Games released on March 4
Eight games that still hold up, from Turok: Dinosaur Hunter in 1997 to Ultimate Chicken Horse in 2016
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Turok: Dinosaur Hunter 1997
Turned 29 this year Nintendo 64
Turok, a warrior armed with anything from a bow to high tech guns, crosses jungles full of dinosaurs and poachers to find the pieces of an ancient weapon before an overlord called the Campaigner can get hold of it.
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Freelancer 2003
Turned 23 this year
In the Sirius sector of 2960, shared by four houses each modelled on a real era, the pilot Edison Trent works to save it from a mysterious alien force.
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Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven 2003
Turned 23 this year PlayStation 2
Three fighters, the ninja Rikimaru, the kunoichi Ayame and the village doctor Tesshu, follow paths that meet in the struggle for the Three Jewels against the wizard Tenrai.
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God of War: Chains of Olympus 2008
Turned 18 this year PSP
A God of War for the PSP in which Kratos, a Spartan still serving the gods of Olympus, is guided by Athena to find the Sun God Helios.
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South Park: The Stick of Truth 2014
Turned 12 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The New Kid moves to South Park and is pulled into the kids' make believe war, in a role playing game built as a playable episode of the show.
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Tormentum: Dark Sorrow 2015
Turned 11 this year
A nameless hooded figure, imprisoned in a nightmarish castle, searches for a remembered stone sculpture to earn redemption, in art drawn from the painters Giger and Beksiński.
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Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight 2016
An action platformer set four hundred years before the first Momodora, in which Kaho, a priestess, travels to the Kingdom of Karst to stop a spreading curse.
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Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016
A party game in which each round every player adds one piece to an empty level with a flag at the other end, then everyone runs it, with scoring that makes you build a level hard enough to kill your friends and still clear it yourself.
