Games released on September 28
Seven games that still hold up, from Mega Man 3 in 1990 to Golf Story in 2017
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Mega Man 3 1990
Turned 36 this year NES
Mega Man helps Doctor Light and a supposedly reformed Doctor Wily collect parts for a peacekeeping robot by beating eight Robot Masters gone haywire, in a 1990 NES platformer.
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Pokémon Pearl Version 2006
Turned 20 this year Nintendo DS
A young trainer sets out to become the Pokémon League Champion, in the DS games Diamond and Pearl, which brought a day and night cycle and trades over Wi-Fi to the series.
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The Binding of Isaac 2011
A game begun in a week long jam by Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl, in which Isaac drops through a trapdoor into a basement of rooms generated afresh each run, with his tears as bullets.
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Total War: Warhammer II 2017
Turned 9 this year
A Skaven rocket disguised as a comet disrupts the Great Vortex, and four factions answer it, the High Elves and Lizardmen to steady it and the Dark Elves and Skaven to seize its power.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4
Rean Schwarzer, now an instructor, teaches a new Class VII at a military academy and is sent to settle conflicts across Erebonia, many of them stirred up by the Ouroboros group.
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Golf Story 2017
Turned 9 this year Switch
A down on his luck golfer takes up the game his father taught him and plays through odd golf courses full of side quests and minigames, in a 16 bit style adventure for the Nintendo Switch.
