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A barrage of classic games are on the way to the Xbox platform. Antstream Arcade is a streaming service that offers over 1,400 retro video games to play through its cloud subscription service. The service has been available on PC and streaming sticks for a while now, but this will be the first time the service will launch on a console. Antstream Arcade offers a library of games from systems like the Atari 2600, SNES, PlayStation 1, and more.

Some of those games include Earthworm Jim, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Day of the Tentacle, and Calfornia Games.

Currently, there are 1,470 games available to choose from. They also include achievements, tournaments, and mini-games as part of their subscription. A full 12-month subscription is priced at $29.99. A full list of their current library can be seen on their official site. It'll launch on July 21st.

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[Costello]

I love the idea of a Netflix for retro games. A solution needs to be found so that all those games from our childhood can be played once more.

Sadly the current game catalog doesn’t appeal to me that much. I’ll follow this closely, hopefully they will be adding better titles in the future!

 

[WalterSlovotsky]

This is an absolutely abysmal selection of games. I can see why it's thirty bucks a year.

Apparently, they REALLY like California Games.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Lol...a whopping 2 PS1 games was all they could manage to get licensing for? Surely there are a good handful of the some ~2500 PS1 games they could grab the licensing for cheap by now, there was a lot of shovelware and one offs that they could add for padding out the library at least.

Seems like a majority of the "1470" games are just C64/ZX/Amiga abandonware with a few classics thrown in here or there on other systems to give it the illusion of value. Definitely not something I'd spend $30 a year on, probably not even $30 for life even. A good idea in theory, but definitely needs a much better library before I'll bother with it.

 

[Pickle_Rick]

Streaming retro games that are pretty sensitive to input lag that can by all means just run locally seems like a great idea!

 

[LokeYourLord]

Streaming this, streaming that, streaming everything,
subscription this, subscription that, subscription everything...

NO! God damn it, when is the nightmare going to end? Video streaming, alright, I can get behind that. Music... meh, quality is dogshit, but then games?

Look, if you stream it yourself via your own Machine through means like Parsec, fine, you own the game, it's your machine which you have full ownership and control over and you can do with as you please, then awesome. But this never ending anti-consumerism is starting to piss me off, and the fact people enable this crap by paying for it is even worse.

PS: Anyone defending these anti-consumer practices can go jump in a pool of LEGO.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

This has 10,000 Games in 1 handheld energy

 

[gaga941021]

I love the idea of a Netflix for retro games. A solution needs to be found so that all those games from our childhood can be played once more.

Sadly the current game catalog doesn’t appeal to me that much. I’ll follow this closely, hopefully they will be adding better titles in the future!

Streaming is shit. No matter what.

 

[JuanMena]

My Wii can do the same for free

And it's 15 years old x2

 

[KiiWii]

“For the real players” made me cringe.

 

[raxadian]

Honesty how many videogame streaming services have to die for them to understand that this is a bad idea? People may like to play games they own on a tablet or streamed to their phone, but that's with local streaming and almost no lag.

 

[Xzi]

If your whole game library amounts to like a 20 GB download, it better be a REALLY high quality 20 gigabytes, and I don't think they quite cleared that bar.

 

[gaga941021]

“For the real players” made me cringe.

I mean, this is subjective. For example, you made me cringe, because you cringed on a simple marketing sentence like this.

 

[pedro702]

most of the games are crap... and there is no reason to be streamed, a simple release would run every game even on wii...

 

[LokeYourLord]

most of the games are crap... and there is no reason to be streamed, a simple release would run every game even on wii...

I'm pretty sure most Calculators, Microwaves and Toasters could run 95% of the library on there, not exactly a high value library they have there imo...

 

[KiiWii]

I mean, this is subjective. For example, you made me cringe, because you cringed on a simple marketing sentence like this.

Eurgh. Replies like this make me cringe, that you possibly cringed at an initial cringe. /s

Let’s be honest: “for the players” is the REAL marketing sentence.

They cringe is them marketing this tat at all imho.

 

[Bladexdsl]

streaming you say? what idiot would pay to stream OLD games? (cough nintensheep) fuck off i'll stick to emulation

 

[wormdood]

I feel like if antstream is worth mentioning then so is webrcade not only does it let you play all these same systems on Xbox series x/s (with a few very minor caveats of course) that antstream does. It additionally plays n64 and it does it all through the processing power of the internet browser. it's also free to use and as far as the game Library well it uses your game Library, that's right outside of a few included Homebrew and freeware games for various systems that come included with the free service you provide the ROMs via cloud storage. the save files are also cloud-based making it easy to pick up and play on another device with a compatible internet browser

Could I go on yes could I have used a better grammar definitely but I'm not a gbatemp reporter Nor in my affiliated with webrcade so I feel like I've done enough talking them up

 

[gaga941021]

Eurgh. Replies like this make me cringe, that you possibly cringed at an initial cringe. /s

Let’s be honest: “for the players” is the REAL marketing sentence.

They cringe is them marketing this tat at all imho.

You do realise, that "for the players" is a Sony thing, right? They can't use that.

 

[KiiWii]

You do realise, that "for the players" is a Sony thing, right? They can't use that.

<face desk>

That’s entirely what I’m getting at.