This is an idea I came up with for a forum game. The rules are simple find a game that was released on your birthday, if there isn't one available on your birth year keep going until you do.

For example my birthdate June 9th 1993 doesn't have a game release so I go until I find a year that does. In this case it was 2003 which was Donkey Kong Country for GBA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_in_video_games

Post what you find and it's your gaming birthstone, you also have to add it to your wishlist or playlist.

I like this challenge! However, being born in 1979 makes it a difficult since recordkeeping on game releases doesn't appear to be very good from 41 years ago. I'll keep looking but the closest I could find was Prince of Persia for the Apple II on October 3, 1989 when I turned 10 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game)
https://www.completionator.com/Game/Details/2872

There were some games released in 1979 but I have no idea if it was on my birthday. I'd like to think that Superman for the Atari was since it was released in '79, man I loved that game when I was 4 or 5 years old.

Yeah, I suffer from old fart syndrome (relatively speaking) as well and don't have oodles of info for game releases on my birth year.

I fall somewhere between the arcade release for Defender and the PC release of Ultima.

Since it's tough finding exact release dates for early game decades, I think the closest to my DOB I can find are Block Gal in arcade, and the Sharp X68000 console. Obviously both winners.

This is a great cool thing to think about! I had a go myself if that was alright, and the exact month and day I got was Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, which makes me happy because it's a game I've recently been playing.

This is interesting, don't know how I missed this the first time around. Nothing on my actual birthday, and then years and years later Gradius Advance comes out for the GBA and Empire Earth for Windows, both in 2001.

Not from the day I was born but in the month (October 1984):

Pac-Land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Land

@AlltheTrophies I'd be happy about Empire Earth

I like this idea....but when I was born the concept of video gaming didn't exist. Surprisingly I did find a game released on my birthday when I was a teenager though: Professional Mahjong Gokuu. Funny thing is....I actually have that game!

Well looks like this is my Birthday game xD

https://www.mobygames.com/game/11625/bob/