Xbox Announces Retro Classics Collection Featuring 50 Games

Xbox has launched a new ‘Retro Classics’ collection, which is available now for Xbox Game Pass members.

This is a collaboration between Xbox and Antstream Arcade. It includes over fifty games from the 80s and 90s, and Xbox stated in an Xbox Wire post that the “initiative is a step in our commitment to game preservation and backwards compatibility, allowing players to experience many timeless games on modern devices.”

Here’s the complete list of games in the Retro Classics collection (thanks to True Achievements).

• Activision Prototype #1 — Atari 2600
• Atlantis — Atari 2600
• Atlantis II — Atari 2600
• Barnstorming — Atari 2600
• Baseball — Atari 2600
• Beamrider — Atari 2600
• Bloody Human Freeway — Atari 2600
• Boxing — Atari 2600
• Bridge — Atari 2600
• Caesar II — DOS
• Checkers — Atari 2600
• Chopper Command — Atari 2600
• Commando — Atari 2600
• Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood — DOS
• Cosmic Ark — Atari 2600
• Crackpots — Atari 2600
• Decathalon — Atari 2600
• Demon Attack — Atari 2600
• Dolphin — Atari 2600
• Dragster — Atari 2600
• Enduro — Atari 2600
• Fathom — Atari 2600
• Fire Fighter — Atari 2600
• Fishing Derby — Atari 2600
• Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist — DOS
• Freeway — Atari 2600
• Frostbite — Atari 2600
• Grand Prix — Atari 2600
• H.E.R.O. — Atari 2600
• Kaboom! — Atari 2600
• Laser Blast — Atari 2600
• Mechwarrior — SNES
• Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Combat — PS1
• Megamania — Atari 2600
• Pitfall II: Lost Caverns — Atari 2600
• Pitfall! — Atari 2600
• Police Quest — Amiga
• Pressure Cooker — Atari 2600
• Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero — DOS
• Riddle of the Sphinx — Atari 2600
• River Raid — Atari 2600
• River Raid II — Atari 2600
• Robot Tank — Atari 2600
• Sky Jinks — Atari 2600
• Space Quest 6 — DOS
• Space Quest II — Amiga
• Space Treat Deluxe — Atari 2600
• Spider Fighter — Atari 2600
• Star Voyager — Atari 2600
• Tennis — Atari 2600
• The Adventures of Willy Beamish — Amiga
• The Dagger of Amon Ra — DOS
• Thwocker — Atari 2600
• Title Match Pro Wrestling — Atari 2600
• Torin’s Passage — DOS
• Trick Short — Atari 2600
• Vault Assault — Atari 2600
• Venetian Blinds — Atari 2600
• Zork I: The Great Underground Empire — DOS
• Zork Zero — DOS

Additional games from Activision and Blizzard will be added over time, expanding the Retro Classics collection to over one hundred games.

Are you excited to play any of these games for the first or hundredth time? Let me know in the comment section below.