This cloud-based platform boasts some 1,300 retro games from the Amiga (201 games), Amstrad (35 games), Arcade (293 games), Atari 8-Bit (28 games ), Atari 2600 (28 games), Atari 5200 (1 game), Atari 7800 (11 games), Commodore 64 (358 games), DOS (5 games), Game Boy (5 games), Lynx (5 games), Mega Drive (57 games), MSX (13 games), MSX 2 (1 game), NES (33 games), Super Nintendo (42 games), PS1 (2 games) and ZX Spectrum (351 games). Once selected, games will launch without installation and will support local multiplayer on affected titles, cloud saves (four slots for each game), the ability to pick up where you left off, leaderboards online as well as a system of mini-games that hijack the codes of the original games to set up community challenges (for example a Pac-Man in which you have to avoid collecting the pellets).
never too retro
The release of Antstream Arcade on Xbox consoles also marks the first appearance of a third-party cloud subscription service in the Xbox ecosystem, with Bond noting that the service is powered by Microsoft’s Azure technology. On the occasion of this launch, Antstream Arcade broadcast a first Anstream Connect program (see below) and intends to reproduce the experience each month to highlight the novelties of its catalog. And the price in all this? Two solutions for Xbox players: an annual subscription at 30 euros or pay 80 euros directly to obtain an unlimited pass to current and future titles in the catalog. Launched in 2020 and downloaded by 3 million people to date, Anstream Arcade is available in Europe, UK, USA, Canada and Vatican. Amen.