Antstream Arcade – Review

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We’re off to the beach for fish and chips and an hour at the arcades… While Antstream might not have the sand, fish or chips, we do have a plethora of games and anyone who stepped foot in an arcade in the 80’s and 90’s will instantly feel nostalgic.

Anstream Arcade is coming to Xbox on Thursday the 20th July, with a bucket and space full of over 1400 retro games played instantly, through the cloud

We’ve heard a lot about cloud gaming over the last few years, but one service that’s not been in the limelight is Antstream Arcade, launched 4 years ago and growing from strength to strength, it now becomes the first external cloud gaming service available on Xbox.

Rather than trying to relay next-gen games over the cloud, Antstream sticks to the classics, mostly from the 80’s and 90’s you’ll see hundreds of games from Arcade, Commodore, Spectrum, Atari and Amiga, as well as often dozens from NES, SNES, Megadrive, MSX, DOS and Lynx and even a few PS1 titles.

In total there’s currently said to be 1470 titles to choose from, with new games added often weekly, (Full game list available here) – I highly recommend scrolling through that list, because I’m pretty sure you’ll find dozens and dozens of games you cant wait to experience again.

so we jumped into Anstream to check out the selection as well as see how well they play on a modern system, especially over the cloud.

First up, we’re greeted with a main page, packed with game titles, I immediately saw classics like Gauntlet, Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja and Smash TV, but delving a little deeper Who Dares WIns, Bomb Jack, Clayfighter, King of Monsters, Speedball, and Double Dragon reassured me that there’s certainly a lot to choose from.

Obviously it’s never easy to find specific