EXAMINE THE VIABILITY OF TED TURNER'S GAMETAP

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Would look alright if I was a Sega or Atari fanboy.

Sorry Ted, still waiting for the Revolution, also: MAME.

― TOMBOT (allyzay), Sunday, 9 October 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

what it is?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Abandonware you have to pay for.

― adam (adam), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

boo

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

is anybody actually getting paid for it, or is this some "we bought the copyrights so pay us, bitchez" shit?

does Al Lowe actually get paid, etc?

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Looks like so far the viability rating is zilch.

Lovely business model, bullshit implementation. Next!!

― TOMBOT, Monday, 10 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

There's no Q-Bert.
There's no Marble Madness.
There's no reason for me to care about this.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

was that taken from the norton anthology of video game poetry?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS JUST TO SAY

I have saved over
your Ocarina of Time game
that was on
the memory card

and which
you were probably
saving
for this weekend

Forgive me
I missed Navi
and Dodongo
needed a beating

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I love you Nabisco.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Ha:

In the room the women come and go
talking of Super Mario.

Do I dare to eat out Peach?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

ONE OF US
ONE OF US

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

so much depends
upon

a silver hook
shot

guarded by the ghost
of Dampe

inside a treasure
chest

― antexit (antexit), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

That first one was brilliant, Nabisco!!!

― The Yellow Kid, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

SIR:

If only you had lived an honest life,
you wouldn't have died
in obscurity
kupo.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i like the idea of a subscription game service, but it doesn't work with my gamepad and the whole portal program sucks

― a.b. (alanbanana), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

but hey sam & max

― a.b. (alanbanana), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's shown Sega, Atari, and NINTENDO that people WILL pay for old games. Despite how much it sucks, it's probably got a decent number of subscribers.
The Wii will probably get at least one dowload per system the day they're connected. "I wonder how ell this works... hmm Five bucks? sure."

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

THIS IS JUST TO SAY

I have saved over
your Ocarina of Time game
that was on
the memory card

and which
you were probably
saving
for this weekend

Forgive me
I missed Navi
and Dodongo
needed a beating

-- nabisco (--...) (webmail), October 10th, 2005 3:56 PM. (nabisco) (link)

lmbo

― (9ò_ó)-o Q(^.^Q) (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 5 November 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://angledwhiteboards.com/2007/05/01/may-day/

Oh me, where to begin? May 31 will bring lots of great new titles and features, including a whole new website where you can actually do stuff.

First, you might as well get used to referring to the GameTap you know and love as the Deluxe Player. In the past, we’ve talked about design changes that you saw in the Deluxe Player. Now we get to talk about design changes you’ll see there AND on the web AND in something new, the Lite Player.

We’ve been awfully quiet the past few months, working on a complete website/Deluxe/Lite experience that integrates a ton of features you’ve asked for. Features like user ratings, related games, user profiles and avatars, forums, enhanced search, shared playlists, quick game launch, and more.

On May 31, the tap opens to full blast - all these features (and more), plus free games, retail games via digital distribution, brand new games free for subscribers the very same day they go retail, GameTap TV on the web.

So, today you’ll see plenty of coverage out there talking about free games for people who don’t subscribe. (All you subscribers - another new term - you’re GameTap Gold!) What does that mean for you? How about more challengers in popular free Challenge! games [Metal Slug and King of Fighters series, anyone?], more folks mixing it up in the new forums, and a generally expanded community of like-minded gamers. And only you get unlimited access to all the games in the catalog, whenever, wherever. It’s 24/7.

---

http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12875.html
Launch titles for the free, ad-supported offering will include Metal Slug from SNK Playmore, Taito's Bust-A-Move and Space Invaders, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend from Eidos, as well as Midway titles Joust, Robotron: 2084, and Rampage.

― abanana, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Gametap 3.0 launched today, but it's so buggy right now that I can't figure out how to use the new features.

― abanana, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:13 (eighteen years ago)

Psychonauts got added today.

― abanana, Thursday, 14 June 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

guys can we make this a thread about how kewl ted turner is

― cankles, Thursday, 14 June 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.rosreinesgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/0605/NYC%20and%20dinner%20with%20Ted%20Turner_1.jpg

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 2 August 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://members.aol.com/robertogari/guy.jpg

― Jordan, Thursday, 2 August 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

so why doesn't microsoft buy this shit?

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

except maybe that would then cause all of gametaps' licensing deals to implode

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 October 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Seriously, is anybody doing this? Cause I'm considering.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:20 (seventeen years ago)

I use the free version sometimes when I boot into Windows. Mostly it's cool for trying out the occasional B-grade PC game that you never got around to from a few years back, since modern emulators work much better for ROMs and the online play... well, Kaillera was better, which doesn't speak well for the Tap.

If I didn't already own it, Psychonauts definitely would've been worth using GameTap for. I also thought Mr. Robot was okay, though Starscape was a better game (Moonpod's earlier shareware game).

Is it worth how ever many dollars a month it is? I don't know. They do seem to be actually trying, though. I hope it continues, and I hope Good Old Games turns out well, too.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 06:47 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.gametap.com/play/gameDetails/000587850

― kingfish, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

They haven't added much of interest in months (altho yes this will change soon). I'm on the $60/year deal but I don't use it much.

― abanana, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 08:56 (seventeen years ago)

Do you get to download and keep the games on your pc or do you have to use them as an intermediary; i.e., do you lose the games when you quit subscription?

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

Pretty much - that's how it works with the free account. It stays downloaded to your hard drive, but you can't run it without permission from the GT client.

― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

http://i38.tinypic.com/2wejq82.png

― Will M., Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/08/06/turner-to-sell-gametap-time-warner-reveals/

The current year quarter included an $18 million noncash impairment of GameTap as a result of Turner's decision to sell its on-line video game business

― abanana, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

MY TED TURNER AS SNAKE WAS GOLD YOU GUYS

― Will M., Friday, 8 August 2008 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

Ted Turner is a monumentally amazing man. The world would be a better place if he was still in charge of Turner.

― Garrett Martin, Friday, 8 August 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

Okay, he looks like snake.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 8 August 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

"There was a problem accessing game files. Please contact Customer Support at 1-866-GAMETAP."

― thomp, Friday, 24 October 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

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