Xbox gamers delighted by massive new free game drop: 'let's go'

Xbox now has a big games drop for you to enjoy, and fans are over the moon.

This week, Xbox launched its new Retro Classics app, a library of old games for you to enjoy with your Game Pass subscription.

When we say retro library, we don’t mean Resident Evil 2 or Final Fantasy 6 (typing that made me feel old), but the real classics.

We’re talking Zork, or Police Quest, or MechWarrior.

It’s a good chance for gamers to discover (or rediscover) those old gems that they otherwise wouldn’t have heard of.

I mean, some of these games are nearly 50 years old by now.

“Finally I can play Zork from the comfort of my couch without having to start up Call of Duty: Black Ops,” wrote one comment on Reddit.

This is a joke pointing to the fact that the original Black Ops game had an Easter egg where you could play Zork from the main menu.

Another comment wrote: “This just continues to make Game Pass a more compelling product. Neat stuff.”

“MechWarrior 2 was my first PC game as a kid,” another comment wrote. “I wanna play five now. I hope it’s good.”

The whole Reddit thread is full of more commenters reminiscing about games they played when they were younger. It’s well worth a read if you have similar nostalgia.

Out of the list, which has been compiled by PureXbox, I’ve played a few of these myself. I remember playing Atlantis on an old home computer, and I’ve certainly played River Raid too.

But there are a bunch here I've never even heard of, so it'd be great to have a way to check them out.

This new release from Xbox should hopefully kickstart a new interest in retro gaming, especially if younger people start playing them.

It also sounds like Microsoft will be increasing the list over time. At the moment, we have about 60 games available on the service, but that number should rise to over 100 retro titles at some point.

The only caveat is that they can’t be played locally on your system, but are instead streamed over the internet.