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Games released on June 25

15 games that still hold up, from Day of the Tentacle in 1993 to Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest in 2015

  1. Day of the Tentacle 1993

    Turned 33 this year DOS

    Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne are stuck in three eras about two centuries apart, passing items between them through the Chron-o-Johns to stop the Purple Tentacle. In the CD version every line of dialogue is spoken.

  2. Dungeon Keeper 2 1999

    Turned 27 this year

    The Horned Reaper enlists you, a dungeon keeper, to conquer the realms of Harmonia by taking their Portal Gems, in Bullfrog's game about running a dungeon as its villain.

  3. Outcast 1999

    Turned 27 this year

    Cutter Slade, a former Navy SEAL, escorts three scientists to the alien world of Adelpha to repair a probe whose damage has opened a black hole threatening Earth.

  4. Driver 1999

    Turned 27 this year PlayStation

    A driving game inspired by movie car chases, in which the undercover police officer John Tanner infiltrates a criminal organization across Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

  5. The Darkness 2007

    Turned 19 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    Jackie Estacado, a mobster marked for death on his twenty first birthday, finds that the Darkness, a demonic force living in his bloodline, is on his side, in a first person shooter based on the Top Cow comics.

  6. Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland 2009

    Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3

    Rorona, working off a family debt at the master alchemist Astrid's workshop, has three years and twelve examinations to prove the shop can stay open.

  7. Dawn of Discovery 2009

    Turned 17 this year

    Known in Europe as Anno 1404, this city builder splits a medieval world between the Occident and the Orient, and each half needs the other's goods to grow.

  8. Wii Sports Resort 2009

    Turned 17 this year Wii

    Twelve sports on Wuhu Island, each played by holding the Wii Remote like the real thing, in the first game to need Wii MotionPlus, which came in the box.

  9. Singularity 2010

    Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    A shooter in which Captain Nathaniel Renko, a Marine, is sent to the Soviet island of Katorga-12 and finds himself slipping between 2010 and 1955, with a device that ages or renews things.

  10. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 2010

    Turned 16 this year Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    Harry Potter's first four years, from the Philosopher's Stone to the Goblet of Fire, told in Lego, where a wheel of spells answers most puzzles and Hogwarts is a hub that keeps changing.

    $3.29 on Fanatical -84% +1 store

  11. Company of Heroes 2 2013

    Turned 13 this year

    A real time strategy game on the Eastern Front, leading the Red Army from Barbarossa to Berlin by capturing points for munitions and fuel, on Relic's Essence 3.0 engine.

    $4.99 on Steam -75% +1 store

  12. TowerFall Ascension 2013

    Turned 13 this year PlayStation 4

    Up to four archers fight in small arenas with a few arrows, stomps and dodges, until one is left standing, in a local multiplayer game that also has a solo quest mode.

  13. Valiant Hearts: The Great War 2014

    Turned 12 this year PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One

    A side scrolling adventure set in the First World War and told through four people caught up in it, Emile, Karl, Freddie and Anna.

    $3.74 on Steam -75%

  14. Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright 2015

    Turned 11 this year Nintendo 3DS

    Corrin is drawn into a war between Hoshido, the kingdom of their birth, and Nohr, the one that raised them, in one of three versions of a tactics game. Birthright is the one that offers extra gold and experience along the way.

  15. Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest 2015

    Turned 11 this year Nintendo 3DS

    The harder of the two sides of Fire Emblem Fates, in which Corrin, raised by Nohr, sides with the adoptive family against Hoshido, the birth one.