Games released on April 23
Six games that still hold up, from Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? in 1985 to Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019
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Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? 1985
Turned 41 this year DOS, Apple II
An educational game of 1985, boxed with an almanac, in which you chase Carmen Sandiego's villains across thirty countries before time runs out, questioning witnesses and sending what you learn to Interpol.
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Disney's DuckTales 2 1993
Turned 33 this year NES
Scrooge McDuck travels the world collecting treasure and the pieces of a map to his lost fortune, in Capcom's sequel to DuckTales.
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Mega Man Zero 3 2004
Turned 22 this year Game Boy Advance
Zero takes up the Recoil Rod, a pair of tonfa that aim in any direction and, pointed at the ground, bounce him into the air like a pogo stick, in an action platformer for the Game Boy Advance.
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Don't Starve 2013
Turned 13 this year
A survival game grown from a 2010 game jam, with Minecraft's exploring and Tim Burton's look behind it, in which Wilson, a scientist, is dropped into a dark world and has to not die.
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Crypt of the NecroDancer 2015
Turned 11 this year
A roguelike rhythm game in which you explore an underground dungeon where every move and every attack has to land on the beat of Danny Baranowsky's music.
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Mortal Kombat 11 2019
Turned 7 this year Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In this 2.5D fighting game, Kronika, the keeper of time, sets out to rewrite history after Shinnok's defeat, in a story mode told through the fighters.
