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Rather than googling it my lazy self, can you tell me what Gametap is and/or how you like it?

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It's a subscription service like Netflix, except instead of movies you get games, and instead of getting the games through the mail, you get them by downloading them onto your computer using Gametap's client. And the only limit to the number of games you can have "out" at a time is how much space you have on your hard drive. They have over 840 games right now and they regularly add new ones, with most of the recent additions being on the recently-released side. A lot of the games are ports of old arcade or early-console titles -- Galaga, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Tempest, Defender, Dig Dug, Crazy Taxi, Tony Hawk, etc....They also have a lot of family/edutainment games. But they also have a good and quickly growing selection of PC games -- a lot of classic adventure games like Zork, Space/King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Dark Seed, all the Myst games (including a new Myst MMO called Uru developed exclusively for Gametap), but also newer titles like the strategy games I mentioned, Splinter Cell, Pandora Tomorrow, Far Cry, both Deus Ex games, Serious Sam, a bunch of Tom Clancy games, the Descents (including the 2 Freespace games), X2, Tachyon, Space Empires IV, a couple early Command & Conquers, Empire Earth, both Tropicos, Settlers III, Prince of Persia, Beyond Good & Evil, Second Sight, bunch of Tomb Raiders, bunch of Sim Cities, etc etc etc you get the picture.

Oh and they also have a lot of great RPGs, everything from the Might & Magic games (through Clouds of Xeen) to both Baldur's Gates & Icewind Dales and Planescape:Torment too.

The client's decent & they're working actively on improving it. You can use AIM in-client, check on the exact progress of your downloads, search for games by name, genre, or system, organize your downloaded games into user-created lists, participate in leaderboards for many of the arcade games, and more stuff.

One thing you can not do is cancel online. You gotta call their toll-free number and hold for eternity. When I asked them why they fed me some garbage about protecting my information. LOL yeah right.

All the same, at <$10/month ($7 if you sign up for a year)it's not a bad deal& you probably won't want to cancel for a while. Maybe by then they'll get with the times.