Games released on March 24
Nine games that still hold up, from Space Quest III: The Pirates Of Pestulon in 1989 to Battle Brothers in 2017
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Space Quest III: The Pirates Of Pestulon 1989
Turned 37 this year DOS
Two programmers, the real creators of the series, are held by a sinister video game company, and the space janitor Roger Wilco is the one who goes to get them out.
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Need for Speed: High Stakes 1999
Turned 27 this year PlayStation
A racer in which damage changes how cars look and drive and tournament prize money pays for the repairs, with exotic cars from the BMW Z3 to the McLaren F1.
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Wipeout Pure 2005
Turned 21 this year PSP
A hundred years after Wipeout 2097, eight teams race anti gravity ships in the FX300 league of 2197, in a Wipeout made as a launch game for the PlayStation Portable.
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Kirby: Canvas Curse 2005
Turned 21 this year Nintendo DS
A DS platformer played entirely with the stylus, in which Kirby rolls as a ball along the rainbow lines you draw, as ramps, bridges and walls against enemies and hazards.
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP 2011
A Scythian warrior seeks a magic book in a mountain town, solving environmental puzzles with song and playing by the phases of the real moon, in a pixel art adventure with a synth soundtrack.
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Bloodborne 2015
Turned 11 this year PlayStation 4
A Hunter searches Yharnam, a decaying Gothic city built on the healing power of blood, for the source of the plague that afflicts its people, fighting beasts and eldritch beings along the way.
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Dark Souls III 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
The Ashen One, an unkindled warrior, sets out on a quest tied to the Lords of Cinder and the fading First Flame, in the last part of FromSoftware's Dark Souls trilogy. Its bosses come with orchestral music and haunting choirs.
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Samorost 3 2016
A point and click adventure with no dialogue, in which a gnome finds a flute fallen from the sky and sets off in a rocket to find where it came from.
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Battle Brothers 2017
Turned 9 this year
A tactical role playing game in which you run a mercenary company in a fantasy world modelled on medieval Germany, with drunks, criminals and the crippled as the men you can afford at the start.
