Games released on October 9
Five games that still hold up, from Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II in 1997 to XCOM: Enemy Unknown in 2012
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Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II 1997
Turned 29 this year
A year after Return of the Jedi, the mercenary Kyle Katarn discovers his link to the Force and to the Valley of the Jedi, an ancient source of power.
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MediEvil 1998
Turned 28 this year PlayStation
Sir Daniel Fortesque, a knight who died a hundred years ago, comes back to stop the sorcerer Zarok across twenty levels, and can rip off his own arm to use as a weapon, in a 1998 PlayStation adventure.
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Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2002
Turned 24 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
A platformer in which Ty, a young Tasmanian tiger who fights with boomerangs, hunts for Thunder Eggs through hub zones and their levels to free his family from the Dreaming.
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Dishonored 2012
Turned 14 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
In Arkane's first person stealth game, Corvo Attano is framed for the murder of the Empress and works his way through Dunwall, a plague ridden city modelled on London and Edinburgh.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2012
Turned 14 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
In an alternate 2015, you command XCOM, a multinational force against an alien invasion, in Firaxis's reimagining of the 1994 UFO: Enemy Unknown.
