Games released on November 23
Four games that still hold up, from SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle in 1999 to Jump Ultimate Stars in 2006
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SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle 1999
Turns 27 this year
A tactical shooter made with the advice of LAPD SWAT, in which you lead an element through sixteen missions in Los Angeles in 2005, with arrests rather than kills as the point.
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World of Warcraft 2004
Turns 22 this year
Azeroth four years after Warcraft III, the Alliance against the Horde, levelled up through quests and finished in raids of forty. In 2019 a second set of servers brought the 2004 game back as it was.
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Animal Crossing: Wild World 2005
Turns 21 this year Nintendo DS
A village of animal neighbors on the DS that follows the real clock and calendar, with snow in the cold months, holidays on their dates and fish and insects that change with the season.
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Jump Ultimate Stars 2006
Turns 20 this year Nintendo DS
A crossover fighter of 41 shonen manga series on the DS, where each team is a deck of manga panels laid out on a grid, and the heroes on them are Knowledge, Strength or Laughter, beating each other like rock, paper, scissors.
