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Thirty years of adventures under his belt and yet, he's still fifteen.

Milestone Celebrations in Video Games.

  • Back to the Future: The Game was released the year of the 25th anniversary of the release of Back to the Future (1985).
  • Capcom loves 'em:
  • Castlevania:
  • Contra 4 was released at the 20th anniversary game for the series, emphasized with its heaps of series Fanservice (although the other type is unlockable).
  • Digimon Adventure (PSP) was developed and released as a part of the 15th Anniversary of the entire Digimon franchise. Coincidentally, the fan translation of this game was released in March 8th, 2018, just one day after the 19th Anniversary of the very anime that inspired this game.
  • Donkey Kong Country - The Trilogy is a fan game made to celebrate Donkey Kong's 40th anniversary.
  • The Wii U version of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was released in 2014, 20 years after the original Donkey Kong Country. Fittingly, the game features numerous nods to the original trilogy and has the Kongs celebrating the titular ape's birthday at the start.
  • Double Dragon: Both Double Dragon Neon and Abobo's Big Adventure were released in 2012, coinciding with the franchise's 25th. Both are wacky parodies of the seminal beat'em up as well as 80s culture in general; Neon takes on 80s music and fashion, while Abobo spoofs the NES library in particular (it's also a lot gorier...).
  • 2025 marked Dragon Ball Legends' 7th anniversary, so its main character, Shallot, was added as a DLC Guest Fighter to the roster of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO.
  • Drakengard 3 was meant as this for the Drakengard series, marking its 10th anniversary.
  • According to Word of God, the release of EarthBound Beginnings on Virtual Console is meant to celebrate EarthBound's 20th anniversary.
  • EA Sports listed Madden NFL 2005 at the 15th anniversary of the series, and released a collector's edition with earlier versions of the game updated with modern rosters. Oddly enough, Madden 2009 was billed as the 20th anniversary, and the would-be Madden 2014 was billed as Madden 25. Math never was EA's strong suit. note 
  • The Elder Scrolls:
  • For the 25th anniversary of the Fallout franchise, an alien-themed update was released for Fallout 76. The game was also free to play for one week, with Amazon Prime members being able to obtain a free copy of the game and Xbox Game Pass members gaining one month of Fallout 1st, Fallout 76's subscription service. Also released was the Post-Apocalyptic Loyalty Simulator (P.A.L.S.), a Fallout themed personality quiz which sorts you in one of the franchise's numerous factions. Fallout Shelter also received an update after several years, which adds new recruitable Duellers to Lunchboxes, additional weapons to equip to Dwellers, a new theme for Diners and Living Quarters, and a new questline which is also alien themed. Amazon also shared its first official look at the Fallout TV series.
  • Final Fantasy:
  • Fruit Ninja:
    • To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Fruit Ninja, the game has received a huge update that added a "Festival" mode, where players could win new Golden Ember blade. Similar special in-game events were also added to many of the games supported by Halfbrick Studios at the time.
    • Fruit Ninja 2 had its worldwide release on the original game's 10th anniversary. Additionally, Fruit Ninja itself was overhauled and ported over to Unity engine with new graphics.
  • Although it missed its anniversary by several weeks, F-Zero 99 celebrated its one year anniversary by releasing a new grand prix containing tracks from the Satellaview version of F-Zero as well as new emotes, decals, and pilot card mods.
  • Ghostbusters: The Video Game was released in 2009, marking the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters (1984). It received a remaster in 2019, marking both its 10th anniversary and the 35th anniversary of the franchise.
  • Gran Turismo 7 was released in 2022 to honor the 25th anniversary of the series.
  • Half-Life 1 came out in November 1998. In November 2008, Valve offered the game to anyone who still didn't own it on Steam for 98 cents. For the game's 25th anniversary in 2023, Valve updated the game to include the Uplink demo, content from the Half-Life: Further Data CD, four new multiplayer maps, Steam Deck support, and various bug fixes and restored content. They also released an hour-long documentary featuring the game's original team.
