Games released on August 27
10 games that still hold up, from Super Mario Kart in 1992 to Control in 2019
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Super Mario Kart 1992
Turned 34 this year SNES
Eight characters from the Mario games race karts against each other, firing shells and dropping bananas, and two players can pop each other's balloons in Battle Mode. It is often credited with creating the kart racing subgenre.
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EarthBound 1994
Turned 32 this year SNES
In the second Mother game, a meteorite crashes near Ness's neighborhood, and he sets out with Paula, Jeff and Poo to gather eight melodies from sanctuaries around the world.
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun 1999
Turned 27 this year
The sequel to the first Command & Conquer, a real time strategy game in which GDI or Nod build a base, gather Tiberium and send armies to destroy the other side.
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SOCOM: US Navy SEALs 2002
Turned 24 this year PlayStation 2
Teams of Navy SEALs carry out missions around the world in a third person tactical shooter whose orders were given through a headset in the box, and whose online battles of sixteen were among the first on the PlayStation 2.
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Icewind Dale II 2002
Turned 24 this year
A role playing game built on the third edition rules of Dungeons & Dragons, in which a party of mercenaries joins a war between the Ten Towns of Icewind Dale and an alliance of persecuted races.
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 2007
Turned 19 this year Wii
Samus closes the Prime trilogy on the Wii, aiming by pointing the Wii Remote at the screen and opening doors with gestures that pull, push and twist. Hypermode gives her a burst of power at the cost of an energy tank.
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Castle Crashers 2008
Turned 18 this year Xbox 360
A beat 'em up for Xbox Live Arcade in which four knights set out after four princesses captured by a dark wizard, for up to four players locally or online.
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Lara Croft Go 2015
Turned 11 this year
A turn based puzzle spin off of Tomb Raider in which Lara Croft moves one step at a time through ruins laid out like a board game, and every step lets the traps and enemies take one too.
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Control 2019
Turned 7 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Jesse Faden becomes the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret agency whose brutalist headquarters has been taken over by the Hiss. She fights back with a weapon that changes form and powers such as Levitate.
