Games released on October 20
Seven games that still hold up, from Terranigma in 1995 to Rusty Lake: Roots in 2016
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Terranigma 1995
Turned 31 this year SNES
Ark revives the world over four chapters, its towns growing and its dungeons changing as he goes, in a Quintet role playing game never released in North America.
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Europa Universalis 2000
Turned 26 this year
Three hundred years of history, from 1492 to Napoleon's rise in 1792, are played out by one of seven European nations through war, diplomacy and colonies, in a grand strategy game drawn from a French board game.
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Scaler 2004
Turned 22 this year PlayStation 2, Xbox
A boy who loves lizards stumbles on a plot to rule the world with mutated ones, and can turn into five of them himself, from a lizard that carries bombs to one that flies.
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Borderlands 2009
Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A first person shooter with a role playing game's levels, skill trees and loot, in which four Vault Hunters come to the planet Pandora after a Vault. It began the Borderlands series.
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Super Meat Boy 2010
Turned 16 this year Xbox 360
Meat Boy runs, jumps and wall slides through more than 300 short levels, hardly any of them longer than thirty seconds, to rescue Bandage Girl.
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Costume Quest 2010
Turned 16 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A child goes trick or treating with a twin who is carried off by a monster, and the costumes built along the way turn the children into giant versions of whatever they dressed as when a fight starts.
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Rusty Lake: Roots 2016
James Vanderboom plants a seed in his garden and his family tree starts to grow, a puzzle for each relative over several generations, in a dark point and click adventure.
