Games released on June 3

Four games that still hold up, from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in 1986 to Gunpoint in 2013

  1. Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels 1986

    Turned 40 this year NES

    The Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, a harder run of eight worlds with Poison Mushrooms, backwards warps and gusts of wind, and a Luigi who jumps higher than Mario.

  2. Ninja Gaiden II 2008

    Turned 18 this year Xbox 360

    Ryu returns in Team Ninja's action game, now able to cut the limbs off his enemies, though a maimed foe may turn to suicide tactics and has to be finished at once. He is as fragile as they are.

    $44.49 on Fanatical -11%

  3. LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures 2008

    Turned 18 this year Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360

    Indiana Jones in Lego, from Raiders of the Lost Ark through Temple of Doom to the Last Crusade, with two players sharing the climbing, the swinging and 84 characters to play.

  4. Gunpoint 2013

    Turned 13 this year

    In the near future, the freelance spy Richard Conway breaks into buildings for his clients, in Tom Francis's stealth puzzle platformer.