GameTap

Overview from its website:

GameTap - Choose your way to play

 

Play all you want for one low monthly fee or purchase your games one at a time. However you like to play, GameTap is your source for broadband gaming entertainment.

 

Unlimited Play

 

Subscribe for a low monthly fee and get unlimited access to hundreds of great games. You won’t find any knock-offs here; all of our games are the complete originals and our plugin makes playing them seamless. From Pong to today’s hits, it’s a gamer’s buffet, where you can eat all you want. And it’s easy to get started!

 

Download to Own

 

Purchase and download the games to own from our online retail digital store. Don’t want to wait in lines? You can purchase and download your games…then play without leaving your chair. Check out our retail catalog now!

 

Our History

 

GameTap launched in 2005 and was hailed as the first-of-its-kind broadband entertainment network, delivering games and video through a unique 3D desktop client. The client application, revolutionary for its time, was written in C++ using a custom 3D engine developed in house. Nominated for a technical Emmy (Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of “On Demand” Technology Over the Public (open) Internet) in 2006, GameTap won the Horizon Interactive Award, Best in Category: Video Games in 2007.

 

As time went on and browser technology become more powerful, the GameTap client morphed into a smart, silent browser plugin, offering the same emulation and game play technology in a lean, easy-to-install package. Many games now play directly in the browser.