Has anyone tried Antstream on PC?
I've not, but it sounds like something I'd subscribe to for a dose of nostalgia.
It's coming to Xbox next week (July 21).
Fancy going twos-up on OG Mortal Kombat? Loser pays for the chippy.
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Speaking as a proud new arcade machine owner, I think a curated set of quality games is much more exciting than "every game ever made". You get paralysed by choice... and to be honest, the vast majority of retro games aren't actually that good! (Come at me..)
Interesting service. Did a bit of digging and it's been going for a good few years after a kickstarter in 2019.
Now for a bit of a rant...
Turns out there is a free to play tier, but it's pretty confusing and barely mentioned on the site. Looks like you earn credits somehow that you can then spend to unlock other challenges maybe? not really clear. It isn't really explained at all though what is going on once you sign up for free and what you can/can't do, what these credits are all about etc. During my sign up it asked for a display name, then I had to go off to do the email confirmation, then it came back and said I needed to put a display name in again (the one I first chose is now taken...), then later I clicked on premium too see if there is a lifetime price like there is via xbox billing, it takes me to another web page which once again asks for a unique username and the previous two I have had accepted now don't work here either so really not sure what I'm supposed to be doing. Its £30 a year via xbox, but its coming up as £40 via browser, I expected it to be cheaper billed direct! (it could be Brave browser blocking something and causing my choose your username issues).
That said the premium/full service looks pretty interesting and innovative with all this stuff wrapped around it shown in the screenshots I've done below. I really like the look if it/the idea v plain vanilla games served up to play emulated via the cloud and no extra value add like this:
it isn't mentioned anywhere that I can see on the site but you go to the link below to sign up without paying instead of the main welcome page.https://live.antstream.com/
aha! it's £12 for 12 months via green man gaming or 4 months for £4.50.
https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/antstream-arcade-annual-pass-pc/
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