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Games released on December 8

Six games that still hold up, from Toki in 1989 to Opus Magnum in 2017

  1. Toki 1989

    Turns 37 this year Arcade

    An enchanted ape spits energy balls at jungle monsters to defeat the wizard who cursed him and rescue a kidnapped princess, in a 1989 arcade run and gun platformer.

  2. Dragon Warrior III 2000

    Turns 26 this year Game Boy Color

    The Hero takes up his father's quest to defeat the archfiend Baramos, with companions hired at a tavern whose classes can change, in a Game Boy Color remake of Dragon Quest III, the prequel to the first two.

  3. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 2006

    Turns 20 this year

    A combat flight simulator that gathers the original IL-2 Sturmovik and every expansion into one Second World War package, named after an alternate history add-on where the war drags on into 1946.

    $1.69 on Fanatical -83% +1 store

  4. OneShot 2016

    Turns 10 this year

    Niko, a catlike child in a world without sunlight, has to carry a lightbulb that serves as its sun to a tower, and you are a presence separate from Niko. Some puzzles reach outside the game into your own computer.

    $5.99 on Steam -40%

  5. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life 2016

    Turns 10 this year PlayStation 4

    Kazuma Kiryu returns to care for his adoptive daughter's infant son and looks into how the child was born, in the last main Yakuza with Kiryu at its centre.

    $9.29 on Fanatical -54% +1 store

  6. Opus Magnum 2017

    Turns 9 this year

    A puzzle game in which you build alchemical machines on a hex grid that carry reagents from an input to a finished product, with arms, tracks and glyphs.