Games released on December 5

Five games that still hold up, from Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness in 1995 to Nuclear Throne in 2015

  1. Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness 1995

    Turns 31 this year DOS

    In Blizzard's real time strategy game, Humans and Orcs fight on land, at sea and in the air, each side with a campaign of its own.

  2. Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean 2003

    Turns 23 this year GameCube

    A role playing game for the GameCube in which you are a guardian spirit guiding Kalas and his companions across a kingdom of islands floating in the clouds.

  3. Primordia 2012

    Turns 14 this year

    Horatio and Crispin explore a cyberpunk world together, in a point and click adventure whose choices decide which of several endings you reach.

    $3.09 on GOG -69%

  4. Yakuza 5 2012

    Turns 14 this year PlayStation 3

    Five playable characters, from a taxi driver in Fukuoka to a 16 year old chasing stardom in Osaka, each get their own city, story, fighting style and minigames, in a 2012 PlayStation 3 game.

    $9.29 on Fanatical -54%

  5. Nuclear Throne 2015

    Turns 11 this year PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita

    Mutants fight across a radioactive wasteland toward the Nuclear Throne, with new levels and weapons every run and dying sending you back to floor one, in Vlambeer's top down roguelike.