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[Vark]

For people not in 'the loop' its Turners broadband cable channel... thing (http://www.gametap.com). Basically they're doing shows and video content a la G4 (but maybe one that won't suck) along with downloaded retro games from DC games to older console titles.

"Turner to date has licensed nearly 1,000 games from 17 publishers, including Activision, Atari, Eidos Interactive, G-Mode, Intellivision Lives, Midway, Namco, SEGA, TAITO, Team 17, Ubisoft and Vivendi Universal Games. GameTap will launch with 300 games, from Pong, Pac-Man and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, to Sonic and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. New titles and programming will be added each week. "

they sent out an e-mail yesterday that said it's going live in a few days. Apparently they've announced the subscription price for 14.95 a month with a two week free trial. They've also said there's a coupon in Ages of Myst for a trial of the service along with a Documentary they produced.

Personally I'm curious to see how it pans out. If it's successful it could be a great direct content type publisher / marketing force all in one. If the downloads are fast and the games are decent ports then it'd be well worth 15 bucks a month for unlimited access.

Conversely it could be shoddy PC ports and poor emulation a hoy. But then I guess thats what the trail period is for.

Anyone else going to try it out once they go live?

 

[Musashi Wins!]

I'm just finding out about it, but I'm definitely going to follow the progress, maybe try the trial. These sorts of distribution systems don't have a great history as far as I know, but if successful it would give another avenue to independent developers and I'm all for that.

 

[kaching]

I've been interested to see how this will turn out as well but I'm not a big fan of subscription based services for content I'd rather just pay for outright and own directly.

Just let me legitimately buy the original game ROM/image for a decent price. I'd be willing to pay $2-3 for older game roms/images that haven't been in circulation in their original format for 5+ yrs.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Sample version can be downloaded here:

https://account.gametap.com/storefront/download/samples1.do

I can't seem to register for the trial as it's apparently only open to the US?

It has a nice interface. Didn't realize how much fun Columns is.

 

[DEO3]

I just saw on Attack of the Show an interview of one of the guys who's put this together, and they had him demoing it. I'm really surprised I haven't heard anything about it before now, it seemed really interesting - it's like iTunes, but for games. Sure, you could probably find the roms for most of these game online, but this makes it easy and is relatively inexpensive.