Games released on November 11
14 games that still hold up, from Dragon Ball Z: Idainaru Son Goku Densetsu in 1994 to Dishonored 2 in 2016
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Dragon Ball Z: Idainaru Son Goku Densetsu 1994
Turned 32 this year TurboGrafx-16
Gohan and the others tell Goten, who never knew his father, the stories of Goku's seven biggest battles up to the Cell Games, and each one becomes a fight to play.
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble 1994
Turned 32 this year Game Gear
Sonic or Tails runs through six zones on the Game Gear to keep the Chaos Emeralds out of Robotnik's hands, each with a set of power ups that only they can use, in a 1994 platformer.
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Age of Wonders 1999
Turned 27 this year
A turn based fantasy strategy game of twelve races, on procedural or custom maps, that combines empire building, role playing and tactical combat.
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ChuChu Rocket! 1999
Turned 27 this year Dreamcast
Mice have to be led into their escape rockets with arrows laid on the board while cats run loose, and in a match of four the cats can be steered into the others' rockets instead.
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Beyond Good & Evil 2003
Turned 23 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
On Hillys, a mining planet besieged by the alien DomZ and ruled by the Alpha Sections, the photojournalist Jade works with a resistance movement to expose a conspiracy, in a game by Michel Ancel.
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Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando 2003
Turned 23 this year PlayStation 2
Ratchet and Clank, with Angela Cross, try to unravel a conspiracy in the Bogon Galaxy, in the second Ratchet & Clank.
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Legacy of Kain: Defiance 2003
Turned 23 this year PlayStation 2, Xbox
Kain, a vampire lord, and Raziel, his lieutenant turned wraith, both playable, follow each other back through the past of Nosgoth, each with his own form of the Soul Reaver.
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Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories 2004
Turned 22 this year Game Boy Advance
Sora and his friends explore Castle Oblivion against Organization XIII, building rooms from map cards and fighting with a deck of cards, in a Kingdom Hearts for the Game Boy Advance.
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Resistance: Fall of Man 2006
Turned 20 this year PlayStation 3
In an alternate 1951, Sergeant Nathan Hale and the human resistance try to drive an alien like invasion out of Britain, in a 2006 first person shooter for the PlayStation 3.
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Mirror's Edge 2008
Turned 18 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A first person game about running, in which Faith Connors, a parkour courier, jumps between rooftops, runs along walls and slides down zip lines, keeping her momentum.
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Call of Duty: World at War 2008
Turned 18 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A US Marine in the Pacific and a Soviet soldier on the Eastern Front fight the last years of World War II, in a Treyarch shooter with four player co-op across most of the campaign.
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Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together 2010
Turned 16 this year PSP
Denam Pavel, a rebellious orphan, joins the resistance in the civil war over Valeria, where his choices branch the story and a Wheel of Fortune lets you rewind them.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 2011
Turned 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
As the Last Dragonborn, you are meant to stop the dragon Alduin in Skyrim, a cold northern province of Tamriel, though the story can wait for as long as you like while you go anywhere else.
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Dishonored 2 2016
Turned 10 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
After the witch Delilah Copperspoon deposes Empress Emily Kaldwin, Emily or Corvo, each with powers of their own, sets out through the city of Karnaca to take the throne back.
