Games released on October 15
Nine games that still hold up, from Top Gunner in 1986 to Disco Elysium in 2019
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Top Gunner 1986
Two armed jeeps drive into enemy territory to rescue prisoners of war, with a turret that always shoots upward and grenades that become missiles, in an arcade game known in Japan as Jackal.
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Pac-Man World 1999
Turned 27 this year PlayStation
Someone claiming to be the real Pac-Man holds his family hostage on Ghost Island, and Pac-Man crosses six worlds in 3D to free them, in a game made to keep the feel of the original arcade.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 2002
Turned 24 this year
An amusement park builder from Chris Sawyer in which you run parks to meet a scenario's goals while keeping the money coming in, with editors to design coasters of your own.
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne 2003
Turned 23 this year
Two years after the first game, Max Payne is back at work as an NYPD detective, in a screenplay by Sam Lake about three times as long as the first game's, with Mona Sax playable in several levels.
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Steins;Gate 2009
Turned 17 this year Xbox 360
Rintaro Okabe, an 18 year old student in Akihabara in the summer of 2010, is drawn into a time travel story, in a visual novel whose choices come through his phone. Answering a call or replying to a text leads toward one of several endings.
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Legend of Grimrock 2 2014
Turned 12 this year
A party of prisoners is shipwrecked in a storm on the mysterious Isle of Nex, where the elusive Island Master watches their progress.
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Human Resource Machine 2015
Turned 11 this year Wii U
A puzzle game that is assembly language dressed as an office, in which a worker carries boxes from an inbox to an outbox under a program you write, with promotions that bring harder puzzles.
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Disco Elysium 2019
Turned 7 this year
A detective who has lost his memory to drink and drugs tries to solve a murder in the city of Revachol, with no combat, only dice rolls and the twenty four voices of his own skills arguing in his head.
