ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
December 31
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1077 releases
31 Years AgoBatman Forever
R-ZoneEuropeNorth America
A game based on the Batman Forever movie, released for the R-Zone.
30 Years AgoDeus
DOSPCWorldwide
Deus is a survival Simulation Game, and the sequel to Robinson's Requiem. The player again assumes the role of Robinson's Requiem protagonist Officer Trepliev, who has become a bounty hunter for the Alien World Exploration department.
30 Years AgoUltimate Soccer Manager 2
PCWorldwide
Ultimate Soccer Manager or USM is an association football management video game serie for MS-DOS, Commodore Amiga and Windows 95, produced by Impressions and distributed by Sierra from 1995 to 1999.
30 Years AgoPinball Hazard
AmigaEurope
Pinball Hazard is a pinball game for up to five players, featuring four vertically scrolling tables: Vampire, Speed, Tomcat and Fight. Each table is thematically corresponding to its own name and has some unique elements, including simple arcade mini-challenges.
30 Years AgoPowerSlave
PortDOSNorth America
Powerslave is a first-person shooter featuring an arcade-style level progression. The game comprises 20 consecutive single-player levels and 12 multiplayer deathmatch levels.
30 Years AgoSpike Hoppin'
VectrexWorldwide
The first ever 16K Vectrex game, written by John Donzila! Originally planned to be a smaller game included in "More Good Things", John later decided to make it a seperate entity. Spike Hoppin' is a game where you make Spike hop on blocks, and change all their "colors".
30 Years AgoVectris
VectrexWorldwide
Vectris is your typical blocks and lines type puzzle game. The game is complete however, it does suffer from some screen flicker. A Vectrex side effect of drawing too many vectors on screen at once
30 Years AgoMore Invaders!
VectrexWorldwide
More Invaders! is the sequel to Vector Vaders. It's how John wanted VV to look originally, but due to his lack of Vectrex programming experience at the time, couldn't make it so.
30 Years AgoRockaroids
VectrexWorldwide
Rockaroids is the name for this Asteroids clone. This is the feature game in the release and sports all the features of the "Asteroids" type games.
30 Years AgoSpike's Water Balloons
VectrexWorldwide
Spike's Water Balloons. Spike returns in this Vectrex version of popular "Kaboom" and "Mad Bomber" style games of the early eighties !
30 Years Ago
30 Years AgoThe Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers
DOSWorldwide
The Fight of the Sumo-Hoppers is a physics-based fighting game by Tuomas Korppi. Radioactive wrestlers weighing several megatons fight in the Cement Desert on the planet of Musculia in this ancient holy sport.
30 Years AgoFisher-Price: Learning in Toyland
PCMacWorldwide
A minigame compilation of various educational games, targeted for ages three to six.
30 Years AgoDerrat Sorcerum
MacNorth America
Mixed Metaphor Software and Hopkins Technology's CD-ROM adventure brings a new dimension to an ancient world.
29 Years AgoRiana Rouge
PCMacWorldwide
A full-motion video, point-and-click action-adventure game rated (AO) Adults Only.
29 Years AgoAriel's Story Studio
PCMacNorth America
Ariel's Story Studio is an interactive storybook game for children of 4 years-old and above. The player scrolls between different screen to follow the story from The Little Mermaid.
29 Years AgoThe American Girls Premiere
PCNorth America
The American Girls Premiere is an educational game developed by The Learning Company that allows players to craft a variety of stage productions in historical settings ranging from 1774 to 1944.
29 Years AgoSlam Dunk Typing
PCNorth America
Now there's an exciting new approach to typing that combines the thrill of fast-paced basketball action with addictive games guaranteed to build typing proficiency.
29 Years AgoThe Oregon Trail: 3rd Edition
PCNorth America
The 9th release of the long-running educational game series, and the first to feature FMV.
29 Years AgoMortadelo y Filemón: El Sulfato Atómico
PCWorldwide
An adventure game based on a Spanish comic series.
29 Years AgoMoon Lander
VectrexWorldwide
Clone of the arcade game Lunar Lander, where the player must land their ship on a series of several moons while dealing with gravity, wind, diminishing fuel and enemy satellites.
29 Years AgoReader Rabbit Preschool
PCMacNorth America
Reader Rabbit and Mat the Mouse take charge in this spunky preschool prep program in which the duo must scare up keys to unlock The Wonder Pony and ride the magic carousel.
29 Years AgoAnimaniacs Game Pack
PCNorth America
The Animaniacs Game Pack is a compilation of five arcade-style games featuring the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) and other members of the cartoon show Animaniacs.
28 Years AgoClose Combat III: The Russian Front
PCWorldwide
Close Combat III is the third game in the venerable Close Combat series which takes us to the Russian Front in command of either the German Whermacht or Soviet Red Army, in some of the most realistic combat ever seen in a RTS.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.