Games released on July 19
Eight games that still hold up, from Final Fantasy IV in 1991 to Fieldrunners 2 in 2012
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Final Fantasy IV 1991
Cecil Harvey, a dark knight, tries to stop the sorcerer Golbez from seizing the crystals, with twelve characters joining and leaving his party along the way.
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Bonk's Revenge 1991
Turned 35 this year TurboGrafx-16
A big headed caveman headbutts his way through stages from trains to space and underwater, to win back half the Moon from King Drool III, in a 1991 TurboGrafx-16 game.
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Saturn Bomberman 1996
A Bomberman game for the Sega Saturn with a battle mode for up to ten players using multitaps, along with a story mode and a tower to climb against the clock, released in 1996.
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Final Fantasy X 2001
Turned 25 this year PlayStation 2
In Spira, a world drawing on the South Pacific, Thailand and Japan, a group of adventurers sets out to defeat a rampaging monster called Sin, with the blitzball star Tidus among them.
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Mega Man Xtreme 2 2001
Turned 25 this year Game Boy Color
X and Zero hunt an army of Mavericks made from stolen Reploid souls, with a young ally named Iris, each through stages and bosses of his own. The story ends only once both missions are beaten.
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Klonoa: Empire of Dreams 2001
Turned 25 this year Game Boy Advance
Klonoa breaks the law of an emperor with insomnia by dreaming, and uses his ring to lift enemies overhead and jump off them, across 40 levels in five worlds of a Game Boy Advance puzzle platformer.
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Super Mario Sunshine 2002
Turned 24 this year GameCube
Mario has to collect 120 Shine Sprites to bring light back to Isle Delfino, with FLUDD, a water backpack, strapped on. It was the first 3D Mario with a Yoshi to ride.
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Fieldrunners 2 2012
Turned 14 this year
A tower defense game for the iPhone where six weapons and three items are picked before each of 25 levels, and twenty enemies slipping through is enough to lose.
