Games released on November 16

10 games that still hold up, from Faxanadu in 1987 to Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit in 2010

1. 

   Faxanadu 1987

   Turns 39 this year NES

   A hero crosses fields, towns and dungeons screen by screen, buying weapons with gold and casting magic, in a platformer with role playing whose name joins Famicom and Xanadu.

2. 

   Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! 1999

   Turns 27 this year Nintendo 64, PlayStation

   Buzz Lightyear sets out to rescue Woody through fifteen levels set in places from the film, firing his wrist laser and collecting Pizza Planet tokens won by races, puzzles and mini bosses.

3. 

   Headhunter 2001

   Turns 25 this year Dreamcast

   Jack Wade hunts criminals for the Anti Crime Network in a future city, where guns are banned and the Headhunters carry weapons that paralyse rather than wound, riding his motorcycle between jobs.

4. 

   Half-Life 2 2004

   Turns 22 this year

   Gordon Freeman joins the resistance against the Combine, an alien empire, in City 17, with a gravity gun that pulls objects in from a distance and pushes them away. Many of its puzzles are built on its physics.

5. 

   Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2004

   Turns 22 this year

   In 21st century Los Angeles you are a vampire of whichever Camarilla clan you choose, and the clan changes what you can do and say. It shipped unfinished, and the GOG version includes the community patches.

6. 

   Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 2004

   Turns 22 this year PlayStation 2

   Based on the Dragon Ball Z anime, a fighting game for the PlayStation 2 released in November 2004, the third in the Budokai series.

7. 

   Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin 2006

   Turns 20 this year Nintendo DS

   An action role playing game for the DS, set in Europe during the Second World War, in which Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin try to stop a vampire bringing Dracula back. It is the first Castlevania with cooperative play.

8. 

   Animal Crossing: City Folk 2008

   Turns 18 this year Wii

   A village of animal neighbors follows the real clock, now with a city to visit, online trips to friends' towns and voice chat, in the Wii entry of the Animal Crossing series.

9. 

   Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 2010

   Turns 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

   In Rome between 1500 and 1507, held by the Templars under the Borgia, the Assassins build a brotherhood of recruits to call into a fight or send on missions across Europe.

10. 

    Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2010

    Turns 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    A racing game set in Seacrest County, with two careers side by side, racer and cop, and an Autolog feed of friends' times to beat on every event.