Games released on September 22
13 games that still hold up, from International Superstar Soccer Deluxe in 1995 to Project CARS 2 in 2017
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International Superstar Soccer Deluxe 1995
Turned 31 this year SNES
A football game with thirty six national teams, none of them licensed, so every player has a made up name.
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis 1999
Turned 27 this year PlayStation
Jill Valentine, a former elite agent, tries to escape a Raccoon City overrun by zombies, in a story that overlaps Resident Evil 2. Choices along the way change how the story unfolds and which ending you reach.
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear 1999
Turned 27 this year
Rainbow, a secret counterterrorist organization, follows nuclear terrorism across Eastern Europe in this tactical shooter, where a single bullet can kill and planning counts for more than firepower.
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Rome: Total War 2004
Turned 22 this year
In the third Total War, a campaign from 270 BC to 14 AD is run turn by turn on an overhead map, and its wars are fought out in real time 3D battles where morale can send units running.
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Drill Dozer 2005
Turned 21 this year Game Boy Advance
Jill climbs into her Drill Dozer mech to take back a red diamond from the Skullkers, drilling through walls, enemies and tunnels with a drill that spins both ways and a cartridge that rumbles.
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Kirby Super Star Ultra 2008
Turned 18 this year Nintendo DS
A DS remake of the 1996 Kirby Super Star, made up of several separate games behind one menu, with four more added.
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Mega Man 9 2008
Turned 18 this year Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Mega Man takes on eight Robot Masters in any order, gaining a weapon from each, and each master is weak to one of them. It came out only as a download at first, on WiiWare, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.
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Halo 3: ODST 2009
Turned 17 this year Xbox 360
Marines drop into the ruined city of New Mombasa to find their missing squad, in a quiet noir story of the Halo series with jazz music and a wave based Firefight mode for co-op.
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Dark Souls 2011
Turned 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The Chosen Undead escapes an asylum and travels through Lordran, a kingdom whose areas fold back onto each other through shortcuts, in FromSoftware's action role playing game. Its series went on to inspire a genre, the Soulslike.
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Where's My Water? 2011
A puzzle game for the iPhone in which Swampy, an alligator in the sewers, wants a bath and you dig through the dirt with a finger so the water runs to his tub. It was Disney's first original character for a phone.
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Soma 2015
Turned 11 this year PlayStation 4
Simon Jarrett wakes in 2104 in PATHOS-II, a decaying research facility under the North Atlantic whose machines show human like consciousness, in a horror game with no weapons.
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Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017
Turned 9 this year
In a visual novel given away free, a student reluctantly joins his high school literature club, and each day ends with a poem whose words win over one of its members. It starts as a light hearted dating simulator and turns into a psychological horror game.
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Project CARS 2 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A motorsport simulator of 189 cars and 140 layouts, rallycross among them, where LiveTrack 3.0 changes the track lap by lap as the temperature shifts and the weather comes and goes.
