Games released on November 17
10 games that still hold up, from Need for Speed: Underground in 2003 to Planet Coaster in 2016
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Need for Speed: Underground 2003
Turns 23 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Street racing in the fictional Olympic City among 20 licensed import tuner cars, such as the Honda Civic Si, the Mazda RX-7 and the Toyota Supra, along a career told as a story.
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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga 2003
Turns 23 this year Game Boy Advance
Mario is the A button and Luigi is the B button, all the time, so every fight is a matter of timing two brothers separately and the world is solved by both. It began the Mario & Luigi series.
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 2004
Turns 22 this year PlayStation 2
Hideo Kojima's stealth game sends the FOX operative Naked Snake into a Soviet jungle in 1964 to rescue a Russian rocket scientist, sabotage a superweapon and eliminate his former mentor, who has defected.
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Assassin's Creed II 2009
Turns 17 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Ezio Auditore, an Assassin in Renaissance Italy between 1476 and 1499, takes on the Templars from Florence to Venice, in memories relived centuries later by his descendant Desmond Miles.
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Left 4 Dead 2 2009
Turns 17 this year Xbox 360
Four new survivors fight through five campaigns of the zombie apocalypse, from Savannah to New Orleans, while an AI Director changes where the enemies come from and what lies on the way.
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LittleBigPlanet 2009
Turns 17 this year PSP
Sackboy travels the world recruiting Creator Curators for a festival, with Stephen Fry narrating, in a LittleBigPlanet for the PSP that keeps the tools for building levels of your own.
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Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX 2010
Turns 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A faster Pac-Man in which the maze changes as you eat, with sleeping ghosts that wake as you pass and follow you in long trains.
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Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch 2011
Turns 15 this year PlayStation 3
Oliver, a young boy, sets out to find a way to bring his recently deceased mother back to life, in a world with animated scenes by Studio Ghibli and music co composed by Joe Hisaishi.
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Planet Coaster 2016
In this theme park game you build rides and roller coasters, and the sandbox mode hands you an empty plot with every ride unlocked and no limit on money.
