Games released on March 28

Five games that still hold up, from Theme Hospital in 1997 to Championship Manager 4 in 2003

  1. Theme Hospital 1997

    Turned 29 this year DOS

    Bullfrog's business simulation puts a private hospital in your hands, built room by room for patients with comical, made up ailments.

    $2.49 on GOG -50%

  2. Soldier of Fortune 2000

    Turned 26 this year

    An American mercenary travels the world to stop a terrorist plot with nuclear weapons, in a shooter whose enemies react differently to each of 26 parts of the body that can be hit, a level of violence that got it restricted in Germany.

  3. Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast 2002

    Turned 24 this year

    Kyle Katarn, a mercenary for the New Republic who had turned his back on the Force, has to become a Jedi again to stop the Dark Jedi Desann from giving an Imperial army the Force.

  4. Kingdom Hearts 2002

    Turned 24 this year PlayStation 2

    Sora, a cheerful teenager, fights the forces of darkness alongside Donald and Goofy, through worlds from Disney films and original ones. It began the Kingdom Hearts series.

  5. Championship Manager 4 2003

    Turned 23 this year

    Football management with a graphical 2D match engine for the first time in Championship Manager, released in an unfinished state that its makers later admitted. It catches the series at a turning point.