Summary

• Steam offers a treasure trove of retro games from various publishers and platforms, preserving gaming history for today's players.
• Collections like Disney Classic Games and Castlevania Anniversary offer beloved classics with quality-of-life improvements for modern PCs.
• Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics and Dreamcast Collection bring back nostalgia with over 50 titles and iconic games from the '90s era.

Steam has amassed a massive collection of retro games over the years. Though the thought might h🐻ave been unthinkable 20 or 30 years ago, Steam has somehow managed to bring together multiple games that come from a variety of once-competing publishers and console platforms. The result is a spectacular catalog of old 8-bit and 16-bit titles that are still worth playing today.

These game bundles combine at least two games that were acclaimed in their day, or are at least important staples of major gaming franchises. Whether it's platforming, driving or action genres you're looking for, these Steam collections are the best way to experience what gaming was like over two decades ago.

8 Disney Classic Games: Aladdin And The Lion King ♌ 💜

Just like today, the best-selling video games of the early and mid-1990s were movie tie-ins. Both Aladdin and The Lion King were major powerhouse titles that collecti🍷vely sold several million copies👍 for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo.

Both games were noted for their crisp animations and quality audio, as well as giving players the chance to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:play as their favorite genie, and as a result, both their charm and their unique tone still shine through when playing them on PC. This specific Steam collection also gives you access to the portable versions of the game, in case you want to experience what it was like both for co🦋nsoles and for 🌠handheld devices.

7 Castlevania An⛄niversary Collection

Castlevania is without a doubt one of gaming's greatest franchises, both in terms of longevity and quality. Gamers have been vampire hunting since the 1980s, and while the series has spawned many great sequels and spin-offs, there is nothing that can replace the original classics of the NES and SNES eras.

The collection offers not tw💞o or three, but nine titles in total, including the original NES trilogy and the critically acclaimed Super Castlevania IV, a 16-bit re-imagining of the original game. These are some of the best retro titles out there, and ♍owning them all on PC with quality-of-life improvements is a godsend.

6 Mega Man Legacy Collection ♋

It's hard to imagine the retro gaming landscape without the influence of Mega Man. This legacy collection pays proper respect to one of gaming's oldest and most important icons, delivering the original six games in the series.

Each game is jam-packed with iconic music, iconi꧟c boss battles, and the diverse yet classic game design that made Mega Man such a huge hit everywhere. The number of games that these retro titles influenced is incalculable, and the tightness of the controls and level design ♐remains deeply satisfying even today.

5 Sega Mega Drive and Genes🐬is Classics 🎶

While most gaming collections or bundles will offer you anywhere from three to ten games, this one takes the g🎐ame in terms of sheer volume. The Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics, which is one of the oldest retro collections on Steam, fea𒆙ture over 50 titles to explore.

Many of these titles are Sega classics that helped define the company back in the 1990s. Games like Sonic Spinball, Ecco The Dolphin, Gunstar Heroes, Virtua Fighter 2, and Streets of Rage are definitely some of this collection's highlights.

The original Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy used to be a part of this collection. In 2022, they were removed so that they could be placed and sold within the updated 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sonic Origins collection.

4 Dreamcast Collectiಞon ꦅ

To this day, many people still consider the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sega Dreamcast to be the greatest console of its generation, and it was ahead of its time when it comes to hardware, but its software was nothing to sneeze at either. These may not be 2D games, but it's safe to say that enough time has passed that the early 2000s constitutes a retro period of sorts.

These seven games have been available on Steam for a decade now, and they are still by far some of the best examples of retro gaming being kept alive on modern PCs. Crazy Taxi, Nights, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:both Sonic Adventures and Jet Set Radio are rea༺sons enough to buy this collection🌌.

3 The Disney Afternoon Collection ☂

Though it's hard to think of them as major forces of gaming nowadays, Disney really was responsible for helping publish and franchise some of the best-reviewed and best-selling games of the 90s. This Disney Afternoon Collection is a great time capsule to help newer players get a feel for just how important this massive animation studio was for early game console libraries.

As the name implies, this collection is themed around afternoon cartoons such as Chip 'n Dale, Darkwing Duck, and most famously of all, DuckTales. With added achievements, an in-game museum, and compatibility with modern controllers, this is a great collection to add to your, well, collection.

2 🍷 8-Bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I 🌠

If there's anything that makes retro gaming and PC gaming come together like peanut butter and chocolate, it's point-and-click puzzle and adventure games. Though this collection is not nearly as popular as the Sega and Disney collections that are available, 8-Bit Adventure Anthology combines three cult classics of the genre and updates them both mechanically and visually to bring them back to life.

These games will at times remind players of the same atmosphere that was to be found in the weste🅺rn, horror, mystery, and noir novels and television shows that were popular in the 80s and 90s. This collection is specifically recommended for diehard fans of retro gaming who are on the lookout for g🏅ames that are retro feeling even by the standards of their own period.

1 ꦑ Castlevania Adꦗvance Collection

It may be a little unfair to have Castlevania take up two spots on the list, but it's too irresistible of a notion. Once again, this series provides some of the best retro games available on Steam, though keep in mind these are (mostly) Game Boy Advance games as implied by the collection's title.

Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, and Aria of Sorrow are the first Castlevania games to continue the non-linear legacy that was cemented by Symphony of the Night. This makes them must-haves for fans of that masterpiece who have yet to play its direct sequels, and this collection is also a fantastic way for new fans of Metroidvanias to taste more of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:what the genre has to offer.