Games released on March 19

Three games that still hold up, from Super Metroid in 1994 to Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut in 2009

  1. Super Metroid 1994

    Turned 32 this year SNES

    Samus alone on the planet Zebes again, with a map that fills in only where she has walked and upgrades that open the places she passed hours ago. Alongside Symphony of the Night, it is credited with founding the Metroidvania.

  2. King of Fighters R-2 1999

    Turned 27 this year Neo Geo Pocket

    Rugal Bernstein is making clones in a King of Fighters for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, played with two buttons, where Making mode takes a single fighter through battle after battle to unlock more than 200 skills.

  3. Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut 2009

    Turned 17 this year Wii

    A remake of the 1996 Broken Sword in which George Stobbart, an American tourist, and Nicole Collard, a journalist, follow the Knights Templar and the Sword of Baphomet through Paris, Ireland, Spain and Scotland.

    $1.49 on GOG -75% +1 store