Rockstar is best known for "Grand Theft Auto" and "Red Dead," but it also has a very good street racing series called "Midnight Club" that can be traced to the past. It is not particularly famous these days: the original is almost 20 years old, and the latest "Midnight Club: Los Angeles" was released in 2008. Its visibility is further diminished by the fact that none of the games are available on Steam.

Midnight Club 2 is indeed available, but you'll have to Google it to find the link, as it doesn't show up in a Steam search. (This is because, according to the Midnight Club Wiki, it was delisted in early 2018 because the license for the music in the game is expiring.

Earlier today, however, it made a surprise comeback. Someone hit the wrong button (figuratively, or so we assume) and all of Rockstar's games were suddenly removed from sale on Steam. Naturally, there was a great rush to get all the games back, and "Midnight Club 2" was put back on sale.

Rockstar confirmed that the comeback of Midnight Club 2 was a mistake. The number of concurrent players has jumped to 40, the highest number in nearly four years, and according to a half-dozen or so new Steam user reviews that appeared today, there have been at least a couple of new sales.

There was also a lot of excitement on the Steam forums, with some threads celebrating the "resumption of sales" and others lamenting the "end of sales" and asking for help tracking them down. Unfortunately, however, it's going to take some good old-fashioned effort, such as buying the box on Amazon or eBay. (Midnight Club 2 actually predates Steam by a bit, so that's what I had to do when it was new anyway.)

Rockstar's website has a link to purchase the PS3 version, but unfortunately that's no longer available and I can't get anywhere.

Purely speculative, but the fact that Rockstar has left "Midnight Club 2" on Steam, accessible but buried, makes me think that there may be hope for a proper revival one day. Rockstar removed the out-of-license tracks from "Grand Theft Auto 4" a few years ago. Perhaps today's excitement over the all-too-brief comeback will convince someone at Rockstar to start thinking about a more permanent arrangement.