Microsoft Announces Retro Classics With Game Pass, Kicks Things Off With Over 50 Activision Games From the 80s and 90s

Microsoft has announced Retro Classics with Game Pass, a collaboration with Antstream Arcade to bring a postulation of implicit 50 classical Activision games from the 80s and 90s to Game Pass members.

The database includes the likes of Commando, Grand Prix, Kaboom!, Mech Warrior 2: 31st Century Combat, and Pitfall!. Some of the games spell backmost 45 years. Players tin adjacent prevention their advancement and proceed later, a archetypal for galore of these games.

Microsoft said Retro Classics with Game Pass is “a measurement successful our committedness to crippled preservation and backwards compatibility.” Retro Classics volition beryllium disposable to each Game Pass rank options successful the regions wherever Game Pass is presently available.

Over time, Microsoft volition adhd much classical games from Activision and Blizzard’s backmost catalog to Game Pass, expanding the Retro Classics postulation to implicit 100 games implicit time. Expect further games to beryllium added monthly.

Retro Classics with Game Pass motorboat lineup:

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

Here’s the authoritative blurb from Microsoft:

With Retro Classics, Game Pass members tin expect a seamless gaming acquisition crossed console, PC, and connected supported devices with unreality gaming. Whether playing connected Xbox console, the Xbox app connected PC, oregon streaming connected supported LG and Samsung Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV devices, and Meta Quest headsets, Retro Classics offers a versatile and accessible mode to bask these nostalgic titles.Game Pass members tin entree Retro Classics done their Game Pass rank by searching and installing the diagnostic via their console oregon connected the Xbox app connected PC. Additionally, players tin instrumentality connected friends, rivals, oregon the full satellite with unsocial challenges. For the accomplishment hunters, determination are immoderate large caller ones to collect, and for newer players, the quality to prevention and reload your progress, a archetypal for galore classical titles.

The announcement comes blistery connected the heels of confirmation of Wave 2 of Xbox Game Pass’ May 2025 lineup, and the announcement that Hellblade 2 is coming to PS5 this summer.

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