  • Halo:
    • The first game got a graphically revamped Updated Re-release with bonus story content and a Halo: Reach Nostalgia Level map pack (which could also be obtained as a seperate DLC) for its tenth anniversary. The rerelease was one of the first games developed by 343 Industries, the Halo studio established after Bungie became an indie studio.
    • They did it again for the ten year anniversary of the second game, not just by graphically revamping Halo 2 and adding further story content, but by compiling together the most recent versions of the first four numbered entries (including the before-mentioned H1 and H2 rereleases) into Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which includes support for all four multiplayers (including every map ever released), the digital feature Halo: Nightfall, and access to the Halo 5: Guardians multiplayer beta.
    • Halo Infinite was released close to the 20th anniversary of Combat Evolved, and thus the 20th anniversary of the original Xbox. Also for this milestone, The Master Chief Collection received several new cosmetics for your Spartan, most of which are themed after the original Xbox, in addition to two new armor sets: SPI (a highly-requested armor set which first appeared in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx and became a staple of the Halo Expanded Universe despite never being seen in the games until now) and Orion (based on the pre-release MJOLNIR design from the 1999 Macworld demo).
  • In 1995, Hudson Soft celebrated the tenth anniversary of their All-Japan Caravan Festival with Caravan Shooting Collection, a Compilation Re-release of the games featured in the first three years of the festival (Star Force, Star Soldier, and Hector '87) for the Super Famicom. All three games are presented in their original Family Computer aesthetics.
  • In Ian's Eyes, Blue Norholm Primary School was celebrating its centinary. However, during the celebration, most of the staff and students were zombified by a slideshow.
  • Kingdom Hearts:
  • The King of Fighters XII was rushed to market to mark the series' 15th anniversary. As Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)'s equal circumstances had already demonstrated, results were disappointing.
  • Kirby:
    • While previous anniversaries were celebrated in a low key fashion, Nintendo and HAL decided to go all out for the franchise's 20th anniversary, which they would do so by making a Compilation Re-release for the Wii titled Kirby's Dream Collection, which compiled all three Dream Land entries, Kirby's Adventure, Kirby Super Star and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards in one package. The compilation also contains additional goodies and content as well, such as an art book and soundtrack, an in-game museum that goes through both Kirby's history and real world events that coincided with the games, a couple of episodes from Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, and new challenge stages based off of the ones from Kirby's Return to Dream Land.
    • Nintendo and HAL decided to go even bigger with Kirby's 25th anniversary, commemorating the occasion with plenty of new anniversary merchandise, a new website in Japan, themed artwork posted on the franchise's Twitter account, themed pop up cafes titled "Kirby Cafe", and an orchestrated concert. Nintendo and HAL would also release Kirby Star Allies later the same year, which appropriately enough, serves as a massive love letter to the franchise as a whole, a fact that is made all the clearer by the addition of Dream friends, which saw the return of many Kirby characters, some of which hadn't been seen in decades. Kirby's classic Dream Land design even makes a reappearance as an unlockable alt skin.
    • Kirby's 30th anniversary saw the release of Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the franchise's first mainline 3D platformer, and Kirby's Dream Buffet.
  • For their 10th anniversary in 2019, League of Legends developers Riot Games had quite possibly one of the biggest celebrations of any gaming company ever. For 10 years they'd focused almost entirely on their groundbreaking MOBA and its esports scene (aside from its autochess spin-off, Teamfight Tactics), despite suggestions that they diversify into other projects, but on this occasion they revealed that the reason they'd never worked on anything else was because they'd been saving it all up to show at once. Things revealed during the 10th anniversary celebration included:
    • The next champion for LoL, Senna the Redeemer, a character who'd been known to be dead for 6 years as part of classic champion Lucian's backstory, now brought back to life, marking a significant shift in LoL's overarching narrative.
    • A streamlined mobile port of LoL called Wild Rift and a mobile port of Teamfight Tactics.
