ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
September 5
The games released on this day in gaming history.
49 releases · Retro platforms, 1985–2010 · show all platforms and years
18 Years AgoFinal Fantasy IV
RemakeNintendo DSEurope
FINAL FANTASY IV is a 3D remake of the classic Japanese RPG that was first released for SNES as FINAL FANTASY II in the North America.
35 Years AgoGolden Axe II
Mega Drive / GenesisBrazil
The Lord of Darkness, Dark Guld, has arisen again. Wielding the famous Golden Axe, he has destroyed entire countries with his evil clan, forcing the world into chaos.
20 Years AgoYakuza
PS2North America
Just as Kazuma, a former rising star in the Yakuza, emerges from prison after a murder cover-up, 10 billion yen vanishes from the Yakuza vault, forcing him once again into their brutal, lawless world.
31 Years AgoCastlevania: Dracula X
RemakeSNESNorth America
The Legend Returns... Rising up from his eternal sleep, Count Dracula is back again to battle the descendants of the great vampire-stalking Belmont family of the Castlevania series.
26 Years AgoHogs of War
PlayStationNorth America
Hogs of War is a turn-based tactics game where players take turns controlling individual members of their squad of hogs to engage in combat with the opposition, similar to Worms.
35 Years AgoQuackShot Starring Donald Duck
Mega Drive / GenesisBrazil
QuackShot starring Donald Duck is a steady Disney run-and-jump platformer, with a little puzzle-solving element. Characters are mostly based on Disney's cartoon series Duck Tales. Donald and his three nephews get their hands on a treasure map and set out to hunt the big prize.
19 Years AgoRogue Galaxy
PS2Europe
Rogue Galaxy is an action role playing game set in a futuristic fantasy universe, in which the player moves through a continuous environment with no load time between overworld exploration and battles.
29 Years AgoThe Lost World: Jurassic Park
PlayStationEurope
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is an action-adventure video game developed by DreamWorks Interactive and Appaloosa Interactive, and published by Electronic Arts and Sega for the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn, respectively, in 1997.
35 Years AgoMidnight Resistance
Mega Drive / GenesisBrazil
Midnight Resistance is a side-scrolling action shooting game produced by Data East for the arcades in 1989. The game was ported by Data East to the Sega Mega Drive in 1990 and by Ocean Software to various home computer platforms during the same year.
35 Years AgoMercs
Mega Drive / GenesisBrazil
The players are members of a covert counter-terrorist team of mercenaries known as the "Wolf Force". The aim of the game was to rescue the former President from rebels in the fictional African country of Zutula, which bears resemblance to the apartheid regime in South Africa.
35 Years AgoDecap Attack
PortMega Drive / GenesisBrazil
To help “pull things together,” the brilliant doctor Frank N. Stein carefully fashioned Chuck D.head from the leftover parts of some other people that we don’t talk about. Somehow he couldn’t quite get the head right – how many heads do people need again?
23 Years AgoChaos Legion
PS2Europe
The story of Chaos Legion is a gothic opera which begins November, 791 A.S. (Anno Satanis): The protagonist, Sieg Wahrheit, is a Knight of the Dark Glyphs who is on a quest under command of the Order of St.
35 Years AgoSuper Thunder Blade
PortMega Drive / GenesisBrazil
Super Thunder Blade is a shooter for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console, published by Sega.
31 Years AgoStreet Fighter: The Movie
PlayStationNorth AmericaEurope
Next-generation gaming and mega movie-based action collide in Street Fighter: The Movie! Street Fighter: The Movie. The ultimate street fighter begins...where the others left off!!!
21 Years AgoRadiata Stories
PS2North America
Radiata Stories is a fantasy role-playing game set in a world where humans and fairies have peacefully coexisted. Now a war has broken out, and you must guide two young protagonists in a mission to save Radiata from destruction.
24 Years AgoIkaruga
PortDreamcastJapan
In this vertical scrolling spaceship shooter, you control a ship that can change its polarity at will. As blue/white, the ship can easily destroy red/black enemies, and visa versa.
35 Years AgoJoe Montana Football
Mega Drive / GenesisBrazil
It's a snap! This is your chance to rub shoulder pads with Joe Montana, the man who led the "Team of the Eighties" to four Super Bowl Championships.
40 Years AgoSuper Pitfall
NESJapan
Pitfall Harry returns to adventuring in this "Super" sequel to Pitfall! and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns. Harry’s mission: to recover the famed Raj Diamond, and also to rescue his niece Rhonda and loyal lion sidekick, Quickclaw.
25 Years AgoTetris Worlds
PS2Worldwide
For over a decade, the Tetris series has made an appearance on every game system. Tetris Worlds continues that streak, bringing their distinct brand of simple, yet addictive gameplay to the current generation of systems.
18 Years AgoViva Piñata: Pocket Paradise
Nintendo DSEurope
In Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise, players will inherit a neglected garden on Pinata Island and turn it into a pinata paradise by tending to all aspects of cleaning the garden, growing and maintaining vegetation, caring for and breeding pinat…
30 Years Ago
25 Years AgoNFL QB Club 2002
PS2Worldwide
NFL QB Club 2002 is a football video game developed and published by Acclaim Entertainment under their Acclaim Sports banner. It is the final game in Acclaim's NFL Quarterback Club series.
39 Years AgoZoids: Chuuou Tairiku no Tatakai
FamicomJapan
Based on the popular Tomy/Hasbro toy license, Zoids: Chuuou Tairiku no Tatakai is an RPG/Shooter hybrid developed for the Famicom by the notorious Micronics.
37 Years AgoMickey Mouse
PortGame BoyJapan
Mickey Mouse is the second game in the Crazy Castle series. After losing the rights to Roger Rabbit, Kemco used other Disney characters that they had the rights to use at the time. Both of the Mickey Mouse games in the Crazy Castle series were released in Japan.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.