Road Rash Finally Goes Digital as EA Adds 25 Classic Games to Steam

EA has put 25 traditional PC video games on Steam with a really interesting story behind them. Seven of them are restored Anniversary Editions of Street Rash and 6 Wing Commander titles. The opposite 18, which embody Theme Hospital, Strike Commander, each Crusader video games, and eleven Ultima video games, are on Steam for the primary time, in keeping with EA. The Anniversary Editions price $9.99 and the remaining go for $4.99, and Steam at the moment has them at 50% off till November 19. EA returned to Steam again in 2020 and has been slowly including older classics since.

Apparently, it began in March 2022, when EA producer Jim Vessella discovered a storage room at EA’s Redwood Shores campus with almost 20,000 outdated tapes, movie reels, and CD-ROMs, together with the grasp recordings for Wing Commander and Street Rash. By April 2026, round 6,000 had been digitized, and EA says that helped restore over 1,500 cutscenes. A lot of the work occurred on private time, with Vessella utilizing lunch breaks and evenings and Brian Barnes spending his weekends on Street Rash, the identical pair that helped make the Command & Conquer source code public final yr. Fan modders additionally performed an enormous half, because the Wing Commander releases ship with group patches, and GOG’s engineers constructed the Prophecy version.

Street Rash’s 1996 PC model, which had by no means been bought digitally earlier than, now runs at as much as 60 FPS and will get native controller help, a relicensed soundtrack that includes bands like Soundgarden, and elective AI-upscaled cutscenes. Anybody who already owns the Wing Commander video games on GOG or the EA App will get the Anniversary Version improve totally free on that platform. Not dangerous for a mission that began with somebody poking round a storage room.