    • A new digital CCG based on the LoL universe, Legends of Runeterra, which would enter closed beta before the end of the year.
    • Several other in-development LoL-based games, including "Project L", a 1-on-1 fighting game, "Project F", a top-down adventure game of some sort, and even LoL Esports Manager.
    • Their new publishing division called "Riot Forge", dedicated to supporting third-party and indie development of more games based on LoL (the first two of which, CONV/RGENCE and Ruined King, would be revealed later that year at The Game Awards 2019).
    • Their first project completely unrelated to League of Legends, a team-based tactical Hero Shooter initially given the name "Project A", which was later retitled Valorant.
    • An animated series set in the LoL universe called Arcane, which would be set in the dual cities of Piltover and Zaun and cover the previously-unexplained backstories of popular champions Vi and Jinx.
    • Finally, every player in the game was given the Annie-versary◊ skin for classic champion Annie the Dark Child and a 10th Anniversary Ward Skin◊.
  • The Legend of Zelda:
  • Lies of P made its' debut during the 140th anniversary of the book it is inspired from, The Adventures of Pinocchio in 2023.
  • The Like a Dragon/Yakuza series, otherwise known as Ryu Ga Gotoku in its native Japan, celebrated the series' tenth anniversary with two games. One was Yakuza 0, a prequel that dove into the backstory of the game's characters and settings, in addition to making Breakout Character Goro Majima playable for the first time in a main-series game.note  The other was a remake of the first game, Yakuza Kiwami. Not only were new features and content from 0 implemented into the game, but it also introduced a new mechanic based entirely around Majima, and the story was also expanded to explore Akira Nishikiyama's descent into villainy.
  • Medarot Classics was released for Medarot's 20th anniversary. A 20th Anniversary Editon Box Set was released as well which contains both versions of the game, a soundtrack containing 20 of the best songs from the five games, and an art book.
  • The Metal Gear series had two anniversary campaigns dedicated to it:
    • The 20th Anniversary campaign (the official logo being a pair of dog tags) saw a plethora of merchandises being released such as collectable figurines, soundtracks, t-shirts and of course, anniversary-themed reissues of the games themselves.
    • For the 25th Anniversary campaign (the logo this time being Snake hiding under a cardboard box with his legs sticking out) saw a similar influx of collectables, most notably "PlayArts Kai" figures based on characters from the original Metal Gear Solid, as well as an entire event dedicated to showing off the next entry in the series, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (which later evolved into Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain).
  • Metal Slug 6, along with Metal Slug 3D and the Metal Slug Anthology pack was created to celebrate Metal Slug's 10th anniversary.
  • For Mini Metro's 10th anniversary, three new maps from Mini Motorways, Tokyo, Lisbon, and Warsaw, were added in the July 25, 2023 update. Conversely, Dinosaur Polo Club opened a poll for players to vote on which maps from Metro would be featured in Motorways. New York City, Mumbai, and London were the Top 3 winners and were added in the latter game on the same day.
  • For Nippon Ichi's 10th anniversary, beleaguered Series Mascot Asagi Asagiri finally gets her game made as a smartphone RPG.
  • In 2011, the Flash game site Nitrome released their one hundredth game — a shooter called Nitrome Must Die, in which the player goes on a quest to destroy Nitrome battling legions of characters from previous games as they do so.
  • Pac-Man:
  • Paper Mario: Black Pit is a rom hack of the original Paper Mario made to celebrate it's 20th anniversary.
  • PAYDAY 2 celebrated its 100th update by way of a major update, the biggest pulls of which were a revamping of the game's skill system and the removal of the controversial Microtransactions, making further in-game safes that could be opened to acquire skins completely free to open.
  • In November 2014, Sony celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Japanese launch of the first PlayStation by releasing a Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition PlayStation 4 featuring a color scheme similar to the original console. It was produced in extremely limited quantities. This was done again in November 2024 with the PlayStation 5 for the 30th anniversary.
