As Anthony John Agnello wrote about previously, there are a few types of games that tend to show up during a console’s dying days, the time after the system’s successor has been released and most potential players have stopped paying attention. Sometimes they’re unlikely imports. Sometimes they’re ambitious projects that require the experience with a console’s idiosyncrasies that a studio can only get after years of practice. Sometimes they’re cash-ins whose very existence seems illogical. But no matter the case, these last dregs are almost always weird, unexpected parting gifts from an old friend. We’ve assembled 14 games from across history to look back at this phenomenon that, with the current crop of consoles, might itself be in its final throes.
