Games released on August 3

Three games that still hold up, from Grandia II in 2000 to Rhythm Tengoku in 2006

  1. Grandia II 2000

    Turned 26 this year Dreamcast

    A young mercenary named Ryudo escorts Elena, a songstress of the Church of Granas, across a world shaped by a war of gods, in a 2000 Dreamcast role playing game with fully 3D battles.

  2. Doom 3 2004

    Turned 22 this year

    A shooter set on a Mars research base of the UAC in 2145, which turns the rush of its predecessors into horror, with a flashlight you cannot hold at the same time as a gun.

  3. Rhythm Tengoku 2006

    Turned 20 this year Game Boy Advance

    A rhythm game of 48 stages, each about a minute long and built around its own kind of rhythm, mostly played with a single button, by the team behind WarioWare, released only in Japan.