Games released on June 26
Eight games that still hold up, from Bases Loaded in 1987 to Shovel Knight in 2014
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Bases Loaded 1987
Turned 39 this year NES
A baseball game that shows the pitcher and batter from behind the pitcher, as on television, with twelve fictitious teams and a mitt that appears on its own to catch wild pitches.
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Lunar: The Silver Star 1992
Turned 34 this year
Alex, a boy from the village of Burg, sets out with his friends to become the next Dragonmaster, in a Sega CD role playing game that used CD audio, video and voice acting.
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Viewtiful Joe 2003
Turned 23 this year GameCube
Joe, a movie fan pulled into Movieland after his girlfriend Silvia is kidnapped, fights with a VFX Power that slows time, in a side scrolling beat 'em up for the GameCube by Hideki Kamiya.
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Yume Nikki 2004
Turned 22 this year
Madotsuki, a girl who lives alone, cannot leave her apartment, so the game is her dreams, a hub of doors each opening onto a world of its own, with no dialogue, combat or game over.
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Titan Quest 2006
The Titans have escaped their prison, and a hero of your own making follows them through Ancient Greece, Egypt and along the Silk Road, mixing two of eight masteries into a build of their own.
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Spec Ops: The Line 2012
Turned 14 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A third person shooter in which Captain Martin Walker leads two men into a Dubai buried by sandstorms, giving the squad orders as you go. It is a reboot of the Spec Ops series.
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Shovel Knight 2014
Turned 12 this year Wii U, Nintendo 3DS
When the Enchantress unseals the Tower of Fate, Shovel Knight leaves his exile behind to fight through the Order of No Quarter, the knights who serve her, in a platformer with an 8 bit look.
