Turner’s Gametap Launches With 300 Games, 24
Publishers
All-you-can play service features arcade, PC
and console games delivered direct via broadband-connected PC
ATLANTA – October 17, 2005 – Turner Broadcasting
System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) today announced the launch of GameTap, its
first-of-its-kind broadband entertainment network. Today GameTap officially
opens its massive vault of great video game content and original programming to
gamers across the United States. Announced last April, with previews at the
E3Expo and the American debut of the Download Festival, GameTap is already
critically acclaimed. It was dubbed "a great idea with great content at a
reasonable price" by Tribune Media Services, and Computer Gaming World magazine
said, "Somewhere between a TV channel and a Game-on-Demand service is GameTap,
the smartest and most promising thing going."
GameTap is an "all-you-can-play" gaming service
accessible from up to two household computers. The network will launch with some
300 games from 24 publishers, together with hours of original programming.
Subscribers simply download the Turner-developed software from
www.gametap.com .
Subscriptions are $14.95 per month.
"We’ve taken GameTap on the road and hosted a few
thousand gamers through our experiential marketing programs, and now we’re ready
to take GameTap to a mainstream audience," said GameTap General Manager Stuart
Snyder. "GameTap puts an entire library worth of games-both current and classic
-at your finger tips. The game community, and for that matter the Internet
itself, has never seen anything like it."
GameTap will feature outstanding titles from the
early arcades, PCs, and popular video game consoles, including the Sega Genesis
and Dreamcast, Atari 2600, and Intellivision. Original programming will include
magazine, reality, and lifestyle shows, interviews with the who’s who of gaming,
celebrity features, and "game trailers" for the GameTap service.
Publishers represented in the GameTap vault
include Activision, Atari, Capcom(r), Cyan, Codemasters, Eidos Interactive,
Electronic Arts, First Star Software, G-Mode, Intellivision Lives, Ironstone,
Knowledge Adventures, Midway, Namco, SEGA, TAITO, Take-Two, Taurus Media, Team
17, Telegames, 3000AD, Ubisoft and Vivendi Universal Games. Games include such
classics as Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Rampage, and famously addictive titles like
Mr. Driller, Sonic Spinball, and 3-D Ultra Cool Pool.
About GameTap
GameTap delivers hundreds of the greatest
games-on-demand plus original programming via a broadband-connected PC. To
access GameTap, players securely download and install Turner-developed client
software from www.gametap.com
that acts as a gateway to the GameTap vault. Because games reside securely on
the PC, not across a network, they act just as if they were still on the console
or at the arcade. Fast response times, 3D effects, colors, and characters are
all present and accounted for. New games and original programming will be added
to the service each week. GameTap supports navigation and game play using
keyboard and mouse, as well as most USB peripherals.
