{"id":27067,"date":"2019-10-25T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27067"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T20:30:27","slug":"gameclub-revives-70-classic-ios-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/25\/gameclub-revives-70-classic-ios-games\/","title":{"rendered":"GameClub Revives 70 Classic iOS Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/gameclub-launches-a-subscription-service-that-revives-a-growing-catalog-of-70-classic-ios-games\/\">John Vorhees<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viticci\/status\/1187359444943953920\">Federico Viticci<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/reviews\/gameclub-launches-a-subscription-service-that-revives-a-growing-catalog-of-70-classic-ios-games\/\"><p>There&rsquo;s a terrific GameClub app that organizes the company&rsquo;s catalog of titles in one place, which I&rsquo;ll get into shortly, but the games can be downloaded separately, and you can subscribe whether you use the GameClub app or not. If you download a game directly, you&rsquo;ll simply be prompted to subscribe to the service from inside the game.<\/p><p>Each game also includes a link to restore your purchase if you previously purchased the game on the App Store before it became part of GameClub. For example, that means that anyone who bought a game like <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/id343242870?at=11lbfL&amp;ct=MacStories\">Sword of Fargoal<\/a>, which sat untouched for nine years before joining GameClub, can re-download a version that&rsquo;s compatible with today&rsquo;s Apple hardware for free and without signing up for GameClub. That&rsquo;s possible because it&rsquo;s the same game that was released long ago, just updated and re-released by GameClub. It&rsquo;s also entirely in sync with GameClub&rsquo;s preservation mission and demonstrates thoughtfulness and respect for users which match the love the company clearly has for the games they&rsquo;ve restored.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If all of this sounds a lot like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-arcade\/\">Apple Arcade<\/a>, that&rsquo;s because in many ways, it is. GameClub costs $4.99 per month after a one-month free trial, just like Apple Arcade. The subscription is managed through the App Store just like other app subscriptions, but that means that unlike Arcade, the subscription cannot be shared via Apple&rsquo;s Family Sharing feature.<\/p><p>GameClub has a catalog of games that&rsquo;s similar in size to Apple Arcade too. The company has signed over 100 classic games for the service, 70 of which are available today, and new games will be added weekly. Interestingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/toucharcade.com\/2019\/09\/09\/gameclub-trailer\/\">GameClub has also indicated<\/a> that the service will eventually include new titles too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/gameclub-plans-to-resurrect-abandoned-ios-games\/\">GameClub Plans to Resurrect Abandoned iOS Games<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Vorhees (via Federico Viticci): There&rsquo;s a terrific GameClub app that organizes the company&rsquo;s catalog of titles in one place, which I&rsquo;ll get into shortly, but the games can be downloaded separately, and you can subscribe whether you use the GameClub app or not. If you download a game directly, you&rsquo;ll simply be prompted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-10-25T20:30:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"07c68a2a-037d-4988-94f9-a8ce95431c2c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-10-25T20:30:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AB8aKKgN9SYiU-ajOlUMcLA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1421,1787,101,418,31,1667,26],"class_list":["post-27067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-apple-arcade","tag-business","tag-game","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27068,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27067\/revisions\/27068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}