Games released on October 19
Eight games that still hold up, from Disney's Aladdin in 1993 to Inscryption in 2021
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Disney's Aladdin 1993
Turned 33 this year Genesis
Disney animators drew over a thousand frames by hand for this Mega Drive platformer of the 1992 film, which Virgin digitized on a six month schedule.
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Crash Team Racing 1999
Turned 27 this year PlayStation
Naughty Dog's kart racer puts fifteen characters on narrow tracks where the pack stays bunched, and timing a drift right chains up to three boosts in one slide. Adventure mode links the tracks through a hub world with bosses.
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Stronghold 2001
The king is captured while invading a barbarian kingdom and four lords seize his realm, so a young commander, helped by two loyal lords, has to take it back county by county.
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Fallout: New Vegas 2010
Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A courier who survived an attempt on their life is pulled into a conflict between rival factions in the Mojave Desert in 2281. It holds the record for the most dialogue lines in a single player role playing game.
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DJ Hero 2 2010
Turned 16 this year Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The sequel to DJ Hero brings back the turntable controller and adds a freestyle mode, where you crossfade, scratch and drop in samples your own way during marked parts of a mix.
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Vanquish 2010
Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A shooter directed by Shinji Mikami, who wanted Casshern with guns, in which Sam Gideon wears a prototype suit with jets in its thighs on a space colony seized by the Order of the Russian Star.
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SoulCalibur VI 2018
Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A reboot that revisits the events of the first Soulcalibur, in the seventh main game of the series, with weapon fights in 3D.
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Inscryption 2021
Turned 5 this year
Across the table in a cabin, a figure deals you into a card game where creatures are sacrificed to summon stronger ones, and between hands the cabin itself is a puzzle to search.
