ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1229 releases
33 Years AgoPathways into Darkness
MacWorldwide
A first-person shooter paired with RPG elements with a few survival elements added in. You start exploring a pyramid after getting separated from the rest of your team.
33 Years AgoHell Cab
PCMacNorth America
Hell Cab is a first person point and click adventure game that starts by taking the wrong cab in NYC. Stan is the cab driver; he brings the protagonist back in time to solve puzzles.
33 Years AgoJeopardy!
Game GearNorth America
Jeopardy! is a conversion of the long-running TV quiz show where the answers are given and contestants must provide the questions.
33 Years AgoWheel of Fortune
PortGame GearNorth America
America's favorite game show is now bigger and better than ever on the Sega Game Gear. This all-new version features the beautiful Vanna White, and over 4500 new puzzles. Choose the contestant you want to be, play against the computer, or against up to two friends.
32 Years AgoSonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld
Sega PicoNorth America
Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameworld is a game developed by Aspect Co. Ltd for the Sega Pico. It was released in Japan in August 1994.
32 Years AgoWrestle Angels 3
FM TownsJapan
Wrestle Angels 3 is, like its predecessors in the series, a turn-based wrestling-themed game. The player takes the role of the manager of a new company that represents and trains young wrestlers, guiding them to participate in an all-female league.
32 Years AgoXaxa Machine
MacJapan
A video drug-like CD-ROM by Hideki Nakazawa, a leading expert in stupid CG. It's like watching the psychedelic screen move with a uni-uni, but this CD-ROM has a stupid mode that allows the poop to uni-uni and play with a special stupid brush.
31 Years AgoEastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou
MacPCNorth America
Eastern Mind is a point-and-click adventure game about a man named Rin who has lost his soul. Borrowing his friend's soul for 49 days, he goes on a quest to a location known as Tong Nou to die and be reincarnated nine times in order to recover his soul.
31 Years AgoHover!
PCNorth America
Hover! was a video game that was included on CD-ROM versions of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. It was a showcase for the advanced multimedia capabilities available on personal computers at the time.
29 Years AgoMeat Puppet
PCNorth America
Lotos Abstraction. A Beautiful woman with a keen mind and a big gun, living in a destroyed 21st century. Someone has taken her memory and her freedom. Now she must kill or be killed, while trying to find whoever or whatever is controlling her.
29 Years AgoNobunaga's Ambition: Shouseiroku with Power Up Kit
Expanded editionPCJapan
"NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Shoseiroku with Power Up Kit" is an expanded version of "NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Shoseiroku," which was released in 1997 as the 7th game in the series.
28 Years AgoM. I. A. - Missing In Action
PCWorldwide
Missing In Action is a 3D action helicopter game that takes place during the Vietnam War. The game features a single player campaign which is divided into 26 missions, which are briefed by full motion videos with real life actors.
28 Years AgoV2000
PCNorth America
V2000 is a 3D space shooter based on the '80s game Virus. Aliens are using a virus to corrupt and possess many creatures from different worlds by opening up links between the worlds they are trying to conquer. From many of these links emerged the hives.
28 Years AgoRockett's Secret Invitation
MacPCWorldwide
The third game in the Rockett Movado series of visual novels.
27 Years AgoTanktics
PCWorldwide
Tanktics was a game developed by DMA Design in 1999 for the PC. It was published by Interplay. The objective of the game is to progress through four time periods, building and controlling tanks from that period to fight the "evil black tanks" from a more advanced period.
27 Years AgoTrump Collection: Bottom Up Teki Trump Seikatsu
WonderSwanWorldwide
Trump Collection: Bottom Up Teki Trump Seikatsu is a Miscellaneous game, developed and published by Bottom Up, which was released in Japan in 1999.
27 Years AgoMaisy's Playhouse
PCMacWorldwide
In this game the player is introduced to three rooms in Maisy's house; in each room are many clickable animations to explore with the mouse - drawers and cabinets open to reveal items, water runs and the toilet flushes, toys move and lights click on and off.
26 Years AgoVaboom!
VectrexWorldwide
Catch the falling bombs! (And you thought your job was dangerous!).
26 Years AgoVectrace
VectrexWorldwide
Weave your way through the other race cars and toward the checkered flag!
24 Years AgoAge of Sail II: Privateer's Bounty
PCEurope
Lead the wooden fleets of the world's most powerful nautical powers into battle in the new standard in naval combat simulation, Age of Sail II - Privateer's Bounty.
24 Years Ago
24 Years AgoGaea Fallen
PCWorldwide
A point-and-click adventure game with 45 puzzle-filled scenes. The world of Gaea is falling into darkness. Eve, a seamstress who loves leg-of-rat, really doesn't want to take on the daunting task of saving the world.
24 Years AgoDoukeshi Satsujin Jiken
PCJapan
Doukeshi Satsujin Jiken is a graphic text adventure game in which you take the role of a skilled detective from Scotland Yard who must explore the circus and nearby town searching for evidence and questioning suspects to solve this case.
23 Years AgoCare Bears: Care-a-lot Jamboree
PCMacNorth America
Care Bears: Care-a-lot Jamboree is an educational game. Includes 10 Care Bears and 8 games.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.