Games released on December 14
Nine games that still hold up, from Final Fantasy Legend II in 1990 to Gorogoa in 2017
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Final Fantasy Legend II 1990
Turns 36 this year Game Boy
A hero follows the trail of the seventy seven MAGI stones, one of which a missing father left behind, across worlds connected by a tower, leading a party of humans, monsters and robots.
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Kirby's Block Ball 1995
Turns 31 this year Game Boy
Kirby curls into a ball and bounces through bricks in a Breakout game for the Game Boy, with paddles on every wall, copy abilities and minigames that win extra lives, and a boss at the end of every stage.
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Mario Kart 64 1996
Turns 30 this year Nintendo 64
Eight characters from the Mario games race karts on tracks drawn from their worlds, and four players can share one console on a split screen, racing each other or popping balloons in Battle.
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Dark Cloud 2000
Turns 26 this year PlayStation 2
The Dark Genie has destroyed the villages and sealed their parts into rocks called Atla, and Toan opens them and rebuilds each village house by house.
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Mega Man Battle Network 2 2001
Turns 25 this year Game Boy Advance
Lan Hikari and his NetNavi, MegaMan.EXE, go after a new NetCrime syndicate called Gospel, and this time MegaMan no longer heals fully after each battle.
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MotorStorm 2006
Turns 20 this year PlayStation 3
Off road racers of every kind meet at the MotorStorm Festival in Monument Valley, where bikes, buggies, rally cars and big rigs share the same track of sand and rock, and cut throat racing is encouraged.
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Avernum: Escape from the Pit 2011
A role playing game set in Avernum, a nation far under the surface where an empire sends its exiles to die. It is the second rewrite of Exile: Escape from the Pit, from 1995.
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Finding Paradise 2017
Turns 9 this year
Two doctors enter the memories of a dying man to fulfill a wish that seems to contradict itself, in a story driven adventure made with RPG Maker by Kan Gao, the creator of To the Moon.
