Games released on August 1
Five games that still hold up, from Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive in 1996 to The Long Dark in 2017
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Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive 1996
San Francisco in 2043, after a third world war, and a missing person case that runs into a crashed spacecraft, in the fourth Tex Murphy, a first person adventure.
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Mega Man X4 1997
Turned 29 this year Saturn, PlayStation
In the fourth Mega Man X, you choose X or Zero at the start and play the whole game as that one, X with boss weapons and armour, Zero with a saber.
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Golden Sun 2001
Turned 25 this year Game Boy Advance
Teenagers called Adepts set out to protect the world of Weyard from alchemy, with a magic called Psynergy, in Camelot's role playing game for the Game Boy Advance.
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Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire 2003
Turned 23 this year Game Boy Advance
Pinball with a Pokémon twist, where two tables themed on Ruby and Sapphire let you catch, evolve and hatch Pokémon while keeping the ball in play, on the Game Boy Advance.
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The Long Dark 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A bush pilot and a doctor survive the Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic storm, managing cold and hunger, in a first person survival game where dying in one mode deletes your save.
