The third-party website Fanatical has created a series of bundles of classic game trilogies and franchises onSteamfor the obscenely low price of one dollar. Players looking for nostalgia or to experience essential aspects of gaming history can scoop up a wealth of classic titles onSteamfor less than the price of a candy bar.
Steam has a storied tradition of discountsacross its tenure as PC’s most popular sales platform. For every season, celebration, holiday, or sometimes for seemingly no reason at all, Steam will slash the prices of games both old and new. For PC gamers, the temptation to purchase AAA titles at full price on release is abated by the near-assurance that within a year, that title will be on a generous discount as a part of a Steam sale. Naturally, this can lead to players filling their libraries with games they will never touch, but some deals are just too good to pass up.
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Fanatical has released its Dollar Collections Bundles on Steam with numerous franchises on as much as 98 percent discounts.Classic titles likeCommandos, Leisure Suit Larry,and thePostalfranchise are packaged for exactly one dollar. Gamers looking to fill out their gaming libraries or explore some of the most influential and controversial titles from the 90s and early aughts can now experience these games for next to nothing in terms of cost. Fanatical has included educational bundles as well, withKids Computing, Excel, and CAD/3Dpocket packs also slashed to a dollar. With a wide array of genres across multiple generations of gaming, there seems to be something for everyone inFanatical’s Dollar Collections Bundles.
From grand strategy and puzzle games, to platformers and shooters, even cursory fans of these genres would be hard-pressed to turn down such anenticing deal on Steam. Some game collectors will find a dollar’s worth of value in simply having those additional titles added to their library. For gaming historians, some of the most controversial titles in gaming’s history are included in several of the bundles. The lewd and pervertedLeisure Suit Larryfranchise broke new ground in the genre of point-and-click games with its farcical sex-based humor, and the notoriousPostalcollection of games re-defined shock value with the depths of its glib depravity.
While the value of a dollar is certainly subjective, there is no denying the worthiness of scooping up a collection of several fully-fledged titles for a single dollar. Even if thepurchased collection on Steamturns out to be a dud, the trivial cash amount at stake would seem worthwhile even if only to inform the buyer that the franchise or genre was not for them.
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