![]() ![]() Today, we call ourselves Blizzard Entertainment and, in celebration of our 30 th anniversary, we’re re-releasing those three original games for PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 through backwards compatibility-updated with the sort of modern conveniences, like rewinding and saving, that weren’t available back in the days of yore. Those games were The Lost Vikings, Rock N Roll Racing, and Blackthorne. With that as a mantra, that small group of developers, over the span of just a few years, went about creating a string of games that ended up being pretty popular with players and critics alike. “Cutting-edge graphics” meant “256 colors.” And back then, a little company that called itself Silicon & Synapse came together around the simple idea of making the types of games that the people at the company liked to play. Fun fact: Obsidian Entertainment chief executive Feargus Urquhart, then at Interplay Productions, was a producer on that game (Interplay published it).In the early 90s, times were simpler. Blizzard made Lost Vikings 2: Norse by Norse West for SNES in 1997. ![]() RPM Racing, which launched for Super Nintendo in 1991, was the predecessor to Rock N Roll Racing. ![]() The anthology is a celebration of the publisher/studio’s 30th anniversary. Blizzard Arcade Collection, a compilation of hits from the company’s earliest days (when it was known as Silicon & Synapse, and then Chaos Studios), launched in February on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. The new games were added to the Blizzard Arcade Collection via free update on Tuesday. They are The Lost Vikings 2, a sequel to the side-scrolling platformer included with the collection at launch, and RPM Racing, an isometric-style truck racer similar to the also-included Rock N Roll Racing. Two more throwbacks have joined the Blizzard Arcade Collection anthology that launched for PC and consoles back in February. ![]()
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