On This Day in Gaming: November 5

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

November 5

The games released on this day in gaming history.

100 releases · Retro platforms, 1985–2010 · show all platforms and years

Dyna Brothers 2 cover33 Years Ago

Dyna Brothers 2

Mega Drive / GenesisWorldwide

Dyna Brothers 2 (ダイナブラザース2) is the sequel to Dyna Brothers, and is a Sega Mega Drive simulation game released exclusively in Japan. CRI also released an expanded version on the Japanese Sega Channel, Dyna Brothers 2: Sega Channel Special (ダイナブラザーズ2スペシャル).

Tecmo Secret of the Stars cover33 Years Ago

Tecmo Secret of the Stars

Super FamicomJapan

In this game you wander around the world map. visiting towns and dungeons, and fighting monsters in turn-based combat viewed from first-person perspective, much like in Dragon Quest games.

Boxing Legends of the Ring cover33 Years Ago

Boxing Legends of the Ring

Super FamicomJapan

Boxing Legends of the Ring is a boxing game, developed by Sculptured Software and published by Electro Brain. During fights, it is possible to keep track of the participating boxers' wellbeing by observing the small portraits of the fighters' faces at the top of the screen.

Hyper Wars cover32 Years Ago

Hyper Wars

PC Engine CDJapan

Hyper Wars is primarily a managerial simulation; robot combat itself is calculated depending on how the player created and maintained his or her robots. The player controls a manager of a team which competes in a league, complete with schedules, stadiums, etc.

Zoop cover31 Years Ago

Zoop

PortGame BoyNorth America

Zoop is a fast-paced puzzle game in which the player eliminates colored shapes that are approaching his alter ego, another colored shape, before they reach the top, somewhat similarly to Tetris.

Tennis Arena cover29 Years Ago

Tennis Arena

PlayStationEurope

With no stat tweaking and no licenses, Tennis Arena is arcade-style tennis at its most fundamental. What you have here is single-match or tournament play for up to four players with wacky characters and a few different courts to play on.

Real Mahjong Adventure Umi he: Summer Waltz cover28 Years Ago

Real Mahjong Adventure Umi he: Summer Waltz

SaturnJapan

Real Mahjong Adventure: Umi he Summer Waltz is a video game published in 1998 on SEGA Saturn by SETA Corporation. It's an adventure game, set in an anime / manga and visual novel themes.

Zeus: Carnage Heart Second cover28 Years Ago

Zeus: Carnage Heart Second

PlayStationJapan

The sequel to Carnage Heart, a mecha action-strategy game from Artdink. Design an unmanned mobile weapon overkill engine, direct the airframe designed by himself and lead the battle to victory.

Dokapon! Ikari no Tetsuken cover28 Years Ago

Dokapon! Ikari no Tetsuken

PlayStationJapan

Dokapon makes his debut on PlayStation with a board game with RPG elements. The gameplay is the usual board game with a top 2d view and a 3d battle sequences. The battle parts use the usual combat system of a turn based rpg, select the proper action in each turn.

Hatsukoi Valentine Special cover28 Years Ago

Hatsukoi Valentine Special

Expanded editionPlayStationJapan

In Hatsukoi Valentine Special the game features a new character, a new menu, a small improvement in the gameplay, new sequences, etc.

Pro Mahjong Tsuwamono 64 Jansou Battle ni Chousen cover27 Years Ago

Pro Mahjong Tsuwamono 64 Jansou Battle ni Chousen

Nintendo 64Japan

Pro Mahjong Tsuwamono 64 Jansou Battle ni Chousen is a Mahjong game developed by Culture Brain, released for the Nintendo 64 only in Japan in 1999.

64 Hanafuda: Tenshi no Yakusoku cover27 Years Ago

64 Hanafuda: Tenshi no Yakusoku

Nintendo 64Japan

64 Hanafuda: Tenshi no Yakusoku is a hanafuda card game released exclusively for the Nintendo 64 in Japan.

Columns GB: Tezuka Osamu Characters cover27 Years Ago

Columns GB: Tezuka Osamu Characters

Game Boy ColorJapan

Columns GB: Tezuka Osamu Characters is a japanese only Game Boy Color puzzle game.

Road Rash cover26 Years Ago

Road Rash

PortGame Boy ColorNorth America

The game developed by 3d6 Games is technically a direct port of Road Rash II from the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. It keeps the exact same levels, adapted music, and gameplay mechanics of the second installment.

Jet Coaster Dream 2 cover26 Years Ago

Jet Coaster Dream 2

DreamcastJapan

A sequel to "Jet Coaster Dream", known as Coaster Works outside of Japan, "Jet Coaster Dream 2" expands the roller coaster building aspects of the first game to include more management of the park itself.

Victorious Boxers: Ippo's Road to Glory cover25 Years Ago

Victorious Boxers: Ippo's Road to Glory

PS2North America

Tape up your hands, pull on your gloves and get ready to go toe-to-toe with some of the most accomplished boxers you're ever likely to meet. Victorious Boxers places you directly in the ring as Ippo Makunouchi on his quest to become the champion.

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! cover24 Years Ago

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket!

PortGame Boy AdvanceNorth America

Zapper is a top-down hopping adventure featuring a cricket with the power to zap enemies. As Zapper, you traverse levels with the ultimate goal of saving your brother Zipper from the clutches of the thieving magpie, Maggie.

Robot Alchemic Drive cover24 Years Ago

Robot Alchemic Drive

PS2North America

Robot Alchemic Driver is a Big Robot/Monster fight in a modern city with a twist. There is a story and training mode and a 2 player vs. mode. In a nut shell, alien's attack the last city on earth.

Winnie the Pooh: Kindergarten cover24 Years Ago

Winnie the Pooh: Kindergarten

PlayStationNorth America

It's time for kindergarten with Pooh! After watching Christopher Robin head off for a day at school, Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and friends decide they want to go to school, too.

Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand cover24 Years Ago

Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand

Game Boy AdvanceNorth America

Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand is an Adventure game, developed and published by Konami, which was released in 2002.

NHL FaceOff 2003 cover24 Years Ago

NHL FaceOff 2003

PS2North America

NHL FaceOff 2003 is an ice hockey video game made by SolWorks and published by Sony Computer Entertainment of America, released on the PlayStation 2. It features then-Colorado Avalanche defenceman Rob Blake on its cover.

Winnie the Pooh: Preschool cover24 Years Ago

Winnie the Pooh: Preschool

PlayStationNorth America

Disney's Winnie the Pooh Preschool is a point and click educational game based on characters and material created by the author/illustrator team of A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard.

Disney Sports Soccer cover24 Years Ago

Disney Sports Soccer

PortGame Boy AdvanceNorth America

The GBA port of Disney Sports Soccer. Konami has come up with Disney Sports Soccer where all the Disney stars suit up to have some football fun. Play it on the Game Boy Advance and have a whale of a time.

Dr. Seuss': The Cat in the Hat cover23 Years Ago

Dr. Seuss': The Cat in the Hat

PortGame Boy AdvanceNorth America

A port of Dr. Seuss’: The Cat in the Hat for Game Boy Advance.

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