On This Day in Gaming: November 27

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

November 27

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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

Kingyo Chuuihou! 2 Gyopi-chan wo Sagase! cover34 Years Ago

Kingyo Chuuihou! 2 Gyopi-chan wo Sagase!

Game BoyJapan

Kingyo Chuuihou! 2 Gyopi-chan wo Sagase! is the second puzzle game in the Goldfish Warning! series.

Lemmings cover34 Years Ago

Lemmings

PortPC Engine CDJapan

This port features the same game on the surface, but both the graphics and sounds have been redone from scratch for this console. While the result doesn't change much, the added UI elements and higher quality music do make this port feel different.

Ashita no Joe cover34 Years Ago

Ashita no Joe

Super FamicomJapan

The player stars as Joe Yabuki, an aspiring boxer, as he goes from an unknown kid from the rough side of town to a boxing champion.

Out of This World cover34 Years Ago

Out of This World

PortSuper FamicomJapan

The version of Out of This World (Another World) released for the SNES and Apple IIgs was ported by Interplay. This version was made more difficult, including more enemies, since it was normal for console games to be difficult in order to take longer to beat.

Deadly Moves cover34 Years Ago

Deadly Moves

Super FamicomJapan

Unlike most other fighting games, you can control only one character (Joe) in single-player mode. In two-player mode, you can choose to fight as any of the seven available fighters, and also choose a scenery.

Solar Eclipse cover31 Years Ago

Solar Eclipse

SaturnNorth America

Solar Eclipse is a 3D shooter that takes place on and near the many moons of Saturn. You are a hot-shot pilot with a troubled past. You've been re-assigned to a new squadron aboard a Tomlinson-class carrier.

Gan-gan Gan-chan cover31 Years Ago

Gan-gan Gan-chan

Super FamicomJapan

GanGan GanChan is an Action game, developed by Team Mental Care and published by Magifact, which was released in Japan in 1995.

Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari cover29 Years Ago

Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari

SaturnJapan

Tales of the Seven Wind Islands is a fantasy adventure game exclusively for the SEGA Saturn by Enix.

Sega Touring Car Championship cover29 Years Ago

Sega Touring Car Championship

SaturnJapan

Sega Touring Car Championship is a Sega Model 2C CRX arcade racing game developed by Sega AM5 in 1996. It is similar to Sega Rally Championship in design, but uses touring cars instead of rally cars.

Bubble Symphony cover29 Years Ago

Bubble Symphony

SaturnJapan

Bub and Bob are once again transformed into bubble dragons and have to climb up the Rainbow Tower to fight the Super Dark Great Dragon, while collecting potions to turn back into human form.

Gadget: Past as Future cover29 Years Ago

Gadget: Past as Future

Expanded editionPlayStationJapan

An enhanced re-release for Windows, Mac, and PlayStation, Gadget: Past as Future, was later released on four CDs in 1997 by Cryo Interactive for Windows, Macintosh, and the PlayStation home console.

Hybrid cover29 Years Ago

Hybrid

PlayStationJapan

Hybrid is a 3D first-person shooter with a futuristic high-tech theme. Earth is on the the brink of collapse after years of fighting against an alien invasion, and you are among those who remain to fight. Your next mission is to strike a compound deep within the mountains.

Private Idol Disc Vol. 8: Furukawa Emiko cover29 Years Ago

Private Idol Disc Vol. 8: Furukawa Emiko

SaturnJapan

Idol Digital Photobook released exclusively in Japan for Sega Saturn. Includes a Q&A interview, a mini-game, and a quiz about Furukawa Emiko.

R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital cover29 Years Ago

R?MJ: The Mystery Hospital

SaturnJapan

R?MJ is an interactive horror game with full voice-acting and movement like Kenji Eno's D, where a video plays to show the player's selected movement. The events of R?MJ take place in the summer of 1999. Hajime and Tomowo rush to the S.T.G.

Gaia Breeder cover29 Years Ago

Gaia Breeder

SaturnJapan

Gaia Breeder is a life-simulation sandbox game where the player attempts to recreate a natural environment. In the 23rd century, a meteor has wiped out all wild animal life on Earth, and humanity has decided to attempt to restore it using science.

Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2 cover29 Years Ago

Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2

PlayStationJapan

Midnight Run: Road Fighter 2 is an arcade racing game and the sequel to Road Fighter. It was released worldwide in arcades in March 1996, and later on the PlayStation but only in Japan and Europe.

Guntu Western Front June, 1944 cover29 Years Ago

Guntu Western Front June, 1944

PlayStationJapan

A World War II light-gun game

RPG Maker cover29 Years Ago

RPG Maker

PlayStationJapan

In RPG Maker, players with absolutely no programming experience or prior game-production skills can make their own role-playing quests and save them to the PlayStation memory card for themselves or a friend to enjoy.

Burger Burger cover29 Years Ago

Burger Burger

PlayStationJapan

Time to sell burgers!

Nobunaga's Ambition: Shouseiroku cover29 Years Ago

Nobunaga's Ambition: Shouseiroku

PlayStationJapan

Nobunaga's Ambition (Nobunaga no Yabou) is a turn-based strategy video game series first released in Japan in 1983. It is a series of loosely adapted historical simulations produced by the Japanese video game developer Koei.

Blue Breaker: Ken Yorimo Hohoemi wo cover29 Years Ago

Blue Breaker: Ken Yorimo Hohoemi wo

SaturnJapan

The world of Blue Breaker is called "the path in the middle of empty sky": floating islands connected with each other by bridges. It is the tradition of the people in this world that a fighter's full initiation can be completed only when he finds his true love and marries her.

Crime Crackers 2 cover29 Years Ago

Crime Crackers 2

PlayStationJapan

Crime Crackers 2 is the sequel to Crime Crackers, and is again a first-person action game in a similar style.

Dragon Beat: Legend of Pinball cover29 Years Ago

Dragon Beat: Legend of Pinball

PlayStationJapan

A pinball game from Map Japan featuring three distinct tables: Castle, Old Town and Legend.

Dare Devil Derby 3D cover29 Years Ago

Dare Devil Derby 3D

PlayStationJapan

Dare Devil Derby 3D places you in a variety of races and includes 30 tracks through 10 different environments. There are a total of eight characters to play as, each with their own various traits.

Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.

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