10 Awesome Old-School Video Game Features We Don't See Anymore
8. Compilations
Referring to such collections as the impeccable Mega Games collections on the Sega Megadrive and the like back in the nineties, traditional multi-game compilation releases are sadly a thing of the past.
What better to spend your pocket money on than Streets of Rage? Well, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and Revenge of Shinobi all on the same cartridge, of course.
Sometimes packed in with console hardware but available as separate purchases in their own right too, these compilation titles were a veritable Dragon’s hoard for old-school gamers.
Where gamers would sometimes buy a game, get it home, and hate it, now they had two or three other games on the same cartridge to try out instead.
Want to buy a football game, a racing game, and a side-scrolling shoot ‘em up but can only afford one? Compilations had your back.
Compilation titles do still exist today, of course, but more as repackaged nostalgia pieces with niche commercial appeal, such as the Atari Flashback Classics on PS4 or Dreamcast Collection on Xbox 360.
Whilst such released certainly have value as lovingly curated retro highlights, they are very different to the readily available compendiums of anachronistic titles of days gone by.