Games released on January 21
Six games that still hold up, from Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 in 1994 to Yakuza Kiwami in 2016
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Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 1994
Turned 32 this year Game Boy
Wario searches an island for the treasures that will let him buy a castle of his own, in a 1994 platformer for the Game Boy.
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Resident Evil 2 1998
Turned 28 this year PlayStation
Two months after the first game, a biological weapon turns the people of Raccoon City into zombies, and the rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy and the college student Claire Redfield have to get out alive.
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Super Smash Bros. 1999
Turned 27 this year Nintendo 64
Characters from Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Pokémon and other Nintendo series fight to knock each other off an open stage, in the first Super Smash Bros.
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Advance Wars: Days of Ruin 2008
Turned 18 this year Nintendo DS
In a world wrecked by a meteor shower, a battalion of survivors fights over grid maps in turn based battles with fog of war and changing weather, in a 2008 game for the Nintendo DS.
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Skate 2 2009
Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Out of prison, a skater sets out to rebuild a career in the open city of New San Vanelona, where Mongocorp owns most of the property and sends its guards after him.
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Yakuza Kiwami 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4
Kazuma Kiryu comes out of prison after ten years for a murder he did not commit and goes back to Kamurocho, where Goro Majima is waiting to jump him at any moment.
