ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
December 31
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1077 releases
39 Years AgoMask
ZX SpectrumEurope
MASK is a vertically-viewed 2D game in which the player controls the Thunderhawk vehicle.
39 Years AgoLand of Neverwhere
C64Europe
Eight children who became stranded in the hidden silos around the seas of Home Base Terror must be rescued in this 2D horizontal scrolling shoot'em up published by The Power House.
39 Years AgoDisposable Heroes
ZX SpectrumEurope
The Mega Garbage Beings are on a rampage again! Enter the caverns beneath the city to battle with weird and wonderful monsters before taking on a psychic confrontation that will leave your mind reeling!
39 Years AgoCusterd's Quest
ZX SpectrumEurope
A text adventure game developed by Craig Richard Davies with the Quill Adventure System and published by Alpha Omega Software for ZX Spectrum.
39 Years AgoKing Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu
MSXJapan
A giant ape King Kong, which was shot and fell off the World Trade Center tower, appears to be alive, but is in coma for 10 years and desperately needs a blood transfusion in order to have an artificial heart implanted.
39 Years AgoPhantom
Atari 8-bitEurope
A Gauntlet like action game in which the player is taking the role of an absent minded professor of astrophysics and must destroy ghosts, monsters and transporters that live in the four buildings that the professor has been asked to visit.
39 Years AgoDead Zone
C64Europe
A platform and ladders game published by The Power House for the Commodore 64.
39 Years AgoFire Quest
C64Europe
A single screen platformer written by Chris Morris and published by The Edge for the Commodore 64.
39 Years AgoKu Gyoku Den
FM-7PC-88Japan
An overhead run-and-gun in which the player assumes the role of a monk. Navigating around the land and shooting monsters in eight directions while collecting coins and power-ups, players must defeat nine evil spirits to obtain the legendary gems in their possession.
38 Years AgoSword Slayer
C64Amstrad CPCEuropeAustralia
You are Spartacus and you are a Gladiator planning to rebel against the Roman Empire by escaping from slavery and releasing all the other slaves from the Roman Crassus.
38 Years Ago
38 Years AgoPowerama
ZX SpectrumEurope
A vertically scrolling shoot'em up developed by David Crummack and Craig Galley, also known as Magnum Force. A fleet of colossal alien ships are heading towards Earth and the only one who can stop them is the player in his humble scout ship.
38 Years AgoNorman
ZX SpectrumEurope
A action game developed by Grant Jaquest and published by The Power House for the ZX Spectrum. Norman has to free-fall through the domain of the Cubitrons, destroying all the energy cubes as he falls.
38 Years AgoAsterix
ZX SpectrumAmstrad CPCEurope
Asterix for the Atari 2600 was the first video game that starred the popular French cartoon character.
38 Years AgoFrightmare
C64Europe
A multi-screen platform game developed by Floppy Electronics Ltd. for Commodore 64, PC and ZX Spectrum.
38 Years AgoSuper Tact
C64Europe
Implementation of a board game for the Commodore 64 published by The Power House.
38 Years AgoGalaxia 7
C64Europe
A mixture of a platformer and a flying jetpack shoot'em up in which the player has to collect four objects on each planet and than land on the surface to complete the game.
38 Years AgoScary Tales
Amstrad CPCEurope
A text adventure game published by The Power House for the Amstrad CPC and written by Richard Robinson using Incentive's Graphic Adventure Creator.
38 Years AgoAstroball
Amstrad CPCEurope
A single-screen action game in which the player controlls a perpetual moving ball and collects items by simply touching them. Written by Frederik Akinlawon and published by The Power House for the Amstrad CPC.
38 Years AgoSpace Jack
ZX SpectrumEurope
A combination of space shoot'em up and platforms&ladders, developed by Black Knight Software and published by The Power House for the ZX Spectrum.
38 Years AgoMetropolis
Amstrad CPCEurope
A action-adventure published by The Power House in which Moonboots, the lunar explorer, is stranded in Metropolis, and must find and refuel his spaceship, so that he may return home on the moon.
38 Years AgoDervish
Amstrad CPCEurope
A action maze game developed by John R. Keneally and published by The Power House for Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.
38 Years AgoCastlevania II: Simon's Quest
PortHandheldNorth America
A Tiger Electronics handheld interpretation of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. It is similar to the Simon's Quest LCD watch game, but has greater depth.
38 Years AgoSilver Ghost
Sharp X1Japan
A unique hybrid RTS/Action/RPG game first released in 1988. It was the first game by Kure Software Koubou and itnroduced their eventually popular Multiple Character gameplay system that they went on to use in many later games.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.