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Everygame - Netflix of retro games
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iprice
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Despite the Mario & Donkey Kong screenies, can you imagine Nintendo giving permission for any of their games to be used via a 3rd party whether on or off of non-Nintendo hardware? I think not.
I'd be very wary of anything to do with this. It's either a total scam or they're using games illegally. Or both.
I'd be very wary of anything to do with this. It's either a total scam or they're using games illegally. Or both.
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EssoAir
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I suspect this is hosted in China where-in the government doesnt care and the worst that can happen in your respective country blocking the IP.
Personally id rather not stream a game that my phone and pandora can handle fine on their own. Im only interested in streaming if the game its self is too intensive for my hardware to play natively
Personally id rather not stream a game that my phone and pandora can handle fine on their own. Im only interested in streaming if the game its self is too intensive for my hardware to play natively
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How come China has more freedom than the rest of the world? 
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The link you gave says close to nothing about it. Here's a more informative thread:
http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=47697
Apparently they do intend to actually license the games, despite advertising every game ever and listing games that they'll never be able to license. Who knows what they're thinking.
One thing that could work in theory, for countries where game rentals are legal (like the US) would be to buy up several copies of the game and connect them to some kind of switching system that picks a game and goes into a Retrode-style interface for use on an emulator. They'd have to develop some cheap backplane that interfaces a huge number of carts for a very cheap price. Then buy up carts from used game stores or online. The rarer and more expensive the cartridge, the fewer people will be allowed to play it simultaneously.
This would really put it closer in line with the original Netflix model of sending out physical copies for rental, minus the sending out part. I don't think anyone would do that though.
http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=47697
Apparently they do intend to actually license the games, despite advertising every game ever and listing games that they'll never be able to license. Who knows what they're thinking.
One thing that could work in theory, for countries where game rentals are legal (like the US) would be to buy up several copies of the game and connect them to some kind of switching system that picks a game and goes into a Retrode-style interface for use on an emulator. They'd have to develop some cheap backplane that interfaces a huge number of carts for a very cheap price. Then buy up carts from used game stores or online. The rarer and more expensive the cartridge, the fewer people will be allowed to play it simultaneously.
This would really put it closer in line with the original Netflix model of sending out physical copies for rental, minus the sending out part. I don't think anyone would do that though.
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iprice
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GB folk once again get fecked in the cost dept -
UK=£9.99
US$9.99=£6.61
EUR9.99=£8.41
- According to Google's current rates.
I still can't see how they can possibly achieve this - all games for all systems ever. I wouldn't touch this with someone else's barge-pole.
UK=£9.99
US$9.99=£6.61
EUR9.99=£8.41
- According to Google's current rates.
I still can't see how they can possibly achieve this - all games for all systems ever. I wouldn't touch this with someone else's barge-pole.
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