ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
September 21
The games released on this day in gaming history.
78 releases · Retro platforms, 1985–2010 · show all platforms and years
22 Years AgoStar Wars: Battlefront
PS2North America
Star Wars: Battlefront is the first in the Star Wars: Battlefront series and is a third/first-person shooter video game based around battles featured in the Star Wars movies.
22 Years AgoKatamari Damacy
PS2North America
The King of All Cosmos accidentally destroyed the stars and—having recovered—wants the prince to rebuild them. Unfortunately the prince stands a little less than half a foot tall, so recreating the stars will require some effort.
25 Years AgoDark Cloud
PS2Europe
One of the PS2's first RPGs, Dark Cloud is a title that challenges players to not only strategise, battle and solve puzzles, but also to create geographical landscapes using the new Georama system.
32 Years AgoKirby's Dream Course
RemakeSuper FamicomJapan
Kirby's Dream Course is a 1994 miniature golf video game developed by HAL Laboratory and Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
20 Years AgoCommandos: Strike Force
PS2Japan
Commandos: Strike Force is a first-person shooter video game and the fifth installment of the critically acclaimed Commandos series. It is developed by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive.
22 Years AgoX-Men Legends
PS2North America
X-Men enter the realm of role-playing games with an intense story, superhero action, and multiplayer modes. The story in X-Men Legends begins when the X-Men learn that Magneto has devised a plan to give mutants the power to reign supreme over humans.
36 Years AgoNorth & South
FamicomJapan
Your objective is ensure victory for your side by eliminating all the enemy armies. You will be controlling armies across all the combat zones of the Civil War. You may respect history or not, as you like.
25 Years AgoPitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Game Boy AdvanceEurope
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is a side-scrolling action game where players assume the role of adventurer Pitfall Harry Jr. as he searches for his father, Pitfall Harry. The game features various environments such as Mayan jungles, waterfalls, and deserted mines.
20 Years AgoAce Combat Zero: The Belkan War
PS2Australia
The sixth installment in the Ace Combat series explores the Belkan War, a devastating conflict alluded to in Ace Combat 5.
25 Years AgoX-Men: Mutant Academy 2
PlayStationEurope
X-Men: Mutant Academy 2 is a PlayStation video game, the sequel to X-Men: Mutant Academy. Both feature the X-Men in a 3-D fighting arena similar to Mortal Kombat 4.
22 Years AgoMonster Hunter
PS2North America
Monster Hunter is an online action-hunting game by CAPCOM for the PlayStation 2 released on March 11th, 2004 in Japan, and September 21st, 2004 in North America. The game is a fantasy hunting simulator filled with many deadly monsters.
20 Years AgoStar Fox Command
Nintendo DSAustralia
Star Fox Command lets you hop into your fight through a unique branching storyline of missions, all rendered in gorgeous 3-D. This game brings a whole new strategic element to the series, with a commander's view of the mission.
33 Years AgoFantastic Dizzy
Mega Drive / GenesisNorth America
Dizzy is an egg living in a world of magic and fantasy. The basic concept of the game is to move around the world, finding various items and collectibles, and to use them in the right locations.
19 Years AgoWarriors Orochi
PS2Europe
Without warning, the venomous Serpent King Orochi descended from the heavens.
26 Years AgoPokémon Puzzle Challenge
Game Boy ColorJapan
In a rising pit of colored blocks, it's your task to continuously eliminate these tiles by switching two tiles' positions on the horizontal row. When three or more tiles link up in a up/down or left/right fashion, they disappear.
22 Years AgoMega Man X: Command Mission
PS2North America
Mega Man X: Command Mission, known as Rockman X Command Mission in Japan, is a spin-off game in the Mega Man X series. It was released in 2004 on both the PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo GameCube, making it the second-to-last game in the Mega Man X series to be released.
36 Years AgoDisney's DuckTales
PortGame BoyJapan
DuckTales is a platform game developed and published by Capcom and based on the Disney animated TV series of the same name. It was first released in North America for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989 and was later ported to the Game Boy in 1990.
22 Years AgoDance Dance Revolution Extreme
PS2North America
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is a music video game by Konami and is the eighth release in the main Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) series.
24 Years AgoThe King of Fighters EX: Neo Blood
Game Boy AdvanceEurope
Invitations to the King of Fighters Tournament have been sent to the best fighters in the world by an unknown host. Despite suspicions of an evil scheme, the fighters are ready to enter the arena to determine who the true King of Fighters will be.
40 Years AgoWorld Grand Prix
Master SystemJapan
Feel the excitement of the starting line up and take in the atmosphere before letting your throttle unleash to send your formula one-style vehicle around the courses at incredible speeds!
19 Years AgoCake Mania
Nintendo DSEurope
Welcome to Cake Mania! Jill, our hero, has returned from culinary school, only to find her beloved grandparents' bakery closed down. Business has taken a drastic downturn because a new Mega-Mart store opened in the neighborhood.
22 Years AgoBlood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo
PS2North America
Blood Will Tell is based on the Japanese manga series Dororo, which was created by Osamu Tezuka. It concerns a hero named Hyakkimaru, who has had much of his body stolen by forty-eight fiends, and has prosthetic replacements.
16 Years AgoEtrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City
Nintendo DSNorth America
The embodiment of adventure and discovery in the purest sense, Etrian Odyssey III transports gamers to a sparkling oceanic paradise filled with atmospheric dungeons to chart and survey, vast watery expanses to sail across, and rumors of a sunken city to investigate.
33 Years AgoTetris 2
FamicomJapan
Unlike the original Tetris, Tetris 2 has you clearing the field of blocks in a different way. Each play field starts with different colored dots (in this case black, gray and white), with one of each color flashing.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.