Games released on May 5
Four games that still hold up, from Wolfenstein 3D in 1992 to Prey in 2017
-
Wolfenstein 3D 1992
Turned 34 this year DOS
An Allied spy escapes Castle Wolfenstein and fights through Nazi guards, soldiers and dogs one level at a time, in a 1992 shooter that was released as shareware with a free first episode.
-
Plants vs. Zombies 2009
Turned 17 this year
A tower defense game from PopCap in which a homeowner plants defenders on a lawn of lanes, collecting sun to grow them, against waves of zombies that each have a weakness.
-
Kathy Rain 2016
Kathy, a journalism student who rides a chopper, goes back to her hometown in the 1990s to look into her grandfather's death, and finds the case he left unsolved, in a mystery in the manner of Twin Peaks.
-
Prey 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Morgan Yu wakes up aboard Talos I, a station orbiting the Moon in 2032, and finds it overrun by aliens called the Typhon. Some of them, the Mimics, hide by turning into ordinary objects.
