Games Released in August 1981

6 new games released in August 1981, with Game & Watch being the most active platform. August 1 was the busiest day, with 1 new release.

Top Platform

Game & Watch

New Releases

6

Busiest Day

August 1

Galaxian

What was the most popular game of August 1981?

Galaxian

Third game released for the Epoch Cassette Vision. Despite sharing a name with the seminal Namco release, it is not based on that game but plays rather similar to Nihon Bussan's Moon Cresta.

Which days had the most releases?

August 1 saw the most activity with 1 release.

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1 release

August 1

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1 release

August 4

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1 release

August 5

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1 release

August 10

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat

Sat, Aug 1

1 release

Sun, Aug 2

No releases

Mon, Aug 3

No releases

Tue, Aug 4

1 release

Wed, Aug 5

1 release

Thu, Aug 6

No releases

Fri, Aug 7

No releases

Sat, Aug 8

No releases

Sun, Aug 9

No releases

Mon, Aug 10

1 release

Tue, Aug 11

No releases

Wed, Aug 12

No releases

Thu, Aug 13

No releases

Fri, Aug 14

No releases

Sat, Aug 15

No releases

Sun, Aug 16

No releases

Mon, Aug 17

No releases

Tue, Aug 18

No releases

Wed, Aug 19

No releases

Thu, Aug 20

1 release

Fri, Aug 21

No releases

Sat, Aug 22

No releases

Sun, Aug 23

No releases

Mon, Aug 24

No releases

Tue, Aug 25

No releases

Wed, Aug 26

No releases

Thu, Aug 27

No releases

Fri, Aug 28

No releases

Sat, Aug 29

No releases

Sun, Aug 30

No releases

Mon, Aug 31

1 release

How did each week compare?

The first week of August was the busiest with 3 releases.

Week 1 (August 1–7)

3 releases
Popeye

Most popular release in Week 1

Popeye

Popeye is a Panorama and Tabletop Game & Watch game released in August of 1983. The games' model number are PG-74 for the Tabletop game and PG-92 for the Panorama game. PG in the model number stands for Popeye Game. The Panorama game took and came with two LR44 batteries, while the Tabletop version came with two C batteries. Nintendo manufactured 250,000 versions of both games in America and Europe. It's unknown how many were manufactured in Japan. The game is based on the lucrative Popeye franchise, and in it you control Popeye. Nintendo was known during that era to create games based off on the Popeye franchise. Brutus has kidnapped Olive, and as Popeye you have to knock him out and punch him into the ocean to save Olive. The directional pad controls Popeye left and right. When Brutus tries to punch your character, move Popeye right to make him avoid the punch, then counter with one of your own. If Brutus move Popeye to the very right hand part of the pier, Popeye can still stay on by moving the control pad right at just the right moments, then counter-attack to move Brutus back to the left. Once Popeye moves Brutus to the very left hand corner of the pier, he will have to attack him a certain amount of times (the exact amount depending on your score) before he punches him into the ocean. In Game B a swordfish will occasionally try and poke Popeye. If it succeeds, then Popeye will move back a bit. After Brutus gets out of the ocean for the third time, Olive, who's at the top tied up, will kick cans of spinach down to Popeye for him to eat. If done so successfully, Popeye will gain so much strength that he knocks Brutus all the way up to the hook at the upper left hand corner. Following that, Popeye goes up to where Olive Ollie is and saves her, thus ending the game. After the game ends, it starts over again. If Popeye misses the Spinach, then he'll have to knock Brutus back into the ocean before she'll be able to kick more spinach down towards him.

Which platforms saw the most releases?

Game & Watch received 2 new titles in August 1981. The runner up was Atari 8-bit with 1 new title.

Game & Watch2 releases
Atari 8-bit1 release
Epoch Cassette Vision1 release
Atari 26001 release
Apple II1 release

What genres were most popular?

Arcade was the dominant genre in August 1981 with 4 titles. Simulator followed closely with 1.

Arcade4
Simulator1
Strategy1
Turn-based strategy1
Shooter1
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