Games released on December 23
Four games that still hold up, from Gran Turismo in 1997 to The Blackwell Legacy in 2006
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Gran Turismo 1997
Turns 29 this year PlayStation
Kazunori Yamauchi's racing simulation puts 140 real world cars on the track, and the driver's licenses have to be earned before the races open. No other PlayStation game sold more copies.
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Starsiege: Tribes 1998
Turns 28 this year
A multiplayer first person shooter in which teams of soldiers with jetpacks fight over bases on huge outdoor maps, and a glitch in the physics lets players ski down hills at speed.
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Sonic Adventure 1998
Turns 28 this year Dreamcast
Sonic's first main game in 3D lets you play six characters, from Sonic to Big, who fishes, each with their own abilities, while Robotnik tries to unleash an ancient evil called Chaos.
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The Blackwell Legacy 2006
Rosa, a young writer living alone in New York City, learns from a ghost that she comes from a family of mediums, and begins to see that some recent deaths were not natural.
