Games released on October 24
Seven games that still hold up, from Super Punch-Out!! in 1994 to Kirby's Return to Dream Land in 2011
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Super Punch-Out!! 1994
Turned 32 this year SNES
A boxer fights his way up four circuits of four opponents each to become World Video Boxing Association champion, in a 1994 boxing game for the Super Nintendo.
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Tomb Raider 1996
Turned 30 this year Saturn, PlayStation, DOS
The archaeologist Lara Croft is hired by the businesswoman Jacqueline Natla to find the Scion of Atlantis, through Peru, Greece, Egypt and Atlantis itself.
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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth 2005
Turned 21 this year Xbox
A first-person Lovecraft horror game in which the detective Jack Walters goes to the secretive town of Innsmouth in 1922, with a sanity system that brings hallucinations and panic.
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic 2006
A first person action role playing game in which Sareth, an apprentice wizard, joins an expedition after the Skull of Shadows, kicking enemies into spikes, fires and pits.
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2006
Turned 20 this year Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The heroes of the Marvel Universe join forces against Doctor Doom and his Masters of Evil, in an action role playing game where any four of a huge cast can make up the team.
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land 2011
Kirby and three friends help the alien Magolor recover the five pieces of his crashed ship, the Lor Starcutter, scattered across Popstar and Halcandra, with up to four players together.
