Games released on July 7
Four games that still hold up, from Blazing Lazers in 1989 to Rocket League in 2015
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Blazing Lazers 1989
Turned 37 this year TurboGrafx-16
A single fighter takes on the Dark Squadron over nine vertically scrolling areas. In Japan it was released as Gunhed, tied to a film whose mecha never appears in the game.
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Final Fantasy IX 2000
Turned 26 this year PlayStation
Gaia is a world of nations, Alexandria, Lindblum, Burmecia and Cleyra, crossed by a party where each character has a class of their own. Abilities come from the weapons and armour they wear, and Trance changes their commands.
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We Love Katamari 2005
Turned 21 this year PlayStation 2
The Prince, the small son of the King of All Cosmos, rolls a sticky katamari that picks up anything smaller than itself and grows to take on bigger things. A second player can roll alongside or against him.
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Rocket League 2015
Turned 11 this year PlayStation 4
A game of soccer played with rocket powered cars, in which you drive into a giant ball to knock it into the other team's goal, in five minute matches.
