Games Released in June 1993

79 new games debuted in June 1993, with Super Famicom being the most active platform. June 25 was the busiest day, with 18 releases. Day of the Tentacle was the most popular release of the month.

Which days had the most releases?

June 25 saw the most activity with 18 releases.

18 releases

June 25

14 releases

June 1

6 releases

June 30

6 releases

June 21

SunMonTueWedThuFriSat

Tue, Jun 1

14 releases

Wed, Jun 2

No releases

Thu, Jun 3

2 releases

Fri, Jun 4

6 releases

Sat, Jun 5

5 releases

Sun, Jun 6

5 releases

Mon, Jun 7

1 release

Tue, Jun 8

1 release

Wed, Jun 9

1 release

Thu, Jun 10

1 release

Fri, Jun 11

5 releases

Sat, Jun 12

1 release

Sun, Jun 13

2 releases

Mon, Jun 14

1 release

Tue, Jun 15

3 releases

Wed, Jun 16

1 release

Thu, Jun 17

3 releases

Fri, Jun 18

5 releases

Sat, Jun 19

2 releases

Sun, Jun 20

No releases

Mon, Jun 21

6 releases

Tue, Jun 22

1 release

Wed, Jun 23

1 release

Thu, Jun 24

2 releases

Fri, Jun 25

18 releases

Sat, Jun 26

1 release

Sun, Jun 27

No releases

Mon, Jun 28

No releases

Tue, Jun 29

No releases

Wed, Jun 30

6 releases

How did each week compare?

The first week of June was the busiest with 33 releases.

Week 1 (June 1–7)

33 releases

Most popular release in Week 1

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is the first title in the series to be released on a handheld system and the only Zelda title on the original Game Boy. The gameplay is mostly similar to its predecessor with a top-down perspective, however there are short sections in dungeons where the game switches to a side-scrolling view with platforming elements. For this new adventure, Link must go onto each of the 7 temples to retrieve a musical instrument that will help awaken the Wind Fish. Along the way, he must search the land and uncover hidden treasures and items that will allow him to progress on his journey. Since its release, Link's Awakening has been popular among fans and critics.

Week 2 (June 8–14)

12 releases

Most popular release in Week 2

Mighty Final Fight

The Mad Gear Gang has spread crime and violence throughout the streets of Metro City. Only one man has enough guts to take the streets back from them, Mayor Mike Haggar. Now the Mad Gear Gang has kidnapped his daughter Jessica to bring him under their control. But they've made one mistake: Haggar's furious and he wants someone's head! Guy and Jessica's boyfriend, Cody, are joining Haggar to clean up the slime-filled streets and rescue Jessica. Along the way you'll find food to replenish your health, or better yet, search for weapons to knock the living daylights out of your enemies. So join Haggar and his friends as they try to free the city from the evil clutches of the Mad Gear Gang!

Week 3 (June 15–21)

20 releases

Most popular release in Week 3

Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!

Shape Up or Slip Out! is the fifth game in Al Lowe's Leisure Suit Larry series. All the events from the previous games are forgotten. Larry is once again single, and again his goal is to capture the interest of various ladies. By sheer coincidence, Larry finds himself on a TV Game Show called "Stallions". He wins a weekend at the Spa Resort, La Costa Lotta. Naturally, there are some beautiful women in the spa who are just dreaming about such a wonderful, handsome man as Larry! Uh... or is it really so? It is the player's goal to find out! This instalment focuses more on conversations with women and puzzles than on the storyline. The entire game is spent at La Costa Lotta. There are plenty of traditional inventory-based puzzles to solve in the game. Larry can die, but the player is allowed to try again every time that happens, without the need to restore a saved game. This is also the first Larry game with SVGA graphics, and voice-overs in the CD version.

Week 4 (June 22–28)

23 releases

Most popular release in Week 4

Day of the Tentacle

Day of the Tentacle, also known as Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle, is a 1993 graphic adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the sequel to the 1987 game Maniac Mansion. The game's plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle — a sentient, disembodied tentacle — from taking over the world. The player takes control of the three and solves puzzles while using time travel to explore different periods of history. Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer co-led the game's development, their first time in such a role. The pair carried over a limited amount of elements from Maniac Mansion and forwent the character selection aspect to simplify development. Inspirations included Chuck Jones cartoons and the history of the United States. Day of the Tentacle is the eighth LucasArts title to use the SCUMM engine, and the company's first title to feature voice acting. The game was released simultaneously on floppy disk and CD-ROM to critical acclaim and commercial success. Critics focused on its cartoon-style visuals and comedic elements. Day of the Tentacle has featured regularly in lists of "top" games published more than two decades after its release, and aspects have been referenced in popular culture.

Week 5 (June 29–30)

6 releases

Most popular release in Week 5

Serf City: Life is Feudal

A strategy game with cartoony graphics and an innocent line in humour. At the start of the level you choose a starting point, the intention being to get lots of flat land as well as resources to mine and ideally existing sources of trees, stones and water (for fish). Your people are vying for supremacy with up to 3 others. The gameplay focuses on resource management. Each building requires a certain amount of wood (and stones for some of them) to be constructed and requires particular resources to perform its function successfully. Food must be produced (either fish, bread (requiring a windmill, grain-farmer and baker) or pork (requiring a pig-farmer and butcher as well as the grain-farm) to feed the people working in mines to produce the iron, coal and gold (as well as additional stones). Huts and Watch-Towers are built to expand your territory, sometimes at the expense of an enemy's land (clever play involves targeting an area where your opponent has a crucial building, thus compromising his production). To finally win the level, you must defeat your opponents. Combat is fought one-at-a-time by the little soldiers and a victory results in all surrounding buildings being lost. The game features 30 preset missions. 6 tutorials missions will help beginners to learn the game mechanics. The game also offers the possibility to play semi-randomly (based on a 16-number key) generated maps. The map size varies from small maps, for quick matches, to large maps to, depending on how much RAM is available, huge maps, for very long matches as the fact that the in-game statistics can be displayed on a 50-hour scale illustrates. These semi-random maps can be played in single-player mode but can also be played by 2 players on one system, if you have 2 mice, in which case the screen is vertically split.

Which platforms saw the most releases?

Super Famicom received 20 new titles in June 1993. The runner up was Arcade with 14 new titles.

Super Famicom20 releases

Arcade14 releases

Super Nintendo Entertainment System12 releases

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis8 releases

Game Boy7 releases

PC-9800 Series5 releases

DOS4 releases

TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine4 releases

Amiga3 releases

Mac3 releases

What genres were most popular?

Adventure was the dominant genre in June 1993 with 23 titles. Platform followed closely with 19.

Adventure23

Platform19

Sport16

Puzzle15

Shooter13

Strategy12

Role-playing10

Simulator10

Arcade6

Fighting6

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