Blizzard Arcade Collection | GamePlay PC

Relax and rewind with the Blizzard® Arcade Collection, featuring faithful reproductions of Blackthorne®, The Lost Vikings®, and Rock N Roll Racing® for modern platforms!

Experience a blast from Blizzard's past! The Blizzard® Arcade Collection brings three of our classic console games to modern platforms and new audiences.

INCLUDED GAMES:

• Blackthorne®: As mercenary captain Kyle Blackthorne, traverse an alien planet, liberate the Androthi people, and claim your destiny.

• The Lost Vikings®: Help three Vikings—Erik, Baleog, and Olaf—overcome challenging platforms and puzzles to find their way back home.

• Rock N Roll Racing®: Rock out in the raddest vehicular destruction derby this side of 1993. RNRR is back with original rock and metal soundtrack hits plus a few new surprises.

LEVEL UP THE LEGACY:

The Blizzard Arcade Collection contains two different Original Editions of each game plus a new Definitive Edition!

• The Original Editions are the games as you remember them but with new quality of life improvements included—like the ability to set custom keybindings, rewind your gameplay up to 10 seconds, save and load your game as well as watch playthroughs of Blackthorne and The Lost Vikings (and then jump in to play at any point). Improvements may vary by game and game edition.

• The Definitive Editions include all the same great gameplay content as the Original Editions plus a few additional upgrades—like enhanced local multiplayer for The Lost Vikings and Rock N Roll Racing, new songs and original artist performances for Rock N Roll Racing, a new level map for Blackthorne, localization for 12 languages*, and more.

VISIT THE MUSEUM:

The Blizzard Arcade Collection Museum features a trove of treasures from each game's past.

• Art & Artifacts: View game boxes, illustrations, marketing materials, and more from the original era of these classic games.

• Music Player: Listen to the in-game scores from the Original Editions of Blackthorne and The Lost Vikings.

• Inside the Games: Take a look behind the scenes, and under the hood, of these classic games with development materials, unused content, and deep lore.

• Interviews: Watch behind-the-scenes interviews and learn more about the developers of these classic games.

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[canalreplaytestes]

I like the wide version of RRR, but there is no Larry Huffman's voice!

[sandpir]

Funny... I've spent a lot of quarters back in the day but have never heard of any of these games before.

[ArthurAlbuquerque]

is it possible to play rock'n roll racing online?

[Henkibojj]

One thing I can't stand about nostalgia enthusiasts is their excitement to play older games on whatever device they just hacked, only to play an obvious 4:3 game in stretched 16:9 mode and they seem completely oblivious of how awful it looks. What is even worse is when companies don't see it, or don't care.

It seems to me that the SNES and GEN versions are true 4:3 but somehow the improved version is not. All the Vikings look short, fat and wide and objects that are clearly meant to be perfectly circular objects are squished and stretched. I bet they haven't taken into account the ratio of the pixels themselves: back in the day, the number of pixels were perhaps 4 to 3, but the pixels weren't square like they are today. That means the real aspect ratio, not pixel to pixel ratio, is closer to 5:4 but this option doesn't exists anywhere except sophisticated emulators. If you are lucky, your TV might have some zoom-stretch mode you can mess around with to force things into a correct perspective. The Wii era was especially torturous since widescreen was getting more popular but companies, including Nintendo themselves, didn't know how to handle it, and all buttons and menu items became flattened while still giving a wider viewing angle for the FPS games. It's terrible.

This compilation should be an obvious purchase for me but this aspect ratio thing makes me feel it is a cash grab and nothing else. Even discounted at $12 at the moment and Lost Vikings 2 included as a patch, I'm not sure I want to. Should I buy it anyway, when the aspect ratio is so obviously neglected?

[tymz-r-achangin]

Kinda neat game but tired of having to wait each time for each character to do their thing and doing the back n forth screen action. That's just the way the game hits me but I'm sure a lot of others will fin it funner than I did

[dukefreeman]

I understand why the music is cut but unfortunately it makes the games terribly flat and bland ^_^ Too bad I can't get an idea if it's still a bit of fun to play or not (at 20€/$ for the compilation it's not just a bit of nostalgia, I'd like to feel like I can play them for hours and maybe finish them)

[jonasfermefors]

The only one I care about at all is the Lost Vikings, but why haven't they cleaned up the sprites?
I won't be buying this.

[SeLFsTeR]

Rock and Roll racing, and 1st thing he does is turn the music off ..