  • The Intra-Franchise Crossover Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid was released for the 25th anniversary of the Power Rangers franchise (despite coming out in its 26th year).
  • Pokémon:
    • The franchise celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016 by doing a number of things:
      • For each month of the year starting in February, one Mythical Pokémon was distributed for the Generation VI games via various outlets depending on region (usually download codes given out at game stores for free). The release order was Mew in February, Celebi in March, Jirachi in April, Darkrai in May, Manaphy in June, Shaymin in July, Arceus in August, Victini in September, Keldeo in October, Genesect in November, and Meloetta in December.
      • On the actual anniversary date of February 27, Pokémon Red and Blue, Pokémon Yellow, and Pokémon Green (Japan only) were released on the 3DS Virtual Console. Also released were specially colored 3DS/2DS bundles with one of the correspondingly-colored games already installed.
      • Also on the actual anniversary date (in Japan), there was a worldwide announcement for the next core games, Pokémon Sun and Moon with a Holiday 2016 release date.
      • The earliest cards from the official Trading Card Game were reprinted.
      • Two new games were released, Pokémon GO for mobile and Pokkén Tournament for the Wii U.
      • Pokémon: The First Movie, Pokémon 2000, Pokémon 3, and Pokémon 4Ever were digitally remastered.
      • In Super Mario Maker, three Pokémon costumes (based respectively on Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle) were made unlockable in an update.
      • Pokémon's official Youtube channel also released a number of shorts called Pokémon Generations, which can be viewed here.
    • For the 25th anniversary, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, remakes of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for the Nintendo Switch were announced for a late 2021 release. Also announced for a 2022 release is Pokémon Legends: Arceus, a seemingly Wide-Open Sandbox take on the series set in a feudal-era Sinnoh.
    • Gimmighoul and Gholdengo are Milestone Celebration Pokémon, being the 999th and 1000th Pokémon in the series' Pokédex; with Gimmighoul debuting almost simultaneously in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and Pokémon GO and requiring an in game grind of 999 coins to evolve into Gholdengo.
    • In honor of exceeding 1000 Pokémon with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the official YouTube channel premiered a special nine-minute video showcasing all 1008 Pokémon, with the first six minutes being a recap of the first eight generations of Pokémon sorted by situational encounters, evolution gimmicks, etc., and the remaining three minutes featuring the Scarlet and Violet newcomers presented by their National Pokédex numbers.
    • Pokémon Sleep gave out free gift bundles for various milestones such as reaching 10 million downloads and its 6-month anniversary.
    • Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary on February 28, 2026. As a way to celebrate the anniversary, a new game titled Pokémon Champions is set for release on Nintendo Switch in April, according to the February Pokémon Presents.
  • According to Famitsu, Project × Zone 2 was created not only as a sequel to Project X Zone, but to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Namco × Capcom as well.
  • Puyo Puyo:
    • For the 15th anniversary, Sega released Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary, which brought back older characters that had been missing in the Fever games. Also has a multitude of modes and story routes to play.
    • For the 20th anniversary, Sega released Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, which invited characters that debuted or returned from Puyo Puyo 7. Like 15th, there are a multitude of modes and story routes to play, and even more treats like retro spells from Puyo Puyo CD 2 and Puyo Puyo Sun via cheat code.
    • For the 24th anniversary, a stage play titled Puyo Puyo On Stage was performed, along with a DVD of the performance.
    • For the 25th Anniversary, Sega released Puyo Puyo Chronicle, which again has lots of modes to play, but more notably, is the second time in the series after Puyo Puyo DA! to go full 3D with a chibi artstyle. It also introduced an RPG mode with the Skill Battle ruleset being the main focus. Despite the last anniversary games being multiplatform, Chronicle is Nintendo 3DS exclusive.
    • While Puyo Puyo Champions is not an anniversary game in the same way as its predecessors, its Japanese release date was on October 25, 2018, which is the 27th anniversary of Puyo Puyo for the MSX2 and Famicom Disk System.
