There’s a bevy of gaming and streaming applications and devices en route to your iPhone and iPad, and Antstream Arcade has announced that beginning Thursday, June 27, the company will begin streaming access to over 1,300 licensed games from a variety of retro consoles, including the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, SEGA Genesis, and more.
Earlier this year, Apple updated its guidelines to permit game streaming apps in the App Store worldwide, allowing for a selection of games to be offered within a single app. These services, such as Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce NOW, were previously only accessible via the web on the iPhone and iPad.
Unlike other services and emulators, Antstream Arcade doesn’t make the user bring their own emulators that have been downloaded from the Internet. Per MacStories and MacRumors, the service will retail for $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year, following limited-time $3.99 per month or $29.99 per year pricing at launch. Antstream Arcade requires a Wi-Fi or cellular connection to stream games, and the service offers only a handful of games for consoles like the NES, SNES, Game Boy, and PS1.
Antstream Arcade is already available on platforms such as Android, Windows, and Xbox.
If you get a chance to try the service, please let us know what you make of it in the comments.
Via MacRumors and MacStories