Plex is best known as a media streaming platform for live TV and music, as well as content from an attached hard drive or host computer through the Plex server. Now the company behind the app is looking to attract more users with a subscription game streaming service that offers iconic old-school Atari games.
Plex said Tuesday that its Plex Arcade will provide access to retro classics like Centipede, Missile Command and Lunar Lander, and will allow users to play and save their own ROMs in the library. According to Plex, its games can be played on Android (phone and TV), iOS, tvOS, and the Chrome web browser.
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Plex Arcade's debuts as technology giants and media companies have experimented more extensively with subscription services. Google has made great strides in gaming, launching Stadia in 2019, a service that allows users to stream games from the cloud instead of playing them on a console.
Apple followed suit later that year with the launch of Apple Arcade, a game subscription service that allows Apple users to play more than 145 games on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac, and Apple TV devices for $ 5 per month .
As with Apple Arcade, a Plex Arcade subscription costs $ 5 per month after a seven-day free trial. Users with a Plex Pass account pay $ 3 per month. However, unlike Apple Arcade, Plex focuses on the classic games of the past century.
The game server currently only works on Windows and MacOS, as the cloud gaming partner Parsec does not yet offer its libraries on Linux or other platforms.
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