is a Tetris variant. The goal in each level is to remove the blocks already on the playfield, representing characters from the franchise.

Tengai Makyou: Dennou Karakuri Kakutou-den cover31 Years Ago

Tengai Makyou: Dennou Karakuri Kakutou-den

PC-FXJapan

Tengai Makyou: Dennou Karakuri Kakutouden is a fighting game and the sixth game in the Tengai Makyou series.

Ultima: The Savage Empire cover31 Years Ago

Ultima: The Savage Empire

PortSuper FamicomJapan

Ultima: The Savage Empire (Ultima: Kyouryuu Teikoku) is a port of Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire for the SNES released in 1995 by ORIGIN Systems (and Pony Canyon).

Bass Masters Classic cover31 Years Ago

Bass Masters Classic

Super FamicomJapan

This game consists of five 3-day tournaments at four lakes. The mission is to catch as much large bass as possible. Once the day of the fishing tournament is over, the five largest bass that were caught get weighed and are compared to the other fisherman's catches.

Space Invaders: The Original Game cover31 Years Ago

Space Invaders: The Original Game

PortPC Engine CDJapan

This version of Space Invaders is based on the 1994 arcade game Space Invaders DX but lacks the parody mode of that game.

Emerald Dragon cover31 Years Ago

Emerald Dragon

Super FamicomJapan

Emerald Dragon is a Role-Playing game, developed by Alfa System and published by Media Works, which was released in Japan in 1995.

Night Striker cover31 Years Ago

Night Striker

PortPlayStationJapan

Saturn/PlayStation Port of "Night Striker".

Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash cover31 Years Ago

Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash

Neo GeoNeo Geo MVSWorldwideJapanNorth America

An arcade fighting game spin-off of an RPG series set in a fantasized feudal Japan.

Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu '95: Kaimaku-ban cover31 Years Ago

Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu '95: Kaimaku-ban

Expanded editionSaturnJapan

Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu '95: Kaimaku-ban is a baseball game for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn released as part of Konami's Pawapuro series. It is an expanded version of Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu '95 on the PlayStation.

MLB Pennant Race cover30 Years Ago

MLB Pennant Race

PlayStationWorldwide

MLB PENNANT RACE offers players a choice between an Arcade mode that allows players to throw pitches unhindered by the laws of physics, or Sim mode where everything is more realistic.

Tryrush Deppy cover30 Years Ago

Tryrush Deppy

SaturnJapan

Tryrush Deppy is a 2D platformer game. The player controls a cartoony-looking taxi cab and has to get past various levels mostly set in urban environments.

Traverse: Starlight & Prairie cover30 Years Ago

Traverse: Starlight & Prairie

Super FamicomJapan

Traverse: Starlight & Prairie is a Role-Playing game, developed by Pandora Box and published by Banpresto, which was released in Japan in 1996.

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed cover30 Years Ago

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed

PortSaturnWorldwide

Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, later released in Japan as Over Drivin’, is a 1994 racing video game first released on the 3DO and then ported to MS-DOS, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It is the first installment released in the Need for Speed series.

Xtreme Sports cover26 Years Ago

Xtreme Sports

Game Boy ColorWorldwide

In the Game Boy Color version of Xtreme Sports, players compete against more than 200 computer-controlled opponents on 25 different tracks in sports such as street luge, skateboarding, inline skating, surfing and skyboarding.

Sakura Taisen GB: Geki Hanagumi Nyuutai! cover26 Years Ago

Sakura Taisen GB: Geki Hanagumi Nyuutai!

Game Boy ColorJapan

You have been ordered to a probational enrollment of 1 month after meeting Imperial Combat Revue's Vice Captain Ayame Fujieda, who has been searching all over Japan to find people with great spiritual power.

Doraemon 3: Nobita no Machi SOS! cover26 Years Ago

Doraemon 3: Nobita no Machi SOS!

Nintendo 64Japan

Doraemon 3: Nobita no Machi SOS! is an action game for the Nintendo 64. It was released only in Japan in 2000.

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

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