EA dropped 25 games from the nineties on Steam, GOG and the EA app on November 5, and every one of them is new to Steam. The headliner is Road Rash: 30th Anniversary Edition, the first digital release of the motorbike racer where you punch people at 100 mph. Everything is 50 percent off until November 19: Road Rash and the six Wing Commander editions are $4.99 instead of $9.99, the other eighteen games $2.49 instead of $4.99. The whole lot comes to roughly $80 on sale.
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Road Rash: the 1996 PC version, Soundgarden included
Not the 1991 Mega Drive cartridge. This is the 1996 PC release, the one with the FMV and the grunge soundtrack, and the music is all there: EA's music team spent more than a year relicensing Soundgarden, Paw, Hammerbox, Monster Magnet, Swervedriver and Therapy?. The songs now play during races too. Press R on the keyboard or View on a pad to skip a track.
The cutscenes come from the source master tapes EA found in its own media vault in 2022. You pick one of four video modes: none, the original 1996 clips, the high-res master captures, or the same captures run through an AI upscaler. On top of that you get up to 60 fps, Xbox and DualSense support, windowed mode and Steam Cloud saves.
Things worth knowing before you buy, straight from EA's own FAQ:
- No autosave. Save by hand from the Restroom menu, like it's 1996.
- Online is gone. The modem and internet service died decades ago. LAN play in Mano a Mano still works.
- Steam Deck. Rated Playable, but EA says the game can crash right after an FMV. On a Deck I'd just set videos to None. Player name and save menus need the on-screen keyboard.
- Streaming. To dodge music strikes, go to Restroom, Graphics and Sound, switch Rock music in race off and drop Interface Sounds to zero. Races fall back to the original MIDI tunes.
- Controller layout and scans of the old printed manuals sit in the Extras folder inside the install directory.
Wing Commander: six anniversary editions
The other restored half is the space sim series Chris Roberts started in 1990. Wing Commander and Wing Commander II get 35th Anniversary Editions; Wing Commander III, IV, Prophecy and Privateer 2 get 30th. Wing Commander III alone has about 475 cutscenes, so that's a lot of Mark Hamill, now sourced from the master tapes.
EA didn't rebuild these from scratch, and I like that it says so. The first two games ship with the Kilrathi Saga versions plus the community wcdx and WCAT patches (speed fixes, controllers, windowed mode), and Wing Commander III includes Matt Wells' enhancement patch, which already let it play high-res video. If you own a digital Wing Commander on GOG or the EA app, the Anniversary Edition upgrade is free on that same store.
18 more games, untouched, $2.49 each
EA calls the rest faithful ports, meaning the games as they shipped, no new video or options. The list: Wing Commander: Privateer, Academy and Armada, Strike Commander, Theme Hospital, both Crusader games (No Remorse and No Regret), Ultima I through IX and both Ultima Underworld games.
Theme Hospital at $2.49 is an easy yes. It's still one of the funniest management games ever made, and its designers went on to make Two Point Hospital. Ultima VII and the Underworlds are a different story: brilliant games, but the controls are from 1992 and you will feel it.
Sources
EA on Steam: Add 25 Restored and Classic Games to Your Library (November 5, 2026, game list and sale until November 19).
EA: Road Rash 30th Anniversary Edition FAQ and Known Issues (autosave, online, Steam Deck).
Jim Vessella, EA: From the Vault to Your Library (EA's media vault, master tapes, community patches, free Wing Commander upgrade).
Prices from the Steam store pages as of November 7, 2026, in US dollars.
Screenshots: Steam pages of Road Rash: 30th Anniversary Edition, Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger and Theme Hospital.
