On This Day in Gaming: December 1

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

Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf cover28 Years Ago

Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf

PlayStationWorldwide

Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf is the fourth PlayStation golf title from Electronic Arts and first to promise you'll play 18 holes within 30 minutes.

Blitter Boy: Operation Monster Mall cover28 Years Ago

Blitter Boy: Operation Monster Mall

PlayStationEurope

Net Yaroze game by Chris Chadwick. Distributed through "Euro Demo 40" demo disc across Europe.

Mortal Kombat 4 cover28 Years Ago

Mortal Kombat 4

PortGame Boy ColorNorth America

Mortal Kombat 4 is 1 vs 1 fighting game, similar to the other Mortal Kombat games, but this is first game in series with 3D characters models. The player can choose from 15 different fighters at the start (and several unlockables later on).

Gekitou Power Modeller cover28 Years Ago

Gekitou Power Modeller

Game Boy ColorNorth America

School is over for you and your friend Louis. Summer vacation has begun, and Louis hears about an upcoming tournament involving modelers and is excited about his chances. He is dismayed, however, when he remembers that your allowance cannot cover the cost of a model.

L.A. Machineguns: Rage of the Machines cover28 Years Ago

L.A. Machineguns: Rage of the Machines

ArcadeWorldwide

In 2025, a militia of androids, who call themselves the "R.O.M." - "Rage Of the Machines", has suddenly materialized in Los Angeles.

Gex: Enter the Gecko cover28 Years Ago

Gex: Enter the Gecko

PortGame Boy ColorNorth America

A conversion of the 3D platform title, this game features all the same levels shrunk down onto the Game Boy Color screen.

Bubble 2000 cover28 Years Ago

Bubble 2000

ArcadeWorldwide

Adults Only. This is a Tetris type game that requires the player to shoot colored balloons at existing balloons on the screen with the object of matching colors. Once a level is cleared, a nude image of a woman will appear on the screen.

Virtua Striker 2 Version '99 cover28 Years Ago

Virtua Striker 2 Version '99

Expanded editionArcadeJapan

Virtua Striker 2 Version '99 is an expanded version of Virtua Striker 2 for Sega Model 3 arcade hardware. Version '99 adds a further three teams to the Version '98 roster, bringing the total to 29.

SpikeOut: Digital Battle Online cover28 Years Ago

SpikeOut: Digital Battle Online

ArcadeEurope

Spikeout: Digital Battle Online is a 3D beat 'em up video game developed by Sega-AM4 and published by Sega in 1998. An update, Spikeout: Final Edition, was released in 1999.

NCAA Final Four 2000 cover27 Years Ago

NCAA Final Four 2000

PlayStationWorldwide

Improving from last year?s mark NCAA? Final Four? 2000, once again, is the most complete NCAA basketball game of the year.

Captain Tomaday cover27 Years Ago

Captain Tomaday

ArcadeWorldwide

A comical vertically scrolling shoot'em up starring a mutated tomato who punches the enemy and can transform to other weird characters.

Cross Pang cover27 Years Ago

Cross Pang

ArcadeWorldwide

A brand new coin-op video amusement game the Cross Pang which more often called Toads’ Raid depicts a folk tale of an ancient kingdom clearing through national threat imposed by toadstools suddenly sprouted and proliferated rapidly over the kingdom disastrously.

Babe and Friends cover27 Years Ago

Babe and Friends

Game Boy ColorWorldwide

Puzzle fans that enjoyed the BABE movie series will find a lot to like here. BABE AND FRIENDS, a single-player puzzle game for Game Boy Color, has the little porcine hero guiding his herd through 40 levels that span such locations as the farm, the airport, and the city.

Soul Fighter cover27 Years Ago

Soul Fighter

DreamcastWorldwide

Pick the warrior, thief, or wizard, and fight through five huge levels, each with its own boss. Your main weapons are your fists, but you can pull out weapons for quick kills. You only get so many shots with your weapon before it breaks, though.

Godzilla: The Series cover27 Years Ago

Godzilla: The Series

Game Boy ColorNorth AmericaEurope

Godzilla: The Series is a shooter game developed by Crawfish Interactive and published by Crave for the Gameboy Color based on the Godzilla series. It is the prequel to Godzilla The Series: Monster Wars.

Picross NP Vol. 5 cover27 Years Ago

Picross NP Vol. 5

Super FamicomJapan

The fifth of a series of eight Picross puzzle games distributed over the Nintendo Power cart-writing service. This part includes puzzles featuring characters from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Golgo-13 cover27 Years Ago

Golgo-13

ArcadeJapan

An arcade lightgun game adaptation of the Japanese manga series Golgo 13 developed by Eighting/Raizing and published by Namco. The player takes on the role of the titular character Duke Togo, aka Golgo 13, a professional assassin.

Ghosts 'n Goblins cover27 Years Ago

Ghosts 'n Goblins

PortGame Boy ColorWorldwide

Ghosts 'n Goblins for the Game Boy Color is a port of the NES version of the game.

Rock Tris cover27 Years Ago

Rock Tris

ArcadeWorldwide

A tetris-style game to reveal sexy images. Rock Tris is heavily based on the 1991 Taiwan PC game "X Rock".

Cool Bricks cover27 Years Ago

Cool Bricks

Game Boy ColorEurope

Cool Bricks is a puzzle game that requires the player to use a bat to guide a ball to break bricks to progress.

The Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home cover27 Years Ago

The Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home

PlayStationEurope

The Dukes are back! Climb behind the wheel of the General Lee and tear through the hiills of Hazzard in the craziest, smash 'em up, drive like-a-maniac racing game you've ever played.

Marble Madness cover27 Years Ago

Marble Madness

PortGame Boy ColorNorth America

A port for Game Boy Color.

Disney's A Bug's Life: Active Play cover27 Years Ago

Disney's A Bug's Life: Active Play

PlayStationEurope

Laugh and play as you buzz through the fun-filled world of bugs. You'll be bug-eyed with excitement at all you can do as you scurry through this world of tiny creatures.

Gauntlet Legends cover27 Years Ago

Gauntlet Legends

PortNintendo 64Europe

The first console version of Gauntlet Legends, released in September of 1999. This game introduced an inventory system that allowed players to stock and activate items after they were obtained, with a few exceptions (Invulnerability and Anti-Death Halo).

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

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