Games released on November 2

Six games that still hold up, from F1 Race in 1984 to God of War: Ghost of Sparta in 2010

1. 

   F1 Race 1984

   Turned 42 this year NES

   A Formula One car races the clock through courses drawn in a fake 3D from flat tiles, in a Famicom game made by a small team at HAL Laboratory led by Satoru Iwata. A touch of another car ends the run.

2. 

   Railroad Tycoon II 1998

   Turned 28 this year

   As chairman of a railroad company you lay track and run trains from the first railways to the present day and beyond, against rivals, train robbers and swings in the economy.

3. 

   Pharaoh 1999

   Turned 27 this year

   A city builder set in ancient Egypt, whose campaign runs through five periods of Egyptian history and promotes you until you become Pharaoh.

4. 

   Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! 1999

   Turned 27 this year PlayStation

   In the second Spyro, a planned vacation ends in the realm of Avalar, where the sorcerer Ripto is causing havoc, and talismans and orbs open the way to him.

5. 

   Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal 2004

   Turned 22 this year PlayStation 2

   Ratchet and Clank cross a fictional universe to stop Doctor Nefarious, a robotic villain, in the third Ratchet & Clank.

6. 

   God of War: Ghost of Sparta 2010

   Turned 16 this year PSP

   Haunted by his mortal past, Kratos learns from his mother in Atlantis that his brother Deimos is still alive, and sets out to free him from the realm of the dead.