On This Day in Gaming: December 23

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

December 23

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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Ukrainian Ninja cover12 Years Ago

Ukrainian Ninja

PCWorldwide

Ukrainian Ninja is a multiplayer platformer game for Windows. The Ninja shoots and slashes, using weapons sold by the trader to clear each world.

Resilience: Wave Survival cover11 Years Ago

Resilience: Wave Survival

PCWorldwide

Resilience: Wave Survival is a physics based endless wave survival shooter. Explore to Search for Weapons and Ammo to help Defeat the Enemies, better find food and water too if you want to Survive for longer, but Beware of the Tripods stalking the lands.

Bloody Zombies cover9 Years Ago

Bloody Zombies

SwitchWorldwide

Fight across the ruins of London using carefully refined Free-Form Combat, taking down a terrifying variety of mutated zombies with an expanding special move-set. Created for 1-4 players, for online and offline play, Bloody Zombies is also enhanced with HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

Mech Rage cover8 Years Ago

Mech Rage

SwitchNorth America

The aliens are coming! The life of your crew is in your hands. Can you defend your ship from the pesky invaders?

Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times cover7 Years Ago

Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times

SwitchNorth AmericaEurope

Dungeon adventures in the Warhammer World are back! In Warhammer Quest 2: The End Times, you will lead your warriors across a war torn land and into dungeons for wealth and glory! Swing swords, fire arrows and cast spells as you fight through the denizens of Chaos.

Drawngeon: Dungeons of Ink and Paper cover7 Years Ago

Drawngeon: Dungeons of Ink and Paper

SwitchEurope

Inkland - the hand-drawn unusual world. Reveal the secret of the Mysterious Tower in this old-school role-playing game with a first-person perspective, real-time combat and grid-based movement.

Season Match 3: Curse of the Witch Crow cover6 Years Ago

Season Match 3: Curse of the Witch Crow

SwitchNorth AmericaEurope

Enter a magical fairy-tale world and overcome the evil Crow Witch! After the Crow Witch captures the Months, the world may never see a New Year again!

Rigid Force Redux cover6 Years Ago

Rigid Force Redux

PS4Worldwide

Classic shoot'em up action in modern 3D! Blast off and take down hordes of infected aliens and dreadful machines programmed on waging an intergalactic war against mankind!

Solitaire 3D cover6 Years Ago

Solitaire 3D

Xbox OneNorth America

Enjoy over 100 different solitaire games (including all your favorites: Spider, Pyramid, FreeCell, Klondike, Tri-Peaks etc.), multiple card decks (including the unique 4 color card deck), online high scores, statistics, and much more.

Tomb Raider Reloaded cover6 Years Ago

Tomb Raider Reloaded

AndroidAsia

Tomb Raider Reloaded is a free-to-play arcade shooter developed by Emerald City Games and published by CDE Entertainment. It's based on the original CORE Design Tomb Raider games from the late 1990s, recreated in a new colorful art style and presented with a top-down perspective.

Kolumno cover6 Years Ago

Kolumno

SwitchEurope

Wait for the right moment and make the ball fall through the intricate columns. Does it seem easy for you? It isn’t!

Arcade Archives: Orius cover5 Years Ago

Arcade Archives: Orius

PortSwitchPS4North AmericaEuropeJapanAsia

Orius is a shooting game released by Konami in 1991. Pilot the cutting-edge fighter craft, Flintlock, and solve the mystery of what happened on planet E-Square. In this game, in addition to your usual shots, you can use the mysterious Flint life form for attack and defense.

Adventure Time: Finn and Jake's Epic Quest cover2 Years Ago

Adventure Time: Finn and Jake's Epic Quest

PCWeb browserWorldwide

Team up as Finn and Jake in a 3D adventure of epic proportions! The Land of Ooo has been transformed into a giant video game, and BMO has been kidnapped.

SpaceVenture cover1 Year Ago

SpaceVenture

PCWorldwide

A sci-fi comedy adventure game that combines interplanetary exploration, puzzle-solving, and space travel- not to mention “pant loads” of pop culture satire and some good, clean “potty” humor.

Stunt Man cover43 Years Ago

Stunt Man

Atari 2600North America

Stuntman is broken down into three timed stages. The first stage has the stuntman climbing ropes in order to get to a helicopter while also dodging flying birds.

The Old Village Story cover38 Years Ago

The Old Village Story

PC-98PC-88Japan

An adventure game developed by Enix that follows the stories of Shion and Lisa Lisa in a small village town.

Xevious: Fardraut Saga cover38 Years Ago

Xevious: Fardraut Saga

MSX2WorldwideJapan

A vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up in the Xevious franchise. Adds bosses, power-ups and a story to the Xevious model.

Gates of Zendocon cover37 Years Ago

Gates of Zendocon

LynxJapan

Gates of Zendocon is a side-scrolling shooter very similar to the original arcade shooter of this type, Scramble. Unlike Scramble, however, there are 51 game areas in total, but the player fights through a subset of them through branches, choosing the next area to visit.

First Queen cover37 Years Ago

First Queen

X68000Japan

First Queen is a Strategy game featuring artwork by Yoshitaka Amano. It was developed and published by Kure and released in Japan in 1988. It was ported to the SNES in 1994.

Zan: Kagerou no Toki cover37 Years Ago

Zan: Kagerou no Toki

X68000Japan

The first game in the Zan series.

I Will: The Story of London cover33 Years Ago

I Will: The Story of London

LaserActiveNorth America

I Will: The Story of London is an educational graphic adventure game based around full-motion video presentations on both the history of the British city of London and its various scenic points of interest.

Twisted: The Game Show cover32 Years Ago

Twisted: The Game Show

3DOJapan

Similar to the You Don't Know Jack series of games, Twisted: The Game Show is a trivia challenge game for up to 4 players. The game offers a humorous mix of live character video and computer graphics.

YuYu Hakusho cover32 Years Ago

YuYu Hakusho

3DOJapan

YuYu Hakusho is a fighting game based on the YuYu Hakusho anime. The player can choose from 15 characters, each of which has their own special and hyper moves. The animation for the characters was modeled by the animation studio Pierrot who also did the TV animation.

Bodyconscious Digital Rave! Part 1: Shinjuku & Takashi cover32 Years Ago

Bodyconscious Digital Rave! Part 1: Shinjuku & Takashi

3DOJapan

Bodyconscious Digital Rave! Part 1: Shinjuku & Takashi simulates the nightlife of Japan by taking you to the club scene where you can engage in simulated partying.

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

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