ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
December 31
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1077 releases
39 Years AgoRe-Bounder
C64Europe
Bounder is back! Again your in control of a tennis ball, that bounces and bounces and bounces... This time you must collect smart bombs to finish the game.
39 Years AgoShadow Skimmer
Amstrad CPCEurope
A multi-directional shoot'em up in which the player tries to find the exit out of a giant automated spaceship by piloting the Shadow Skimmer over its surface.
39 Years AgoMonkey Academy
Atari 8-bitEurope
This platform game is about solving arithmetic problems. In the equation one number is missing, you 'll have to find the right number. This game is aimed at young children to help them learn arithmetic problem solving or playing with numbers.
39 Years AgoSqij!
ZX SpectrumEurope
Shmup maze game about a bird of prey in a post-apocalyptic society. Best known for its broken ZX Spectrum port, which cannot be played.
39 Years AgoOdd Ball
ZX SpectrumEurope
A platformer developed by Grant Jaquest and published by The Power House for the ZX Spectrum. The evil warlord Cyrus has planted 10 radio active containers around the world of Fantasia and Oddball is the only one with courage to serve his country.
39 Years AgoThe Bow
ZX SpectrumEurope
A first-person shooter published by The Power House and inspired by Exidy's arcade coin-op Crossbow. The player in the role of a crossbow archer has to protect his friends from a variety of perils and attacking enemies by shooting arrows at them.
39 Years AgoSky Runner
ZX SpectrumPCC64Europe
Sky Runner is a shoot'em up developed by Cascade Games. A Skimmer or a Skybike has to be flown over the surface of the fictional planet Naibmoloc and defence towers, armed enemy bikers and the Sky(a new drug)-producing harvesters have to be destroyed.
39 Years AgoWinter Wally
Atari 8-bitEurope
A single-screen platformer in which the player controlls the penguin Percy in his attempt to escape from an maze underground of ice caves he is trapped in. Published by Micro Design aka Solar Software for the Atari 8-bit computers.
39 Years AgoSuicide Run
Commodore 16Europe
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up in which the player flies a spaceship over the surface of Mars bombing and shooting the rockets and fuel dumps.
39 Years AgoSpace Freeks
Commodore 16Europe
A vertical-scrolling shoot'em up written by John P. Shay and published by Solar Software for the Commodore 16.
39 Years AgoAmstrad Shuffle Card Games
Amstrad CPCEurope
A collection of eight card games including games like the traditional game of patience or blackjack.
39 Years Ago
39 Years AgoCorridor Conflict
Amstrad CPCEurope
A mixture of a bidirectional, horizontal scrolling shoot'em up and a racing game where two players compete on a splitscreen with one player racing his spaceship above and one below.
39 Years AgoBarrier Reef
Amstrad CPCEurope
The player has to escape from the undersea world through a series of caverns in this action-adventure written by Barry Jones and published by The Power House for the Amstrad CPC.
39 Years AgoOids
C64Europe
Rescue the OIDS from the Fiendish Biocretes who are turning them into vending machines and household appliances!
39 Years AgoSplitz
Commodore 16Europe
A single screen platform and ladders game written by Gary Thomlinson and published by The Power House for the Commodore 16.
39 Years AgoOsmium
C64Europe
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Alastair Darren Watts and published by The Power House for the Commodore 64.
39 Years AgoMorphicle
C64Europe
The player has to destroy the bomb that is threating the earth in this action game written by Andreas Kemnitz and published by The Power House.
39 Years AgoI-Xera
C64Europe
The player, equipped with the latest military robot suit and weapon, has to collect four pieces of a logo in a soap-bubble factory in this flip-screen platformer written by Jason Kendall.
39 Years AgoDestruct
C64Europe
A horizontal scrolling shoot'em up written by Clark John Denham and published by The Power House for the Commodore 64. In a battle-armoured jet suit the player fends off enemy aircraft and guided missiles whilst avoiding deadly landscape features.
39 Years AgoBerks
Commodore 16Europe
Each territory must be cleared of the mindless Berks using the Terror Tank in this single screen shoot'em up written by Jon Williams.
39 Years AgoGunrunner
C64Europe
A Choplifter! variant with parallax scrolling written by Gavin Raeburn and published by The Power House for the Commodore 64.
39 Years AgoPower Plays
Amstrad CPCEurope
A compilation of eight games published by The Power House for various platforms.
39 Years AgoSlingshot
ZX SpectrumEurope
A shoot'em up developed by Stephen Cargill and published by The Power House for the ZX Spectrum. Player's task is to fly through the space, blast alien ships and meteorites, detect planets and destroy them.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.