EA Classic Games on Steam: Road Rash and Wing Commander Return After 30 Years

EA classic games on Steam are here. Electronic Arts has brought 25 classic PC games from the 1990s to Steam for the first time, alongside GOG and the EA App, in a launch that went live on November 5, 2026. Seven are restored Anniversary Editions, led by Road Rash and six Wing Commander titles, while the other 18 are faithful re-releases including Ultima, Crusader and Theme Hospital. Anniversary Editions cost $9.99 each and the other games $4.99 each, with special launch pricing until November 19.

EA Classic Games on Steam: The 7 Restored Anniversary Editions

The centrepiece of the launch is the seven Anniversary Editions, rebuilt with quality-of-life updates and higher-resolution full-motion video restored from the master tapes:

• Road Rash: 30th Anniversary Edition
• Wing Commander: 35th Anniversary Edition
• Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi: 35th Anniversary Edition
• Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger: 30th Anniversary Edition
• Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom: 30th Anniversary Edition
• Wing Commander Prophecy: 30th Anniversary Edition
• Privateer 2: The Darkening: 30th Anniversary Edition

The Anniversary Editions are built for modern PCs, with native Windows 10 and 11 compatibility, widescreen resolutions, quick save and quick load, controller support and new soundtracks. The Wing Commander games also bundle community-built patches, including the Wcdx and WCAT patches for the first two games and the Enhancement Patch for the later titles, adding 60 frames-per-second gameplay, higher-resolution cinematics and improved joystick support.

The 18 faithful re-releases

The other 18 are faithful ports for players who want the purest trip down memory lane:

• Wing Commander: Privateer, Wing Commander: Academy and Wing Commander: Armada
• Strike Commander and Theme Hospital
• Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret
• Ultima I through Ultima IX, including Ultima VII: The Complete Edition
• Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss and Ultima Underworld II

Road Rash Returns After 30 Years

Road Rash is the headline comeback. The franchise that defined combat racing in the 1990s returns in the first ever digital release of the 1996 PC version. The Anniversary Edition keeps the highway-battle formula intact while adding a fully relicensed soundtrack featuring Soundgarden, Paw, Hammerbox, Monster Magnet, Swervedriver and Therapy?, restored full-motion video scenes, framerates up to 60 per second, native controller support, windowed mode and cloud saves.

How EA Restored These Classics From a Forgotten Vault

The restoration began with a discovery. In March 2022, EA Senior Producer Jim Vessella found a vast physical media vault at EA's Redwood Shores campus, filled floor-to-ceiling with almost 20,000 archival assets, including master tapes for Wing Commander and Road Rash. A small team then spent years digitising the archive, preserving an estimated 2,500 hours of footage and re-editing the original cinematic scenes frame by frame.

Wing Commander III and IV alone had more than 1,000 full-motion video scenes restored from the source master tapes, with optional upscaled versions. Privateer 2, which starred Clive Owen, John Hurt and Christopher Walken in its live-action cutscenes, had more than 100 scenes restored the same way, while Wing Commander Prophecy had more than 150 scenes restored and includes its Secret Ops episodes.

Wing Commander fans also get a bonus never available digitally before: the Kilrathi Saga versions of the first three games come integrated with their installations, with digital music and a re-orchestrated soundtrack. Anyone who already owned a digital copy of the Wing Commander games on GOG or the EA App receives the matching Anniversary Edition upgrade at no extra cost.

EA Classic Games on Steam: Prices and How to Buy

Every game is sold individually, so there is no need to buy a bundle to play one favourite. The seven Anniversary Editions are priced at $9.99 each, and the other 18 classic games cost $4.99 each. EA is running special launch pricing on Steam and GOG from November 5 to November 19, and reports say some Ultima and Wing Commander bundles are discounted by 55 percent, so check the store page before buying.

1. Open Steam, GOG or the EA App on your PC and search for the game by name, such as Road Rash or Wing Commander.
2. Choose the Anniversary Edition for the restored version, or the standard classic release for the faithful port.
3. Buy and install the game. Anniversary Editions run natively on Windows 10 and 11, with controller support and cloud saves built in.
4. If you already own a Wing Commander game digitally on GOG or the EA App, check your library first: the Anniversary Edition upgrade is free there.

Why This Restoration Matters for Game Preservation

This launch is about more than nostalgia. For years, many of these games were effectively lost to modern players: Road Rash had never been sold digitally at all, and the Wing Commander games were stuck on ageing discs. By recovering the master tapes with help from the Wing Commander community, EA has turned a preservation project into a playable catalogue for current hardware. Wing Commander defined space combat, Road Rash defined combat racing and Ultima shaped the role-playing game, and all 25 are available now on Steam, GOG and the EA App.