Games released on March 23

Six games that still hold up, from Kirby's Adventure in 1993 to A Way Out in 2018

  1. Kirby's Adventure 1993

    Turned 33 this year NES

    King Dedede breaks the Star Rod and gives its pieces to his minions, and Kirby crosses Dream Land to repair it. This was the first Kirby where swallowing certain enemies copies their powers.

  2. Metal Slug 3 2000

    Turned 26 this year Arcade

    SNK's third Metal Slug, a run and gun with music by Noise Factory, where the path forks in most missions into branches of their own.

    $7.79 on Fanatical -3%

  3. Far Cry 2004

    Turned 22 this year

    A first person shooter in which Jack Carver, a former special forces operative, searches a tropical archipelago for a missing journalist and finds genetic experiments on the wildlife.

    $2.99 on GOG -70%

  4. Just Cause 2 2010

    Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    An open world game set on Panau, an invented island nation in South East Asia, in which Rico Rodriguez brings a grappling hook and a parachute against the dictator Pandak Baby Panay.

  5. Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom 2018

    Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4

    A young king whose throne is stolen builds a new kingdom, commands a small army on the world map and fights in real time, in Level-5's sequel to Ni no Kuni.

    $8.99 on Fanatical -85%

  6. A Way Out 2018

    Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One

    A game for two players only, directed by Josef Fares, in which the prisoners Vincent and Leo break out of prison together and stay on the run, always on a split screen.