  • Raiden V was planned to have a 2015 release to coincide with the main Raiden series' 25th anniversary. However, it was delayed until February 2016, in which, coincidentally, 2016 was the 25th anniversary of Raiden Trad (the first Raiden consumer port) as well as 20th anniversary of Raiden Fighters spinoff, which Word of God never explicitly mentioned on.
  • Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault was released to commemorate the duo's 10th anniversary.
  • RuneScape:
    • Anniversary milestones:
      • The tenth anniversary featured mobile drop parties where players could obtain a special Anniversary Cake item, which had a unique emote.
      • The fifteenth anniversary was a more fully-featured event, featuring numerous activities that rewarded a wide variety of anniversary-themed Cosmetic Awards, and the Anniversary cake, a healing item that can be used once every three minutes until the event ended and the item was removed. A special quest was also developed and released as part of the celebrations, a Leaning on the Fourth Wall comedy quest featuring Continuity Cavalcade and designed by the game's original creators, who had left the company several years prior.
      • Starting with the 18th anniversary, the first week of the new year is marked by periodic balloon drops in fixed locations, where players can obtain useful items. The Anniversary cake is also made available again for this week each year. The 24th anniversary added a new cosmetic item to this drop pool.
      • The 20th anniversary was marked by numerous events, including a themed Cosmetic Award, a special miniquest, three weeks of buffs in assorted activities in the game, and the Golden Partyhat hunt which allowed players to obtain a special party hat, a reference to one of the game's most iconic items. There was also a special multi-part anniversary quest, parts of which were released throughout the year, which celebrated questing past, present, and future
      • The 25th anniversary featured a set of tasks revisiting notable updates and events from the game's history, as well as the return of inverted skill capes, which had been released as part of a temporary game mode over three years before and whose re-release was hotly anticipated.
    • Quest milestones:
      • The 50th quest was the largest quest released up to that point, and required completing every prior quest before even starting. It was also the last quest released in RuneScape Classic, which gave it a somewhat mythic status. Unlike most examples, this was a happy accident on the part of the developers.
      • The 100th quest was a sprawling multi-part quest that started as a sequel to the first quest ever released in the game, and featured callbacks to a massive number of quests that existed at the time.
      • The 150th quest was the conclusion of the Cave Goblin quest series, featuring fan-favourite character Zanik, and concludes with a boss fight with her possessed by the God Of War, the series' Greater-Scope Villain. As with the 50th quest, this was unintentional.
      • The 200th quest was another multi-part quest, this time exploring an It's a Wonderful Plot Alternate Universe version of Varrock, one of the early areas, where The Bad Guy Won. As with the 100th quest, Continuity Cavalcade abounds; the alternate Varrock is full of Easter Eggs, and many of the subparts are explicit reimaginings of pre-existing quests.
    • Other:
      • Players can obtain special capes based on the age of their account; at time of writing there are veteran capes available at 5, 10, 15, and 20 year milestones.
      • Ironman characters are given a cosmetic override, which gains a new variant when the account reaches five years old.
      • In-game events celebrated the game passing 200 million and 300 million registered accounts.
  • The SaGa series celebrated its 20th anniversary by remaking Final Fantasy Legend II as SaGa 2 Hihou Densetsu -Goddess of Destiny-...and releasing a 20-disc compilation of all the SaGa soundtracks.
  • Shadowverse: For every 1 million downloads, Cygames gives away X free packs of the latest expansion equivalent to the X million times the game has been downloaded. There are also Anniversary events commemorating years of the game, which give free packs from all expansions to the players, as well as the Polls which allow the player to vote which among the characters should be featured as the next leaders.
  • For the 10th anniversary of Shovel Knight, an Updated Re-release of the original game, known as Shovel of Hope DX, was announced.
  • The Sims:
    • The first stuff pack for The Sims 3 was High-End Loft Stuff, which was released around the time of The Sims franchise's 10th anniversary. As such, the pack includes 3 items from the original game: the giant fish tank, the electric guitar, and the vibrating love bed.
