Games released on October 27
12 games that still hold up, from Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon in 1994 to Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017
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Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon 1994
Turned 32 this year DOS
The detective Tex Murphy is unwittingly drawn into the affairs of a dangerous cult, in the third Tex Murphy game, an interactive movie in 3D.
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Tony Hawk's Underground 2003
Turned 23 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
You create your own skater rather than pick a professional, then explore levels and land tricks to complete goals, keeping your balance through every grind and manual.
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LittleBigPlanet 2008
Turned 18 this year PlayStation 3
A platform game built around creation, in which Sackboy, a customizable rag doll, runs through fifty levels, and a level editor lets you build your own from the Popit.
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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time 2009
Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3
Ratchet crosses planets and moons on hoverboots and in a ship he flies freely between them, while Clank solves puzzles by recording up to a minute of his actions and working beside as many as four copies of himself.
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DJ Hero 2009
Turned 17 this year Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
A turntable takes the place of the guitar, and two songs are mixed into one by tapping the beats, moving the crossfader and scratching, across 94 remixes with DJs such as Grandmaster Flash and Daft Punk.
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Torchlight 2009
Turned 17 this year
An action role playing game made in about eleven months by Travis Baldree and veterans of Blizzard North and Flagship, in which a lone hero goes down through dungeons laid out afresh below the mining town of Torchlight.
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League of Legends 2009
Turned 17 this year
Two teams of five champions with unique abilities fight to destroy each other's Nexus on Summoner's Rift, in Riot's free to play game, with an annual World Championship.
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Pinball FX2 2010
Turned 16 this year Xbox 360
Pinball played by the rules of a real machine, plunger, flippers and nudges, on tables whose ball has the weight of a real one, and a Superscore that judges your play across every table at once.
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Halo 5: Guardians 2015
Turned 11 this year Xbox One
Master Chief's Blue Team goes after Cortana while Fireteam Osiris hunts them, in an Xbox One Halo with 24 player Warzone battles, from 343 Industries.
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Super Mario Odyssey 2017
Turned 9 this year Switch
Bowser kidnaps Peach to force her into marriage, and Mario sets out after him with Cappy aboard the Odyssey, across fourteen kingdoms.
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Assassin's Creed Origins 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Bayek of Siwa, a Medjay, and his wife Aya are the heroes of an open world set in Ptolemaic Egypt during Cleopatra's reign. A Discovery Tour removes the combat for guided tours of ancient Egypt.
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
In an alternate 1961 where the Nazis won the Second World War, William Blazkowicz fights on against their regime, in the sequel to The New Order.
