Games released on March 14

Four games that still hold up, from Mario's Picross in 1995 to Daxter in 2006

1. 

   Mario's Picross 1995

   Turned 31 this year Game Boy

   Mario takes a chisel to blocks of stone in a puzzle game of number logic, where the clues along the edge of a grid show which squares to break to reveal a picture, against a thirty minute clock.

2. 

   Bushido Blade 1997

   Turned 29 this year PlayStation

   A fighting game where one clean hit can kill, there is no health bar and wounds slow or cripple the fighter, set in large outdoor arenas with eight weapons, on the PlayStation in 1997.

3. 

   Syphon Filter 2 2000

   Turned 26 this year PlayStation

   Gabe Logan and Lian Xing, exiled from the Agency, try to stop the Syphon Filter virus being sold to a terrorist nation, across more than 28 places around the world.

4. 

   Daxter 2006

   Turned 20 this year PSP

   Daxter, the wisecracking sidekick of the Jak games, takes a job as a bug exterminator in Haven City while his friend is in prison, fighting robotic bugs with an electric fly swatter.