    • For the 25th anniversary of the franchise, EA re-released the first game and The Sims 2 on digital storefronts like the EA App, Steam and Epic Games Store as "Legacy Collection" releases, which included all of the expansion and stuff packsnote .
  • In celebration of their 40th anniversary, SNK released SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, a compilation title of the company's earliest games, including (but not limited to) Crystalis, Ikari Warriors, and Psycho Soldier. They also released the Neo Geo Mini, a plug-and-play console designed after the Neo Geo arcade cabinets of the 1990s and containing forty different games.
  • Solatorobo: Red the Hunter is considered to be CyberConnect2's 15th anniversary celebration, being a Spiritual Sequel to the very first game they developed. Likewise, Fuga: Melodies of Steel is treated as their 25th anniversary celebration.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog has gone through several, starting in 2001:
  • Soulcalibur VI is a Continuity Reboot that returns to the original Soulcalibur era of the series, and was chosen in part because the game was released in 2018, on the twentieth anniversary of the original Soulcalibur first hitting arcade stores.
  • Space Invaders celebrated their 30th anniversary with Space Invaders Get Even, where the eponymous invaders become Villain Protagonists. They also released Space Invaders Extreme, which is a modern revamping of the game.
  • ''Splatoon:
    • When the game turned 10 years old, Nintendo did a low key celebration for one of the newest franchises. The original game's soundtrack was added to Nintendo Music, a series of icons were released for Switch accounts, revealed Splatoon Raiders, Splatoon 3 received a new updated including long-awaited third kits and the first stage ever revealed for the original game (Urchin Underpass) returning, and Nintendo Stores in Japan and America gave a poster of almost every character in the game up to that point with any piece of Splatoon merch.
    • Splatoon 2 did the following to celebrate its first anniversary of release:
      • The Splatfest for July, its month of release, was Squid vs. Octopus, reflecting the Inklings and the Octarians. Your player character also matched your side, meaning that people can try out Octolings without buying the Octo Expansion. During the Splatfest itself, confetti fell at the start of each match, and the Shifty Station had fireworks, neither of which other Splatfests had. In-universe, Pearl and Marina note that it's their first anniversary of them hosting Inkopolis News.
      • In Salmon Run, the shift on the anniversary was an exact copy of the one on launch day note . Earlier in the month, there was a special shift with nothing but Grizzco weapons.
    • In 2020, A Mario-themed Splatfest took place, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Mario franchise (see below for more details about the celebration).
  • Star Trek Online has done a number of these for each year and then some.
    • Year One Celebration - the alteration of Earth Spacedock into one more canonlike.
    • Year Two Celebration - the introduction of the Odyssey and Bortasqu'-class ships
    • Year Three Celebration - the "Temporal Ambassador" event, reintroducing Tasha Yar and the Enterprise-C. The Ambassador-class and Kamarag-class ships joined the collection.
    • Year Four Celebration - the introduction of Season 8.5, the mission "A Step Between Stars", which reintroduces Tuvok and introduces the Dyson Science Destroyer.
    • Year Five Celebration - the mission "Dust to Dust", a continuation of the Kobali storyline and a follow up to the Voyager episode "Ashes to Ashes" and the introduction of the Kobali Samsar Cruiser.
    • Year Six Celebration - the mission "Time and Tide", which kicks off the Temporal Cold War, and the introduction of the Krenim Science Vessel.
    • There was also a celebration for Star Trek: The Next Generation's 25th Anniversary, which gave players Worf's Season One sash.
    • The third expansion, Agents of Yesterday, is being released in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the original series, allowing players to create a captain that hailed from that time frame.
