Games released on February 23
Seven games that still hold up, from Super Street Fighter II Turbo in 1994 to NieR: Automata in 2017
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Super Street Fighter II Turbo 1994
Turned 32 this year Arcade
A fighting game that brought super combos, air combos and the hidden fighter Akuma, and was the first Street Fighter in arcades whose speed could be set.
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Metal Slug 2 1998
Turned 28 this year Arcade
SNK's second Metal Slug, the first not made by Nazca, a run and gun where enemies never stop coming, later reworked as Metal Slug X.
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Silent Hill 1999
Turned 27 this year PlayStation
Harry Mason searches a fog bound American town for his missing adopted daughter and stumbles on a cult trying to bring back the deity it worships.
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Severance: Blade of Darkness 2001
One of four fighters sets out to win Ianna's Sword and kill the necromancer Dal Gurak, after finding six runic tablets hidden across the land.
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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories 2006
Turned 20 this year PlayStation 2
Adell, the last human in a world where everyone is turning into demons, sets out to defeat the overlord Zenon, with Zenon's own estranged daughter Rozalin joining him on the way.
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Napoleon: Total War 2010
Turned 16 this year
Napoleon Bonaparte, or one of his rivals, fights the Napoleonic Wars across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from a turn based campaign map to real time battles between huge armies.
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NieR: Automata 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4
Androids fight alien made Machines in the year 11945, with 2B, a combat android, and 9S, a scanner, among those you play. The hack and slash turns into a shoot 'em up or a text adventure, and the game is made to be played three or four times.
