Games released on February 26
Nine games that still hold up, from Tenchu: Stealth Assassins in 1998 to Touhou Luna Nights in 2019
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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins 1998
Turned 28 this year PlayStation
Rikimaru or Ayame, ninja of the Azuma clan, carry out eleven missions for Lord Gohda in Sengoku era Japan, where the aim is to be seen as little as possible.
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Onimusha 3: Demon Siege 2004
Turned 22 this year PlayStation 2
The samurai Samanosuke swaps places with Jacques Blanc, a French officer from the future, and each fights demons in the other's world, Paris or feudal Japan.
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Yakuza 3 2009
Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3
Kazuma Kiryu has left the yakuza to run an orphanage in Okinawa, until trouble in Tokyo pulls him back to a city full of brawls and over 600 side stories, in a 2009 PlayStation 3 game.
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Killzone 2 2009
Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3
In the 24th century, Tomas Sevchenko and his unit fight the Helghast as the Vektans invade Helghan, in a 2009 first person shooter for the PlayStation 3.
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Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask 2011
Turned 15 this year Nintendo 3DS
A puzzle adventure that was a launch title for the 3DS, with its characters in 3D and a magnifying glass you move around the top screen to find puzzles and hint coins.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead 2013
Turned 13 this year
A community built roguelike set in New England in 2027, after a catastrophe has killed most people and a sample called XE-037 has raised the dead, on a procedurally generated map.
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Stardew Valley 2016
You leave a corporate job to run the rundown farm your late grandfather left you near Pelican Town, in a farming game Eric Barone made alone over five years.
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Touhou Luna Nights 2019
Turned 7 this year
Sakuya, a maid who can slow and stop time, throws knives through a mansion in a parallel world on her way out, in a game based on the Touhou shooters that needs no knowledge of them.