  • Story of Seasons had two Spin-Off games made for the series' 10th anniversary: Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon and Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon. The former proved popular enough to become its own series. Also for their 10th anniversary, Marvelous released two games: DS and Magical Melody. Both games were throwback games with the former taking place in Forget-Me-Not Valley 100 years in the future, and the latter featured characters from previous games (mostly from the first game of the series). Both games are often cited as being the end of the "classic" Harvest Moon period due to future games being vastly different from the older Harvest Moon style. The odd part is, though, the games were released in 2005 when the 10th anniversary was in 2006.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
  • Super Monkey Ball:
    • The franchise celebrated its 10th anniversary with the release of Super Monkey Ball 3D, Sega also opened up an anniversary website for the franchise at that time.
    • In time for the franchise's 20th anniversary, Sega released Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania, an enhanced remake of the franchise's first three games with new features. Sonic's official social media accounts also got in on a bit of the fun.
  • The Super Robot Wars franchise often releases a new installment for every fifth year since its inception:
    • The 15th anniversary was Super Robot Wars Original Generations, compiling both Original Generation titles from the Nintendo Game Boy Advance into a single game, effectively rebooting the sub-series.
    • The 20th anniversary was the Second Super Robot Wars Z: Hakai-hen.
    • The 25th anniversary was the Original Generation sequel The Moon Dwellers, which had the honor of being released in English for non-Japanese regions.
    • The 30th anniversary game will be the aptly named Super Robot Wars 30, which will have the honor of actually being the first game is the series with licensed characters to be released in North America and Europe.
  • The Sword Art Online video games celebrated their tenth anniversary with the release of Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream. Note that despite Sword Art Online originally being a light novel, it is placed in this page since Fractured Daydream was explicitly celebrating the tenth anniversary of the series' video games.
  • Although it was meant to be released in 2020 until it was delayed to 2021, Tales of Arise was made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Tales Series.
  • Parodied in Team Fortress 2: Valve meant to commemorate their 100th update with the medals that showed how long it was since you first started playing the game, but they had to put a bunch of other, minor updates before then. So when it finally came out, it was the 119th update, and they acted as if this was some major milestone to celebrate. It's also worth noting that the 300th update was a fairly major update that came with the release of Meet the Pyro, the last Meet the Team video.
  • For Tavern Talk's first anniversary, the Lorebook was expanded not only to include Oleander's profile, but to also add new chapters about the fauna, cities and towns, potions and infusions, myths and legends of Phesoa.
  • The developers of Terraria schedule its final and largest update, "Journey's End", for May 16, 2020 - the 9th anniversary of the original release.
    • Followed by a smaller update exactly a year later which adds another special world seed accessed by typing "celebrationmk10" or numbers corresponding to the update release date or Terraria's original release date ("05162011", "05162021", etc.). Doing so spawns you on a painted beach on either side of the world with a party immediately started and several NPCs, three of them named after the lead developers.
  • Total War: For the 25th Anniversary of the franchise, two major announcements were made. The first was a DLC for Total War: Warhammer III themed around The End Times starring Nagash. The second was the announcement of Total War Medieval III.
  • Twisted-Wonderland: To celebrate the first anniversary of the game, the "First Anniversary" event was held from March 8 to March 22 2021note  . The story chapters of the event say that March 18note  was the day when Night Raven College was founded, and a ceremony is held every year on the anniversary of that date, of which Grim and the first year students are shown enjoying the festivities.
  • Epic Games celebrated 20 years of the Unreal series in May 2018 by giving the original game away for free on GOG.com and Steam over a period of 48 hours.
  • WarioWare Gold came out in 2018, the 15th anniversary of the franchise. While it isn't explicitly tied to the anniversary, one of the unlockable phone codes has one of the game's devs acknowledge the milestone.
  • The World of Mana series celebrated its 25th anniversary with a mobile and PlayStation Vita remake of the first game, Final Fantasy Adventure (which was called Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden in Japan; the series separated from Final Fantasy with Secret of Mana worldwide rather than this being a true case of Dolled-Up Installment), with the remake being renamed Adventures of Mana internationally.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 1: Definitive Edition came out just 11 days before the 10th anniversary of its original Japanese release date.

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