Games released on August 18
Five games that still hold up, from Re-Volt in 1999 to Spiritfarer in 2020
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Re-Volt 1999
Turned 27 this year Nintendo 64, PlayStation
Radio controlled cars race through museums, steamships, construction sites and supermarkets, picking up weapons to knock rivals aside, in a 1999 racing game.
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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light 2010
Turned 16 this year Xbox 360
Lara and a Mayan warrior named Totec team up to stop the spirit Xolotl, in a dual stick shooter with a fixed isometric camera, push block puzzles and co-op.
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Tales of Berseria 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4
A Tales role playing game with a woman alone at the front, in which Velvet Crowe, whose brother is sacrificed in a rite called the Advent, spends three years in a prison for daemons and sets out for revenge.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Turned 6 this year
The whole planet, rebuilt from satellite data, is yours to fly over in a flight simulator whose weather and air traffic can match the real world at that very moment.
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Spiritfarer 2020
Turned 6 this year Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Stella becomes the ferry master of the dead, sailing the spirits of the departed across the sea of the afterlife with her cat Daffodil and building a boat that feels like home for them before they move on.
