Games released on February 9
Seven games that still hold up, from Bahamut Lagoon in 1996 to Firewatch in 2016
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Bahamut Lagoon 1996
Byuu, a soldier of Kahna, leads a campaign against the Granbelos Empire across the floating lands of Orelus, with a dragon raised beside each squadron.
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 1999
Turned 27 this year
After a colony ship reaches Chiron in 2060, its crew splits into seven ideological factions, on a planet that is itself a dormant, semi sentient organism. Many of its ideas carried into later Civilization games.
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Metroid: Zero Mission 2004
Turned 22 this year Game Boy Advance
Samus goes back to Zebes in a remake of the original Metroid, now with a map, new areas and a final stretch in which she loses her suit. Finishing it unlocks the NES original on the same cartridge.
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BioShock 2 2010
Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Eight years after BioShock, the silent armoured Subject Delta fights his way through Rapture against the Splicers, the psychotic people left in the city.
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Gravity Rush 2012
Turned 14 this year PlayStation Vita
Kat wakes with no memory in the open city of Hekseville and finds she can shift gravity, walking on walls and falling in any direction to defend its people from the Nevi.
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Unravel 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A platform game made in a small town in the north of Sweden, in which Yarny, a creature of red yarn the size of an apple, unravels as he goes, and the thread is both his rope and his limit.
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Firewatch 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 4
A game in which Henry takes a job as a fire lookout in the Shoshone National Forest in 1989, with his supervisor, Delilah, on the radio, and no combat.
