Xbox Game Pass It recently added four more games to its Retro Classics service. With the addition of these four titles, the Retro Classics Collection now offers a total of 103 arcade/early PC and console games, all of which are available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers at no additional cost.
Shadow-dropped with no prior announcement or warning, Xbox Game Pass' Retro Classics Collection arrived on May 21, 2025. A collaboration between Xbox and Antstream Arcade, the Retro Classics Collection offers a plethora of retro games drawn from the deepest wells of Activision, Blizzard's history. At launch, Retro Classics offered 60 games, and that number has grown steadily over the past eight months, with about four games added to the service each month.
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Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics gets four new games in January 2026
Xbox Game Pass' Retro Classics collection just received its first wave of new games for the year. Like last month, the January 2026 drop adds four new games to the Retro Classics service, namely:
- Sky Patrol
- Keystone Coppers
- Laser gates
- Rise of the Dragon
Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics January 2026 game Sky Patrol explained
An Atari 2600 game with a rather mysterious origin, Sky Patrol Xbox Game Pass hits Retro Classics Collection in January 2026. Sky Patrol Imagic was developed by an American company that was fully featured in the Atari 2600 and Intellivision era. But unlike the imagic hit Atlantis, Riddle of the Sphinxand Monster Attack, Sky Patrol Never really hit the store shelves. Instead, just a few prototype copies Sky Patrol Made it into the wild in 1982, and they are far from a finished product.
The currently playable version of Sky Patrol It's a very basic hot air balloon simulator in which players take to the skies and don't really do much else. Although the finished game was reportedly going to feature a WW1 storyline in which players needed to avoid incoming fire from enemy aircraft, this prototype iteration has gone overboard with no real goal for players to strive for.
Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics January 2026 Game Keystone Kapers Explained
Developed by Activision's Gary Kitchen – a programmer and designer who is now on the board of advisors for the National Video Game Museum – Keystone Coppers Originally released for the Atari 2600 in 1983. Inspired by the 'Keystone Cops' featured in 1910s slapstick comedy films by Mack Sennett, Keystone Coppers Players take on the role of police officer Kelly, who must chase the thief Harry Hooligan through the department store and capture the comic criminal.
Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics January 2026 Game Laser Gates Explained
A side-scrolling spaceship shooter, Laser gates Also a hit on the Atari 2600 in 1983. Controlling the ship 'Dante Dart', players must navigate their way through the interior of a supercomputer defense system, shooting down enemy ships and turrets along the way to avoid collisions with the narrow tunnels they traverse. I like it a lot Sky Patrol, Laser gates Although the game was developed by Imagic, it was not officially released to the public.
Xbox Game Pass Retro Classics January 2026 Game Rise of the Dragon Explained
Moving forward in the 1990s, Rise of the Dragon Originally launched in DOS and later ported to Amiga, Mac OS, and Sega CD. Developed by Dynamix like many other 90s games The Adventures of Willy Beamish (which is also in the Retro Classics collection), Rise of the Dragon is a graphic adventure game played from both first- and third-person perspectives in which players move through environments, talk to characters, and solve environmental puzzles using information and items they acquire along the way.
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