I think I’ve got an idea of a way to make somewhat of an annual thing where I will post games that have turned X years old. There’s a guy who posts daily screenshots so I got an idea to do something similar.
So, what games are turning a little older in 2026?
The 40-Year Old Class of 1986
Space Quest I, Chiller, Bubble Bobble, Hopping Mappy, RYGAR, Dragon Quest I, Metroid for NES, Kid Icarus, King’s Quest III, Adventure Island, Arkanoid, Castlevania, Out Run, Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, The Legend of Zelda, Rampage
The 30-Year Old Class of 1996
Diablo, Soul Edge, Tekken 2, Resident Evil, Command and Conquer, Super Mario RPG, Sid Meier’s Civilization II, Duke Nukem 3D, NIGHTS Into Dream, Pokemon Red and Green, Descent II, House of the Dead, Crash Bandicoot, Dead or Alive, Super Mario 64, Tomb Raider, PaRappa the Rapper, X-Men vs Street Fighter, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
The 20-Year Old Class of 2006
Prey, Saints Row, Okami, Bully (PS2), The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Mother 3, Cooking Mama, New Super Mario Bros, Garry’s Mod, Dwarf Fortress, Guitar Hero, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Yakuza 2, Final Fantasy X-2, Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth 2, Dead Rising, Half-Life 2: Episode One
The 10-Year Old Class of 2016
Stardew Valley, Pokemon Sun and Moon, Persona 5, Batman: Telltale Series, Pokemon GO, Dead By Daylight, Overwatch, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Yakuza Kiwami, Final Fantasy XV, Civilization VI, Dishonored 2, DOOM, Titanfall 2, Yakuza 6, X-COM 2, Battlefield 1, Hitman
If there’s any I missed, feel free to talk about below.
Time for a 20-year anniversary play of Mother 3!
mmm no. nope. pokemon red/blue was maybe 15 years ago. and oblivion is pretty recent.
nope time hasn’t really moved on that much. that cant be right …
jk
To be fair I’ve aged 30 years in the past 5
Assuming you don’t live in Japan, Red/Blue actually is slightly more recent than OP led you to think. JP Red/Green was 1996, but international Red/Blue was 1998. Assuming you don’t live in Japan, you get two years of youth back.
STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD, SIR!
Here’s something I do that helps with “feeling old” when people point out things that happened 20 or so years ago.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion came out 20 years ago, but what was I actually doing 20 years ago? I was like 10 or 11 years old in middle school and my brother’s friend let him borrow the game over the weekend. It was my first open world RPG and I was so excited to play it and could barely even comprehend how big it was. I’ve basically lived two thirds of my life since then. My first job, moving out of my parents, my first apartment, getting my drivers license, my first car, my first real girlfriend, all of my neices and nephews being born, going to an amusement park for the first time, going to a movie theater for the first time, and basically everything else I can think of because I sure as shit don’t remember much from before I was 10 years old. So pretty much everything important that has ever happened in my entire life was between the time of Oblivion coming out and now.
So yeah, we are definitely getting older. But that doesn’t mean the time in between was just nothing. It feels like 2006 was yesterday because we often gloss over everything in between and don’t really focus on what was actually going on in our lives at the time.
Edit: spelling
I can hear the Out Run music in my head like it’s been yesterday.
No way it’s been 40 years…Hitman in 10 years club? You might’ve mixed in the reboot. OG Hitman was released in 2000, which makes it 26 yrs old.
10 years ago, it was also called hitman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_(2016_video_game)?wprov=sfla1
The original Japanese release of The Legend of Zelda was February 21, 1986, making it 40 in just under three weeks.
North American and European releases were in the summer and fall of 1987, though.
Don’t add Pokemon Go in the 10 years club…
I remember being in yr11, Classmate comes in and says “have you heard of Pokemon Go?” I didn’t even have a mobile phone at that time (thanks mom/dad/bible) so obviously no.
10 years after highschool, and if my school DID had those 10 year reunion things like the movies, I have nothing to share…
I know these kinds of posts absolutely mummify me but I read them anyway…
The 20-Year Old Class of 2006
GOD HAND
Casually dropping Okami and God Hand in the same year… Clover were CRACKED.
Too bad neither of those games saved Clover from going under. Quite a damn shame.
fuck I’m old
Dark Souls III for 2016.
WTF, I remember getting Final Fantasy XV day one, getting pissed at the FOMO carnivals, and thinking surely they would rotate back in or all be included at some point. Still absolute bullshit.
Oof, turning 32 next month. Played almost all games from 2006, bit of a reality check haha.
Talk about feeling old I played almost all the games until 2006, but fewer of the list after and hardly from the 2016 one. Not trying to one up but figured good place to comment.
It’s been a fun time seeing progression over the years, haven’t stopped playing since my first Gemini (Atari 2600 knockoff that played the same games) system. Going from 2d squares to a proper video representation has been awesome. I always enjoyed the graphic improvements the gameplay has had its ups and downs but the remembered ones did that part right.
smackdown vs raw 2007 one of the best wrestling games ever alongside no mercy, here comes the pain, and svr 2006
Maybe this is an Avatar/ATLA situation, but as far as I’m aware Prey came out in 2017.
There was indeed an earlier Prey game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2006_video_game)
This is the one I always think of.
Different game. 2006 Prey is pretty dope tho, and it had radio segments featuring AM legend Art Bell!
