Games released on April 18
Eight games that still hold up, from Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious in 1987 to Forager in 2019
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Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious 1987
Turned 39 this year MSX
Popolon and Aphrodite explore the demon filled Castle Greek to free their unborn child, and the player can switch between the two heroes whenever they like. Its structure of items opening new areas later inspired La-Mulana.
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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive 2001
A real time tactics game set in the Old West, in which John Cooper chases a train robber called El Diablo for the bounty, with a gang of up to six characters under your command.
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Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town 2003
Turned 23 this year Game Boy Advance
You inherit a neglected farm in Mineral Town and set out to bring it back, getting to know the villagers along the way, six of them bachelorettes you can marry.
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky 2009
Turned 17 this year Nintendo DS
A human is mysteriously turned into a Pokémon, chosen by a personality test at the start, in an enhanced version of Explorers of Time and Darkness.
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Portal 2 2011
Turned 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The test subject Chell works through an Aperture Science rebuilt by the supercomputer GLaDOS, solving its puzzles with portals, and a separate co-op campaign follows two robots, Atlas and P-Body.
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Trials Evolution 2012
Turned 14 this year Xbox 360
A physics driven motorcycle has to get from one end of a course to the other across ramps and obstacles, as fast as possible and with as few falls as possible, and the course editor lets anyone build the next one.
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Katana Zero 2019
Turned 7 this year Switch
Subject Zero, a katana wielding assassin with amnesia who can slow time and foresee the future, takes contracts from a psychiatrist in a dystopian city while he unravels his past.
