Today, Turner Broadcasting launched
GameTap, its online games-on-demand
service. GameTap allows subscribers to pay a monthly fee for unlimited access to its collection of retro (and
not-so-retro) titles. At launch, the service is dominated with titles from various Sega platforms, including 32 X,
Dreamcast (only Hydro Thunder & Mr. Driller), Game Gear, Genesis, and Master System—GameTap also
features arcade & windows-based games and titles from the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. It's no surprise that
Nintendo has steered clear of GameTap, as it plans to launch a similar service for the Nintendo Revolution.
With the prevalence of emulators and ROMs it's not hard to see why a service like GameTap was launched, providing a legal method of playing games of yesteryear on your PC. That being said, most (if not all) of the games featured on GameTap can be easily acquired and played for free. But that's certainly an ethical dilemma; not to mention, Mr. Turner and his wide-reaching empire would be cheated out of your $14.95 monthly subscription fee. Anyone signed up yet?
[Thanks, William]
