With this, Xbox could easily boast the best backwards compatibility suite the console world has ever seen, far surpassing anything that Nintendo and PlayStation are able to offer. Sure, Antstream is available on PlayStation as well, but this whole Xbox Retro Classics initiative suggests Microsoft has even more of a keen interest in the program.

Microsoft announced this week that Xbox Game Pass subscribers will get access to "Retro Classics," an app they can download that contains more than 50 classic Activision titles from the 1980s and 90s.

Game Pass members can now play over 50 old-school games for free. Microsoft's Retro Classics is a library of old-school Activision and Blizzard games from the '80s and '90s, like Pitfall! and MechWarrior 2.