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[Jose92]

Antstream Arcade is coming to Xbox

Xbox will be supporting a third-party cloud gaming service for the first time, with Anstream Arcade launching on July 2…

www.gamesindustry.biz

The retro streaming platform will provide players with over 1,300 games on the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, including Space Invaders, Pac Man, and Mortal Kombat. Its catalogue includes titles from Atari, Commodore, Sega, Nintendo, and PlayStation consoles.

Players will be able to choose between an annual subscription to the platform for $29.99 or $79.99 for lifetime access. The service will be available in Europe, UK, USA, and Canada.

Antstream Arcade is currently available on PC, Mac, Android, Nvidia Shield, Amazon Fire TV, and Atari VCS.

Would be a good addition to game pass probably will be coming in the future in some form.

 

[acm2000]

cant see it being added to game pass but its not a competing platform so makes sense to come to xbox and i assume playstation eventually

 

[ReBurn]

The arcade and C64 lists are pretty good. Surprised to see all of the Neo Geo titles. An $80 lifetime subscription isn't too bad, either. I would like to try it out.

 

[Punished Miku]

The arcade and C64 lists are pretty good. Surprised to see all of the Neo Geo titles. An $80 lifetime subscription isn't too bad, either. I would like to try it out.

Yeah, it's an interesting pricing model. $80 for life is doable if there are actually things I'd want to play. I'll look at it.

 

[Ar¢tos]

No Chaos: The Battle of Wizards in the ZX spectrum list greatly reduces my interest...

 

[ReBurn]

Yeah, it's an interesting pricing model. $80 for life is doable if there are actually things I'd want to play. I'll look at it.

It's good to see so many of the classic Williams and Atari arcade games there. If the service works well I could see myself spending a lot of time with stuff like Robotron 2084, Joust and Missile Command. As a means of access and preservation I like the idea. A lot of younger gamers find these old games boring, though. So I don't have much hope in its longevity as a commercial service.

 

[Punished Miku]

I don't have much hope in its longevity as a commercial service.

For sure. The "lifetime pass" is more like, however long they are alive, not however long we are alive lol.

 

[tryDEATH]

$80 for a life time license to 1300 games sounds like an amazing deal even if there are only a handful of games that I would be interested in.

 

[alienator]

80$ for a lifetime licence where u dont own anything sounds like a great deal! If anyone wonders how 16 bit pixel tilesets look with videocompression: try it!

 

[ReBurn]

80$ for a lifetime licence where u dont own anything sounds like a great deal! If anyone wonders how 16 bit pixel tilesets look with videocompression: try it!

I know right? One time I went to this place that lets you drive go-karts inside. I spent like 3 hours there and it cost me about $80 and can you believe that when I was done I didn't own the go-kart, the track, or even the helmet? I mean, I had a blast for the time I was using it but the least they could have done was let me own everything instead of just letting borrowing it for money. Don't even get me started on not owning the bowling alley when I went there. Or the movie theater. Or when I had to pay to park at the beach but I didn't get to own the parking spot or the beach. I don't understand how it's possible to enjoy using something I don't own but somehow I keep managing to.

 

[Operations66]

This looks pretty cool, actually. I'm in.

 

[AJUMP23]

For $80 I would say why not. But it sounds cool.

 

[Isa]

Is there a list of current and upcoming games for the service? Also the streaming quality could really be the deal breaker for me, as would the controller support. But otherwise I like the idea.

 

[tryDEATH]

Is there a list of current and upcoming games for the service? Also the streaming quality could really be the deal breaker for me, as would the controller support. But otherwise I like the idea.

This certainly isn't for hardcore retro gamers as it doesn't have any of the mega hits many would want and there are some emulation issues when it comes to picture quality.

Games List | Antstream

Antstream Play over 1300 retro games such as Metal Slug, Double Dragon, Bubble Bobble and Pac Man on Xbox, Playstation, iOS, Android, Windows and online.

www.antstream.com

 

[Isa]

This certainly isn't for hardcore retro gamers as it doesn't have any of the mega hits many would want and there are some emulation issues when it comes to picture quality.

Games List | Antstream

Antstream Play over 1300 retro games such as Metal Slug, Double Dragon, Bubble Bobble and Pac Man on Xbox, Playstation, iOS, Android, Windows and online.

www.antstream.com

Thanks for the link! And the info, those two things are pretty important. Browsing the list and nothing was particularly catching my eye sadly. I might hold off for now.

 

[Quasicat]

There’s a lot of stuff on here, but I recently discovered Webrcade where I loaded my own games through Dropbox and can play them through my Xbox Edge browser. It takes about 20 minutes to set up, but it’s free and can also play on my iPhone through Safari.

https://www.webrcade.com/

Here’s a tutorial video if interested:

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

$80 for a life time license to 1300 games sounds like an amazing deal even if there are only a handful of games that I would be interested in.

80$ for a lifetime licence where u dont own anything sounds like a great deal! If anyone wonders how 16 bit pixel tilesets look with videocompression: try it!

 

[Dr.Morris79]

No Chaos: The Battle of Wizards in the ZX spectrum

Oh C'mon man. It was a good little thing for pissing around with coding but gaming?

Fook that. Rather drink boiled piss.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Skimming the list, most games are shitty C and D tier games. The best section is the arcade section with about 300 games which does have a good selection of classic 80s and early 90s games.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Oh C'mon man. It was a good little thing for pissing around with coding but gaming?

Fook that. Rather drink boiled piss.

Not taking the low quality bait, sorry.
Spectrum had some really fun games.

 

[Fess]

I want to try it to see how bad the latency and image quality is at my location, but the pricing is a hurdle: $30 per month… or $80 for a one time fee. Both alternatives are making me take a step back. Needs a free trial.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Not taking the low quality bait, sorry.
Spectrum had some really fun games.

I'll submit and say that Zorro was not bad, Dizzy wernt too bad either. For anything else, C64.

 

[Zathalus]

I want to try it to see how bad the latency and image quality is at my location, but the pricing is a hurdle: $30 per month… or $80 for a one time fee. Both alternatives are making me take a step back. Needs a free trial.

$30 per year.

 

[Fess]

$30 per year.

Ah that makes more sense lol

 

[01011001]

the most profoundly stupid idea in the history of gaming.

most of these games are smaller than 5MB.
most of these games can be emulated on low power, cheap as fuck hardware.
most of these games rely on fast input response.

this is, astonishingly fucking retarded...

playing Mortal Kombat over a cloud stream would need more data after 10 seconds of gameplay than downloading the whole game.

the app needed for streaming the games most likely needs more processing power than emulating it on MAME.

and a small scale cloud service like this most likely doesn't have the best server coverage, meaning latency will be ridiculously variable.

like... I'm repeating myself, but, god damn is this just so exceptionally braindead