Games released on July 27

Three games that still hold up, from EarthBound Beginnings in 1989 to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty in 2010

  1. EarthBound Beginnings 1989

    Turned 37 this year Wii U

    Ninten, a boy who uses his great-grandfather's studies of psychic powers, sets out to end strange happenings across a slightly offbeat America, with baseball bats and frying pans in place of swords.

  2. The World Ends with You 2007

    Turned 19 this year Nintendo DS

    Neku wakes up in Tokyo's Shibuya district with no memory and has to survive a Reapers' Game that sets a challenge each day, fighting with pins on the touch screen while a partner fights on the top screen.

  3. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty 2010

    Turned 16 this year

    Four years after Brood War, Jim Raynor leads an insurgent group against the Terran Dominion, between missions aboard the battlecruiser Hyperion with its crew.