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Joystiq reports GameTap to support Mac
OK, it's been a busy day in Macville, what with the D Conference doing its best impression of Comdex and inspiring scores of product announcements. Still worthy of mention from earlier today: our sister site Joystiq posted an interview with two GameTap VPs on the upcoming changes to the GameTap offering. The most notable change for our people won't be along until late summer: a Mac implementation of GameTap.com will be released. This tidbit was so surprising to blogger Alexander Silwinski that he responded "Late summer you'll have a what?" Classic.For those not familiar, GameTap is a gaming subscription service; imagine NetFlix but without actually mailing DVDs, and, like, for PC games. Check out details here.
Thanks Chris & Uros.
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JeffDM said 8:51PM on 5-30-2007
Macofascist strikes again!
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Greg G said 9:29PM on 5-30-2007
Huh? I use Mac and I love gaming on it.
Sheesh. Don't even trust your own product enough to do anything, huh?
I'm actually looking forward to this. It'll allow us to play games from any system, even windows, on our Mac. Pretty cool if you ask me.
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XGM said 9:29PM on 5-30-2007
OMG Sweet i get to play like 5 games ?
Well its a start, now if only game making companies started to develop more on the mac i can get rid of that Vista partition that is awaiting Halo 2
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Brendan Piper said 10:29PM on 5-30-2007
Ok, if someone hacks this to the Apple TV and get's that USB port working I would be thrilled.
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tim said 12:21AM on 5-31-2007
This post really does not explain GameTap at all.
GameTap is a service that essentially charges you to download ROMs of games from old video game systems, that you then run on a handy emulator. You can currently do this, and have been able to do this for at least ten years for most older systems (which is all GameTap offers).
So, if you really want to play Sonic the Hedgehog, you can do it on GameTap (or just download a Genesis emulator for OS X).
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Michael Rose said 6:28AM on 5-31-2007
From GameTap.com:
GREAT GAMES
The extensive and comprehensive GameTap library includes hundreds of the all-time greatest videogames:
• Brand new exclusive games, such as the wildly offbeat Sam & Max and the revolutionary Myst Online: Uru Live
• A vast selection of arcade classics, including favorites such as Pac-Man, Galaga, Frogger and Street Fighter II
• Your favorite classic console games, from Sonic the Hedgehog to Crazy Taxi
• Modern PC hits such as Splinter Cell, Tony Hawk, Tomb Raider, and Prince of Persia
• New games added weekly, for an ever-growing, never-ending collection of console, arcade and PC favorites!
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paul said 12:14AM on 6-01-2007
I work for the company (exent.com) that sold gametap the downloading technology they use, im interested to see how this will work.
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paul said 12:25AM on 6-01-2007
The only problem i have with Gametap is they offer a ton of old console games they tout as the greatest thing, they are fun for like 15 minutes, even if it is retro, you can see the reason you upgraded from a 8, 16 or 32 bit system... the computer games are another issue. im wondering if they will make PC games available on mac? wouldnt it be processor and memory heavy for that type of emulator for the nicer pc games?
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DarleenMB said 12:09PM on 7-11-2007
It would have been nice had someone bothered to mention that this will only work on an Intel based Mac. Thanks a lot.
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