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Steam gets a boatload of restored Wing Commanders and Ultima ports after EA producer stumbles across cupboard of old tapes

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Steam gets a boatload of restored Wing Commanders and Ultima ports after EA producer stumbles across cupboard of old tapes

"He took me over there, opened it up and it was like Indiana Jones"

EA have stuck a bunch of restored versions and ports of classic games, on Steam, GOG and the EA App. 25 games in all, including multiple entries in the Wing Commander and Ultima series, are part of the haul. Why's this happening now? Well, an EA producer stumbled across a cupboard full of old tapes, film reels and CDs.

According to an interview with The Game Business, the discovery of this old gubbins was a consequence of EA senior producer Jim Vessella needing somewhere new to stick a bunch of Betacam tapes used to help make the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. "One of the facilities people was like, 'I think there’s a room in the other building that has a couple of items like that'," Vessella recalled. "He took me over there, opened it up and it was like Indiana Jones… just, whoa. Knowing what I’d discovered with the Command & Conquer tapes, I really felt like we had to find out what was on all these tapes."

The producer was able to convince EA's bosses that this stuff was worth the work needed to stick it back on storefronts, and lo, an EA blog post gushing about their vault's door having slid aside to reveal this pile of retro games.



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