Games released on November 15
18 games that still hold up, from Magical Chase in 1991 to Watch Dogs 2 in 2016
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Magical Chase 1991
Turns 35 this year TurboGrafx-16
An apprentice witch named Ripple and two star maiden friends chase down the demons she released from a forbidden book, shooting through stages and spending crystals in a pumpkin headed shopkeeper's store.
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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans 1994
Turns 32 this year DOS
The humans of Azeroth face the invading orcs in the first Warcraft, a real time strategy game of small towns, harvests and armies, with a few missions where neither side can make more troops.
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Earthworm Jim 2 1995
Turns 31 this year SNES, Genesis
Earthworm Jim chases Psy-Crow through weird levels to rescue a kidnapped princess, and most levels have a gimmick of their own, from flying a balloon bomb to bouncing puppies.
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Halo: Combat Evolved 2001
Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced supersoldier, and the AI Cortana try to uncover the secrets of Halo, a ring shaped world, while fighting the Covenant in the 26th century. It modernized the first person shooter.
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Wizardry 8 2001
A party of six you build yourself, from races and classes balanced so that many mixes work, moves in first person through a world where monsters are always seen coming before each turn based fight.
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Project Gotham Racing 2001
Speed alone is not enough, since power slides, overtakes and driving on two wheels earn the Kudos points that count, and a crash loses them, in the Xbox launch game that began Project Gotham Racing.
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Dead or Alive 3 2001
A 3D fighting game and a launch title for the Xbox, in which fighters enter a tournament run by DOATEC, whose Omega Project aims to create the ultimate human weapon.
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Need for Speed: Underground 2 2004
Turns 22 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Bayview is an open city where you drive between the races instead of picking them from a menu, a first for Need for Speed. Tuning runs deep, down to a dyno, and nitrous refills with style points.
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Metroid Prime 2: Echoes 2004
Turns 22 this year GameCube
Sent to rescue Galactic Federation Marines near the planet Aether, Samus finds them slaughtered by the Ing, a race from a dark twin of the planet, and has to travel between the two.
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Need for Speed: Most Wanted 2005
Turns 21 this year Xbox 360
In EA Canada's street racer, you climb Rockport's Blacklist of illegal racers one by one, while police pursuits grow fiercer the longer they last, with roadblocks, spike strips and helicopters.
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Sonic Rush 2005
Turns 21 this year Nintendo DS
Sonic and Blaze the Cat boost through side scrolling levels spread across both DS screens, with 3D bosses, a touch screen special stage and a techno soundtrack.
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Rayman Origins 2011
Turns 15 this year Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Rayman, Globox and two Teensies accidentally unleash the Darktoons on the Glade of Dreams and set out to clear them, with up to four local players joining or leaving at any time.
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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 2011
Turns 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Capcom's characters and Marvel's heroes form teams of three and swap in at any point of a match, in the updated Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which grows the roster to 36.
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Saints Row: The Third 2011
Turns 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
An open world game in which the Saints, now a media empire, break out of the Syndicate's jet over Steelport after a bank robbery staged to promote their own film goes wrong.
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Assassin's Creed Revelations 2011
Turns 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
An open world stealth game with three protagonists, Ezio, Altaïr and Desmond, in which an ageing Ezio trades a broken Hidden Blade for a Hookblade to get around.
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Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed 2012
Turns 14 this year Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360
A kart racing game with more than twenty Sega characters, in which blue gates change each vehicle between a car, a boat and a plane partway round a track.
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Resogun 2013
Turns 13 this year PlayStation 4
Housemarque's shooter set around cylindrical worlds built of voxels, where clearing the enemies is the goal and rescuing trapped humans is the bonus.
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Watch Dogs 2 2016
Turns 10 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
An open world game that took the series from a grey Chicago to a sunny Bay Area, in which Marcus Holloway and the hacktivists of DedSec are against Blume and its system that watches the city.
