ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
October 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1468 releases
7 Years AgoAkash: Path of the Five
PCMacWorldwide
Akash: Path of the Five is a professionally-produced, fully voiced otome visual novel. Players will become Aurora, a member of a magical race of elementals.
7 Years AgoDull Grey
Web browserWorldwide
Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. It tells about mother and son, free will and the search for happiness among foggy mountains and grey pipes.
6 Years AgoLiege Dragon
PS4SwitchNorth AmericaEurope
Find the Dragon Tools of legend to stand up to the Evil Dragon in a fantasy RPG!
6 Years AgoDragon Lapis
PCWorldwide
A thousand years ago, a great battle ensued between two dragons, one gold and the other silver, where they were sealed away. However, the real tale begins many centuries later after the Silver Dragon reawakens, and launches an assault on a frontier village in the far north.
6 Years AgoEscape Until Friday
PCWorldwide
You have been kidnapped by some maniac, who holds you in his basement. You have to get out of the kidnapper's house at any cost until Friday.
5 Years AgoDoom & Destiny Worlds
SwitchNorth AmericaEurope
When Destiny calls for help, but no one answers, only four nerds can save the day. Armed with hand crafted weapons and bad jokes, can the four nerds survive, defeat three almighty tyrants and find their way home?
5 Years AgoMary Skelter Finale
PS4Europe
Mary Skelter Finale is a first-person dungeon crawling RPG with grid-based movement and a turn-based combat system. Characters are based on fairy tales but the game has a job system allowing for skill customization.
5 Years AgoEkstase
PCMacWorldwide
Amazing techno beats and beautiful visuals set the stage for a game that honors the long forgotten falling block puzzle genre. Ekstase is easy to pick up and sink many hours into.
3 Years AgoIron Wings
PS4North AmericaEurope
World War 2 Intense action-adventure air combat game Player takes on the role of the two pilots, Jack and Amelia, as they attempt to take down Nazi aerial menace across a rich campaign of missions, each with numerous objectives and enemies as well as side objectives.
1 Year AgoMagical Delicacy
PS4PS5Worldwide
A wholesome pixel art platformer. Cook magical delicacies from a vast collection of ingredients in your own shop. Explore an unfamiliar town and deliver tasty treats to the townsfolk.
This yearRetrospace
PCPS5Xbox Series X|SSwitch 2Worldwide
A space station has been swallowed by a black hole, mutants roaming the corridors, and everything seems to have gone mad around you.
50 Years AgoFlying Fortress
ArcadeWorldwide
A black and white B-17 Bomber simulation from Electra.
50 Years Ago
50 Years AgoAmazing Maze
ArcadeNorth America
The Amazing Maze Game is an arcade game developed by Midway, released in 1976. The object of the game is for the player to find their way out of a challenging maze before their opponent.
48 Years AgoFootball
Bally AstrocadeNorth America
Two or four players can compete head-to-head in Football for the Bally Astrocade.
46 Years AgoHeli Fire
ArcadeWorldwide
HeliFire is a Nintendo developed and published arcade video game released in America and Japan in 1980. The game gives you the unfortunate task of controlling a submarine that is under fire by a host of helicopters and even marine wildlife.
45 Years AgoSabotage
Apple IINorth America
You are in control of a stationary gun turrent at the bottom of the screen. Planes drop bombs and paratroopers jump out of helicopters which you have to shoot. Every hit gains you points - every shot you fire looses you points.
45 Years AgoMemory
PortElektor TV Games ComputerWorldwide
A simple match 2 for the Elektor TV games Computer
44 Years AgoBeauty and the Beast
IntellivisionNorth America
Horrible Hank has grabbed Tiny Mabel and climbed the old Mutton Building. Only Bashful Buford can save her. Help him scale the building - but watch out for those rolling boulders! birds and bats swoop down on Buford, and he leaps over scurrying rats.
44 Years AgoP.T. Barnum's Acrobats
Odyssey 2 / Videopac G7000Worldwide
P.T. BARNUM'S ACROBATS! (1 or 2 players at a time) SINGLE PLAYER VERSIONS Press 0 on the numeric section of the keyboard. You are under the Big Top at the Ringling Bros.
43 Years AgoRealSports Baseball
PortAtari 5200North America
Atari 5200 port of RealSports Baseball.
43 Years AgoKagirinaki Tatakai
Sharp X1Japan
An early run & gun shooter designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa in the summer of 1983 and published by Enix in October 1983.
43 Years AgoMisty
PC-88Japan
You are a high school student. One day your classmate Miyuki suddenly loses his memory. An investigation leads to his girlfriend who suspiciously disappeared a year ago.
43 Years AgoQuasimodo
C64North America
Stop enemies from scaling the castle walls and ring lots of bells in this platformer from Synapse.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.