GameClub overview

[Music] hello and welcome to Pocket Gamer top biz with me John Jordan so in this video today we're just looking at the new subscription iPhone game service called game Club so game Club it's kind of interesting it's come out just a few weeks or actually a month after the Apple arcade subscription service came out so apple arcades very kind of high-end brand new games coming out $5 a month game Club also $5 a month also a premium games with no ads or anything like that in but very different in kind of scope so very much about a retro game so all these are games that have already been released my phone games that have already been released and ones that for various reasons over the years weren't maintained so I guess the big one was as my iPhone games went to 64-bit a whole bunch of you know indie developers had these old games they couldn't really be bothered it

wasn't really financially viable for them to spend their time grading the code also awfully kind of retina resolution graphics there's another big thing you know do you want to tell you remake all your graphics for a game that's not selling any copies No and particularly mostly this free-to-play came in a lot of these games mostly yeah they weren't for your place and so they didn't really get any I'm looking they became a legacy game so what game club is doing which is pretty interesting is to kind of kind of resurrect these games and some of them wouldn't say no all of them I think it slots with the hundred games with more coming every week but some of them some of them are kind of classics of the early iPhone era before free-to-play came in so I guess these released in like 2010 2011 2012 yeah that kind of time frame at least of the ones I remember I'm sure there's some newer ones as well this is just a quick look see what we got so hooked champ that was pretty pretty famous at the time so if you want to go in and play them you go in it kind of gives you you know it's bit like the like an app store app store within an app store don't quite how they get on the app store

rules for that but it tells you you know a bit of bit of stuff in this a bit of words and some screenshots and it's quite a lot of writing that's been done around these games is kind of a kind labor of love so we have these kind of you know relate stories here so you know some kind of tips and tips and tricks and a history here and then you know if you like that one yeah super quick cook and other kind of similar types of Cobre games so jam super crate box I mean really a PC game but but you know I guess probably all played super great boy super crate box I mean even I have now this is one I really liked mini squadrons are back in the day reviewed mini squadron for Pocket Gamer and some kind of newer ones here Mons I don't know past tales that pass the luma mage gauntlet you can see the type of game can be bit kind of you know a whole bunch of the seventies kind of pixel art a night bit kind of can I inspired things something

a bit more remember this woman iblast moki that was really really big at the time whenever that was this is gonna tell us when they came out you know this was quite quite a big deal Fox versus duck I played that one as well mmm so very simple touch game also the point of this is some games you may remember if you're old like me if you're not so old like me I don't know any of these games but the whole point is they've kind of been created so curated a security list so this should be pretty enjoyable and you know I guess for $5.00 a month should say you get the first month for free you can cancel anytime so here's a kind of a fairly fairly kind of risk-free sort of scenario another one here plunder land that was getting pretty famous at the time they played quite a lot of plunder line actually is I remember when I reviewed that one as well remember when else we got anything else

chopper - yeah that was really good one I guess some of these ones now by chopper 2 at the time was was pretty cool graphics are pretty cool I mean now might be seen as yeah a little bit a little bit not really old-fashioned but um you know these were games made yeah at their time you know before well often these are made actually by very small teams so teams I think mini squadron was just one guy really and plunder land was a few people you know these words these weren't big teams making these games so it's a very different sort of thing so be interesting to see how how how Game Club goes on so yeah but the games there then we've got this kind of editorial it's all kind of context which is a bit AppStore isn't it bit corrected but I guess it it's um maybe people are gonna who are like this it gonna be into finding out why these games are made and a bit of history of them so that kind of makes sense it's got a nice little kind of gamer fide thing so if I do more

things I do for play three different games like get the little badge their profile there's easy kind of interesting so I've not subscribed to it and if you do you can I set up an email and password all that sort of stuff push notifications and there's quite a lot of these kind of social stuff on it as well one nice thing is that if you bought any of these games previously and you're using the same Apple account obviously you can download them for free again so a lot so useful if you haven't played all off I think goes back in the past but but for someone like me probably forgotten the ones died the ones I did buy that's quite nice touch let's try forget minis quarter so when we how it works you better go into this screen and then you go and it takes you to the App Store and then see if I can get it so

interesting this it says this game does have in-app purchases which I didn't think they did actually go there's a bundle as well I think why why you want to buy a little bit let's look sir just wait wait this is download so it's not gonna let me do it anything until I do my subscription and I have already bought this game but I've not bought it on this account I don't think so let's see how this works [Music]

so actually looking above going through that cuz I have to go into a different account it's a bit tedious but anyway um I'm sure this work he chose that out but yeah okay guys the other flow happened so there we go that is a game club so I guess a slightly smaller audience of kind of enthusiasts then apple arcade but probably a more a more passionate group of people and obviously I guess if you read on games ten pounds a month isn't an enormous sum of money to get lots of free games I think if you don't like free-to-play stuff I guess if you're playing other platforms as well then an extra ten ten pounds or $10 a month maybe something to think a bit more social about anyway I think you're doing a good job it's nice that they are passionate about this sort of stuff and I guess it is good for some of these indie developers who have just never got around to updating their games and there were some pretty good games out there so hopefully over time we might see some more games kind of coming in to the game

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