Games released on December 10
13 games that still hold up, from Doom in 1993 to Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020
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Bomberman '94 1993
Turns 33 this year TurboGrafx-16
A Bomberman of maze levels across six areas, from Jammin' Jungle to the artificial comet of Bagular, where bombs clear creatures in single player and rivals in multiplayer. It introduced the Louies, and the PC Engine version takes five players.
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Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 1993
Turns 33 this year NES
Chip and Dale chase Fat Cat, who means to steal the Urn of the Pharaoh, through stages of crates and acorns to throw, and a second player can pick up and throw the other chipmunk.
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Turok 2: Seeds of Evil 1998
Turns 28 this year Nintendo 64
A shooter in which a new Turok, Joshua Fireseed, is set against the Primagen, an alien held in the wreck of its own Lightship, in the Lost Land.
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Planescape: Torment 1999
Turns 27 this year
The Nameless One, an immortal with no memory who cannot die for good, wanders Sigil with up to five companions. Many encounters are settled by talking rather than fighting, in a script of about 800,000 words.
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors 2009
Turns 17 this year Nintendo DS
Nine people abducted onto a sealed cruise ship are forced to play the Nonary Game, with nine hours to find the door marked 9 before it sinks, and the college student Junpei is one of them.
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PixelJunk Shooter 2009
Turns 17 this year PlayStation 3
One or two players fly underground to rescue trapped scientists, in a shooter where water, magma and a magnetic fluid flow through the caves and mix, water and lava cooling into new rock.
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Mad Father 2012
Turns 14 this year
Aya Drevis, eleven years old, knows that her father kills people in the basement of their manor in Northern Germany, and breaks into his laboratory to learn the truth about his research.
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Game Dev Tycoon 2012
Turns 14 this year
You start a game studio in a garage with one computer and little money, and grow it across the decades into a company that makes its own consoles, one game at a time.
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Steins;Gate 0 2015
Turns 11 this year PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita
A visual novel that follows on from Steins;Gate through several viewpoints, in which choices are made on Okabe's phone, by whether he answers calls from Amadeus, an artificial intelligence.
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SteamWorld Heist 2015
Turns 11 this year Nintendo 3DS
A turn based tactics game seen from the side, in which Captain Piper Faraday and her crew of steam driven robots board ships and the shooting is aimed by hand, with no percentages.
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Cyberpunk 2077 2020
Turns 6 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A mercenary in Night City ends up with the mind of a rocker turned terrorist on a chip in their head, in a first person RPG where V can be built for guns, stealth, hacking or blades.
