ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 9
The games released on this day in gaming history.
701 releases
3 Years AgoUFO: Unidentified Falling Objects
SwitchPCWorldwide
Unidentified Falling Objects is a unique mashup of platforming and puzzle destroying gameplay. Players are dropped into the puzzle where they must dodge the falling obstacles and destroy blocks to make big combos.
2 Years AgoThe Crush House
PCWorldwide
Film and produce 1999's hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.
2 Years AgoMedieval Defenders
Xbox OneWorldwide
Defend your ancestral castle – show the invader who the master is! Build towers, save money, train your spells, and your enemy will be vanquished. The middle ages was a dark time.
38 Years AgoThe Scheme
PC-88Japan
The Scheme is an action RPG released by Bothtec (later known as Quest) for the PC-88 in 1988. It features Metroidvania-style open-world exploration, side-scrolling run & gun shooter combat, and chiptune music by Yuzo Koshiro.
36 Years AgoStunt Track Racer
Amstrad CPCWorldwide
Stunt Track Racer is a racing game released in 1989. It features a unique blend of racing and stunt gameplay, where players race single-seat cars on elevated, rollercoaster-like tracks with jumps and steep drops.
36 Years AgoRobotz
Atari ST/STEEurope
The levels are presented as single screens, with deadly walls in them: touching a stone instantly kills the player, which is also happening on a single hit from any of the robots shots.
35 Years Ago
30 Years AgoBishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: Tokimeki Party
Sega PicoJapan
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars: Tokimeki Paati is a video game released for the Sega Pico by Bandai solely in Japan, in August 1996.
30 Years AgoGirigiri Telephone Call
PC-98DOSJapan
A collection of three stories with telephone call as theme.
28 Years AgoFriday: Death to Arthur Yahtzee
PCWorldwide
This is graphical point-and-click adventure with simple original engine. The game, like most 3rd Person adventure games, consists of action buttons which you use to interact with your surrounding. Simple as it is, it has your standard Look, Use, Talk, Inventory features.
27 Years AgoMath Blaster Ages 6-8
PCWorldwide
Eight absorbing activities with five levels of content introduce addition, subtraction, and sorting of simple and complex number sets.
25 Years AgoAkagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri
PCJapan
Akagawa Jirou: Majo-tachi no Nemuri ("Jirou Akagawa's The Sleep of Witches") is a visual novel adventure game with a supernatural murder mystery theme. As with Chunsoft's Sound Novel series, it features a series of static photographs with Japanese text overlaid on top.
24 Years AgoPichu Bros. Mini
Pokémon miniJapan
Pichu Bros. Mini is a collection of several mini games, similar to Pokémon Party Mini.
24 Years AgoThe Great War: 1914
PCWorldwide
You play as a French soldier on the front line. The Germans really want to throw your battalion back and brutally attack your positions every day. One quiet night, the protagonist sensed something amiss...
24 Years AgoBokura ga Koko ni Iru Fushigi.
PCJapan
Shinichi Manabe attends Seiryo High School. His father is a writer. 5 years ago, Shinichi went to see a mysterious mirage with Mio Fukamachi and Tamako Fujiomi.
24 Years AgoPrince of Qin
PCChina
Action-RPG set in the last years of the Qin Dynasty in China 2,200 years ago -- a real historical setting with a number of characters who actually lived at the time. The game balances team-fighting, with up to five heroes per team, with various strategies and tactics.
24 Years AgoSnowboard Park Tycoon
PCWorldwide
Snowboard Park Tycoon is more of a first-person snowboarding action game than a tycoon game. Players have the option to jump right into the action with the "Action" mode, or complete challenges on various unlockable slopes in the "Career" mode.
21 Years AgoClassic Compendium
GizmondoEurope
A puzzle game which contains a collection of five board games: chess, checkers, backgammon, Reversi, and Four in a Line.
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19 Years AgoWild Arms XF
PSPJapan
Wild Arms XF is a 2D turn-based tactical role-playing game, creating a gameplay experience somewhere between Dungeons & Dragons and chess.
19 Years AgoPaRappa the Rapper
RemasterPSPAustralia
The rapping pup, PaRappa, dreams of impressing his friend, the beautiful Sunny Funny, and going out on a date with her. But what he lacks is confidence - help PaRappa rap his way through learning Kung Fu, a driving test, cooking and more, all in order to get the girl.
19 Years AgoTime's Tear
PCWorldwide
Kazuhiko and his brother Hideo are orphans living under the supervision of their caretaker. Then, one night, Kazuhiko has a dream. Will it help him pass a test in school?
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.