Games released on September 18
10 games that still hold up, from Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! in 1987 to Plague Inc: Evolved in 2015
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Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 1987
Turned 39 this year NES
In this NES boxing game, Little Mac works his way up through three circuits to a last bout with Mike Tyson, against fourteen opponents who each fight to a set pattern.
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Defenders of Oasis 1992
Turned 34 this year Game Gear
A prince flees an invading empire with a ship captain's son and a genie whose lamp you upgrade with gold, in an Arabian Nights role-playing game made for the Sega Game Gear.
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 1997
Turned 29 this year PlayStation
Abe, a slave at a meat processing plant, escapes and tries to free as many fellow Mudokons as he can, in the first of a planned five part Oddworld series.
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Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom 1998
Turned 28 this year
As captain of the palace guards you lead soldiers and citizens to victory in a medieval real time strategy game, across a campaign of twenty scenarios.
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Spider-Man: Mysterio's Menace 2001
Turned 25 this year Game Boy Advance
A news report sends Spider-Man after a string of crimes all in one night, the work of Rhino, Electro, Scorpion and others led by Mysterio, the Master of Illusion, on the Game Boy Advance.
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Maximo vs. Army of Zin 2003
Turned 23 this year PlayStation 2
Maximo and Grim the Reaper set out against the Army of Zin, mechanical creatures powered by lost souls, while his armour breaks away piece by piece down to his boxer shorts.
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World in Conflict 2007
Turned 19 this year
In an alternate 1989 an economic collapse leads to war, and in this real time tactics game units are bought with reinforcement points and dropped in from the air.
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Pokémon White Version 2010
Turned 16 this year Nintendo DS
A young Trainer sets out across Unova with a single Pokémon and builds a team of six from the hundreds caught along the way, in the games that opened the fifth generation, Black and White.
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Borderlands 2 2012
Turned 14 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
On the planet Pandora, four new Vault Hunters join a resistance against the tyrannical Handsome Jack, in a shooter whose guns are generated from parts. Up to four can play together, online or on split screen.
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Plague Inc: Evolved 2015
Turned 11 this year Xbox One
A pathogen of your own design sets out to wipe out humanity, in a strategy simulation of a pandemic inspired by the film Contagion, where every mutation is a race against the cure.
