Games released on October 23
14 games that still hold up, from Super Mario Bros. 3 in 1988 to Gwent: The Witcher Card Game in 2018
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Super Mario Bros. 3 1988
Turned 38 this year NES
Bowser's children steal the wands of seven kingdoms and turn their kings into animals, and Mario and Luigi travel across eight worlds to put things right.
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Vampire: Master of Darkness 1992
Turned 34 this year Game Gear
A psychologist with a Ouija board hunts the vampire behind a series of murders in London, through a wax museum, a cemetery and a castle, in a platformer for the Game Gear and Master System.
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Grand Theft Auto III 2001
Turned 25 this year PlayStation 2
Betrayed and shot by his girlfriend Catalina during a bank heist, the silent criminal Claude seeks revenge in Liberty City, a city loosely based on New York that carries on around him.
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 2002
Turned 24 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
A skateboarding game that took the clock away: the levels are open, you skate about them as long as you like, and the goals are handed out by the people standing in them.
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Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation 2007
Turned 19 this year Xbox 360
As a fighter pilot you destroy targets in the air and on the ground across fifteen missions, in a wide range of licensed jets flown with simplified arcade controls. It was the first Ace Combat with downloadable content.
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Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles 2007
Turned 19 this year PSP
A 2.5D remake of Rondo of Blood, a game that had never left Japan, with the original included on the same disc and new routes that lead to different endings.
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Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure 2007
Turned 19 this year Wii
The aspiring pirate Zack and his monkey friend Wiki go after a treasure stage by stage, in a Capcom puzzle adventure played by pointing and gesturing with the Wii Remote.
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Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction 2007
Turned 19 this year PlayStation 3
Ratchet and Clank arrive on the PlayStation 3, exploring worlds with the wrench and exotic weapons found along the way, and every free fall is steered by tilting the SIXAXIS controller.
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Hotline Miami 2012
Turned 14 this year
In Miami in 1989, a silent man in an animal mask is sent across the city by messages on his answering machine to massacre the Russian mafia. It helped popularise synthwave.
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Forza Horizon 2012
Turned 14 this year Xbox 360
The Horizon Festival brings street racing to the closed public roads of Colorado, and you climb its ranks by winning races and building your popularity.
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The Unfinished Swan 2012
Turned 14 this year PlayStation 3
A boy follows a swan out of a painting into a white world where you reveal everything by throwing black paint, in a short adventure for the PlayStation 3.
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Path of Exile 2013
Turned 13 this year
An action role playing game from New Zealand, made by Diablo II players who built its spiritual successor themselves, in which you are an exile washed up on Wraeclast.
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse 2014
Turned 12 this year Nintendo 3DS
Shantae, who has lost her genie powers, teams up with her old enemy Risky Boots to save Sequin Land from the Pirate Master, in the third Shantae.
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Gwent: The Witcher Card Game 2018
Turned 8 this year
A free to play digital card game named after the one in The Witcher, in which you win two of three rounds on two rows, with decks from six factions and their leaders.
