Gametap to me is NOT a good value. There simply aren't enough games available to make it worth the monthly fee. I pay $10 for Rhapsody Music service, but I get access to 2 million songs, most of them part of full albums. That's value. Gametap has what, 500 games total? Add about 10,000 more games and we'll talk.
I don't understand people's drive to "get legal with emulators" anyway. I pay for Rhapsody because it's usually easier than hunting the album down on P2P, bittorrent, or newsgroups. Most of these older games should be in the public domain anyway, and I don't want to pay some stupid company who bought the rights to the game (Infogrames/"Atari") to use them. If I'm not paying the original programmers, I might as well just download it for free and paypal the programmer a buck or two.
Gametap to me is NOT a good value. There simply aren't enough games available to make it worth the monthly fee. I pay $10 for Rhapsody Music service, but I get access to 2 million songs, most of them part of full albums. That's value. Gametap has what, 500 games total? Add about 10,000 more games and we'll talk.
I don't understand people's drive to "get legal with emulators" anyway. I pay for Rhapsody because it's usually easier than hunting the album down on P2P, bittorrent, or newsgroups. Most of these older games should be in the public domain anyway, and I don't want to pay some stupid company who bought the rights to the game (Infogrames/"Atari") to use them. If I'm not paying the original programmers, I might as well just download it for free and paypal the programmer a buck or two.