Blizzard celebrates thirtieth birthday with bundle of three old games

During BlizzConline, Blizzard is announcing the Arcade Collection, a bundle of three of the studio’s oldest games. Bundled up are The Lost Vikings, Rock n’ Roll Racing and Blackthorne, which will be released for Windows, PS4, Xbox One and Switch.

“Games like The Lost Vikings, Rock n’ Roll Racing and Blackthorne have brought us to games like Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft, so we thought it would be a fitting tribute to look back on our history through the Blizzard Arcade Collection,” Blizzard said. director J. Allen Brack during the opening of BlizzConline, the online variant of the fan party that Blizzard organizes every year.

Players can choose to play all three games in their original form or in the new Definitive Edition. In the latter variant, the progress can be saved more easily and there is an option to roll back the gameplay 10 seconds.

The Arcade Collection is part of the Celebration Collection, a collection of in-game goodies Blizzard is selling in honor of the studio’s 30th anniversary. The Celebration Collection costs €19.99 and is available immediately through Blizzard’s own Battle.net, the Nintendo eShop, the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Store.

Blizzard released the games from the bundle in the early years of its existence. The studio was founded in 1991, then under the name Silicon & Synapse. The very first game it released was RPM Racing, which is not included in the bundle. The Lost Vikings followed in 1992 and Rock n’ Roll Racing in 1993. Blackthorne would follow in 1994, the same year Blizzard would break through with Warcraft: Orcs & Humans.