ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
December 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
318 releases · Retro platforms, 1985–2010 · show all platforms and years
38 Years AgoPlatoon
PortNESNorth America
The NES port of Platoon. The film Platoon featured a squad of five soldiers on their mission for the US Army in Vietnam.
37 Years AgoAdventure Quiz: Capcom World
ArcadeWorldwide
This is a adventure game by rolling dice to advance and answer quiz.
37 Years AgoAll American Football
ArcadeWorldwide
An American football game up to four players with all the features of "John Elway's Team Quarterback" and much more : improved graphics, sideline shop, etc.
37 Years AgoMr. Heli
PC EngineJapan
It is your mission, 'Mr. Heli' our hero, to unmask 'The Muddy' who is hiding deep underground and rescue the planet. Clear all the zones including floating green islands, moving rock beds, mysterious underground temples, and much more!
37 Years AgoChampionship Bowling
PortNESNorth America
The object of the game is the same as a regular game of bowling; score the highest to win. The game utilizes factors such as left or right-handedness, spin, power and weight of the ball which can affect the outcome of a throw.
37 Years AgoMirai Senshi: Lios
FamicomJapan
Future Wars: Lios is a turn-based strategy game developed and published by Pack-In-Video, the same developers who brought us Die Hard (NES). In this game, you play as Cecilia and her army of robots. You must make it to Goinkia's castle and stop him from taking over.
37 Years AgoTao
FamicomJapan
Tao is a quirky role-playing game with heavy religious themes. The game concerns a spiritual wanderer who is attempting to avert the end of days predicted by Nostradamus in a near future which has already been wracked with disaster.
36 Years AgoGals Panic
ArcadeWorldwide
Somehow ending last in this lengthy article, Kaneko's "Gals Panic!" is probably the second most well-known adult cabinet after "Pocket Gal", and the most successful "Qix" clone ever produced.
36 Years AgoPunk Shot
ArcadeWorldwide
Punk Shot takes up to four players to downtown NYC for some two-on-two street basketball, no referee, no rules.
36 Years AgoCyber Tank
ArcadeWorldwide
Cyber Tank is a would-be dual screen on-rails shooter from Coreland. Due to poor feedback during the location test phase of development, the game was not put into further production.
36 Years AgoNemo
ArcadeJapan
One night, as Nemo sleeps, he is visited in a dream by the King of Slumberland, who invites Nemo to come and play with the King's daughter, the Princess.
36 Years AgoKa-Blooey
PortSuper FamicomJapan
You play using either an overhead or isometric view. To complete each level the avatar has to destroy all bombs on a level. Bombs come in different sizes and it is only possible to ignite the smallest kind without dying.
35 Years AgoIdol Hanafuda Fan Club
PC EngineWorldwide
In this game you play Hanafuda against girls and make them strip.
35 Years AgoSel Feena
ArcadeWorldwide
At a time when people were being terrorized by monsters, Selfeena, a little witch, wizard, and magic creature and her little dragon Rich Rich embarked on an adventure to reclaim the treasure stolen from the people by the monsters.
35 Years AgoChina Town
ArcadeWorldwide
A Japan-exclusive falling-block tile-matching puzzle arcade game by Data East, where players form melds of mahjong tiles and attempt to form high-scoring mahjong hands.
35 Years AgoRad Rally
ArcadeWorldwide
Sega followed up on the success of Rad Mobile by making a sequel, Rad Rally for the arcades in 1991, which included several gameplay changes.
35 Years AgoBouncing Ball
ArcadeWorldwide
A puzzle game where you drop balls in a certain order to create a sum of numbers.
35 Years AgoSpace Shuttle Project
NESWorldwide
The object of this video game is to successfully launch and fly one of NASA's historic Space Shuttles. Gameplay is composed of several different types of missions, each broken up into short mini-games.
35 Years AgoQuiz Rouka ni Tatte Nasai!
ArcadeJapan
Quiz Rouka ni Tattenasai! is an arcade game revolving around solving quizzes.
35 Years AgoDick Tracy
Game BoyNorth America
Dick Tracy for Game Boy is a sequel to the NES game of the same name. It features a new case for Tracy, when Big Boy breaks out of prison and plots his revenge.
35 Years AgoFaceball 2000
PortGame BoyNorth America
Faceball 2000 is a first-person shooter. You control a H.A.P.P.Y.F.A.C.E., or Holographically Assisted Physical Pattern Yielded For Active Computerized Embarkation. The graphics consist of flat shaded corridors.
35 Years AgoShogi no Hoshi
Mega Drive / GenesisJapan
Shogi no Hoshi is a 1991 game for the Sega Mega Drive by Home Data. The game is an implementation of the Japanese board game Shogi.
34 Years Ago
34 Years AgoX-Zone
SNESNorth America
Compond X's powerful bio-computer has begun to malfunction and "X-Tra", aka the external threat recognition assault system, is firing on anything that moves. In fact, the computer has accessed the nation's nuclear weapon countdown systems for a retaliatory strike.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.