Games released on December 11
Seven games that still hold up, from Mega Man III in 1992 to Kingdom Two Crowns in 2018
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Mega Man III 1992
Turns 34 this year Game Boy
Mega Man takes on the evil Wily and a new Mega Man Killer named Punk on the Game Boy, with Robot Masters borrowed from the NES games Mega Man 3 and Mega Man 4. Two sets of four make up the stages.
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Klonoa: Door to Phantomile 1997
Turns 29 this year PlayStation
Klonoa and his friend Huepow set out to save the dream world of Phantomile from an evil spirit, in Namco's platformer with 3D scenery and a 2D path.
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Shining Force III 1997
Turns 29 this year Saturn
Shining Force taken into 3D on the Saturn, a tactics role playing game told as three scenarios that show one war from different sides. Only the first was released in the West.
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Gran Turismo 2 1999
Turns 27 this year PlayStation
The sequel to Gran Turismo keeps its driver's licenses and its career of trophies, and stretches them across nearly 650 cars and 27 tracks, with rally stages beside the road courses.
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Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All Stars 2008
Turns 18 this year Wii
Capcom's heroes meet the characters of Tatsunoko's anime in a crossover fighter of tag teams of two, played with three attack buttons and the first of Capcom's Vs. series rendered fully in 3D.
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The Talos Principle 2014
Turns 12 this year
An artificial intelligence in a computer generated world works through over 120 physics puzzles, while its story comes through a voice in the sky, text terminals and messages left by earlier visitors.
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Kingdom Two Crowns 2018
Turns 8 this year Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A monarch on horseback builds a kingdom by day and defends it at night from the Greed, a race of monsters, in the third game of the Kingdom series.
