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Games released on November 6

Nine games that still hold up, from Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back in 1997 to Mini Metro in 2015

  1. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back 1997

    Turned 29 this year PlayStation

    Doctor Neo Cortex tricks Crash into gathering 25 crystals, from Warp Rooms of five levels each that can be taken in any order, with river rides, ceiling climbs and a jetpack along the way.

  2. Escape from Monkey Island 2000

    Turned 26 this year

    Guybrush Threepwood has to restore his wife to office and stop a plot to make the Caribbean a tourist trap, in the fourth Monkey Island, the first in 3D and played with keyboard or joystick.

  3. SSX Tricky 2001

    Turned 25 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2

    Twelve riders race and trick down themed courses, and every uber trick landed, feet off the board, fills the boost, with six of them spelling TRICKY for infinite boost to the end of the race.

  4. Ratchet & Clank 2002

    Turned 24 this year PlayStation 2

    Ratchet, a Lombax, teams up with the robot Clank to stop Chairman Drek, who plans to destroy other planets to build a new one.

  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003

    Turned 23 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox

    A third person hack and slash that adapts the films The Two Towers and The Return of the King, released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2 and Windows.

  6. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga 2007

    Turned 19 this year Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    A LEGO game that puts the two earlier Lego Star Wars games together, covering Episodes I to VI in 36 story levels.

  7. Halo 4 2012

    Turned 14 this year Xbox 360

    The Master Chief wakes from cryo sleep above Requiem, a Forerunner planet, and fights the Covenant and the Prometheans, in the first main Halo made without the series' original studio.

  8. Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus 2013

    Turned 13 this year PlayStation 3

    Ratchet and Clank stop creatures from another dimension across five planets, with magnetic boots, gravity beams and a Winteriser that turns enemies into snowmen, in a 2013 PlayStation 3 platform shooter.

  9. Mini Metro 2015

    Turned 11 this year

    You draw the rail lines of a growing city as stations appear as circles, triangles, squares and stars, and trains carry the passengers by themselves. Let one station overcrowd and the game is over.

    $6.99 on Steam -30%