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Games released on October 29

10 games that still hold up, from Castlevania: Rondo of Blood in 1993 to Battlefield 4 in 2013

  1. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood 1993

    Turned 33 this year TurboGrafx-16

    Richter Belmont sets out to rescue his lover Annette from Dracula, and frees Maria Renard on the way, who becomes a second hero. It was first released only in Japan.

  2. Fallout 2 1998

    Turned 28 this year

    Eighty years after the first Fallout, the grandchild of its hero sets out to save a small West Coast village during a drought. It was one of the first games to let you marry someone of the same sex.

    $2.24 on Fanatical -78%

  3. Legend of Legaia 1998

    Turned 28 this year PlayStation

    A PlayStation role playing game whose turn based fights are put together by hand, attack commands entered in the order that unlocks Arts, powerful techniques that chain when their sequences overlap.

  4. Rayman 2: The Great Escape 1999

    Turned 27 this year Nintendo 64

    Rayman has to save the Fairy Glade from Admiral Razorbeard's robotic pirates in a 1999 3D platformer, collecting lums that unlock the story of each world.

  5. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2002

    Turned 24 this year PlayStation 2

    In 1986, Tommy Vercetti builds a criminal empire in Vice City, a city based on Miami, to a soundtrack of more than 113 songs and ads, mostly 1980s rock and pop.

  6. Call of Duty 2003

    Turned 23 this year

    A Second World War shooter told through American, British and Soviet campaigns, where AI soldiers fight beside you and react to what happens. It began Call of Duty.

  7. Bayonetta 2009

    Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    The witch Bayonetta, who has lost her memories, fights the angels of Heaven to stop an apocalypse, in an action game directed by Hideki Kamiya.

    $5.59 on Fanatical -72%

  8. Sin & Punishment: Star Successor 2009

    Turned 17 this year Wii

    A rail shooter for the Wii in which Isa, the son of the first game's heroes, and a mysterious young woman named Kachi run, fly, dodge and slash while aiming freely.

  9. Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag 2013

    Turned 13 this year Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One

    The Welsh pirate Edward Kenway captains the Jackdaw across the West Indies between 1715 and 1722, in the Golden Age of Piracy, among Havana, Kingston and Nassau.

  10. Battlefield 4 2013

    Turned 13 this year PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One

    A fictional War of 2020 is fought with weapons that can be reshaped with attachments, on multiplayer maps that each have a moment that changes them, such as a skyscraper coming down.