Games released on April 20
Eight games that still hold up, from Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi in 1990 to God of War in 2018
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Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryuu to Hikari no Tsurugi 1990
Turned 36 this year NES
Marth, prince of Altea, is driven into exile by the sorcerer Gharnef and his master Medeus and gathers an army to take back his throne, in the first Fire Emblem.
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Mega Man Legends 2 2000
Turned 26 this year PlayStation
Mega Man Volnutt, a Digger, travels between islands in a ship to explore ruins and find four keys to a legendary treasure, with air pirates racing him for them, in a 2000 PlayStation game.
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Hitman: Contracts 2004
Turned 22 this year PlayStation 2, Xbox
A stealth game in which Agent 47, a cloned assassin almost killed, relives old contracts, with missions from the first game remastered beside new ones.
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance 2005
Turned 21 this year GameCube
The mercenary Ike and his companions set out to restore Crimea's exiled heir to her throne after Daein invades, across a continent shared uneasily by humans and shapeshifting Laguz.
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Mother 3 2006
Turned 20 this year Game Boy Advance
Life in Tazmily Village is followed across a three year time skip, in battles where pressing in time with the music can chain up to sixteen hits. It came out only in Japan and is played in English through a fan translation.
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Ōkami 2006
Turned 20 this year PlayStation 2
Amaterasu, the Shinto sun goddess, takes the form of a white wolf to save a classical Japan from darkness, in a world painted like ink on paper.
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Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia 2017
Turned 9 this year Nintendo 3DS
Alm and Celica each lead an army across Valentia to restore peace, in a remake of the 1992 Famicom game Fire Emblem Gaiden.
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God of War 2018
Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4
In a Norse setting, Kratos travels with his son Atreus to scatter his wife's ashes from the highest peak of the nine realms, told as one continuous shot with no camera cuts.
