10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Are Over 20 Years Old

That's right grandpa, you're old; you may remember the original 150, their strengths, weaknesses, evolutions with perfect clarity but time has left you behind, there's 802 Pokemon now by the way just to add salt to the wound. It's super effective.

Now Pokemon won't celebrate its 20th birthday in America or Europe until 2019 because the first games Pokemon Red and Green (wha?) where released in Japan first (yes Pokemon is Japanese, wouldn't think it would you?) and the process of converting the Japanese text into English took a stupidly long time. It stands to reason when you look at how much text goes into the game, with enough paper and time you could feasibly play it as a tabletop game, whether a big enough table exists is another question.

Technicalities aside Pokemon is 20, but it continues on. It tends to be a recurring theme, the games we remember the most are still with us in some form or another. This is down to the industry wanting to make a buck (Pound, Euro, Yen etc...) and our unwillingness to see these stories and characters leave our lives.