Bleem may be a name many gamers recognise as the emulation software which took on Sony and won. Now, Piko Interactive, a retro gaming and media preservation company, has launched a Kickstarter campaign, reviving Bleem as a Steam-like platform that lets you play classic games via a web browser. So, let’s go over this platform.
So How Does Bleem Work?:
So how does Bleem work, and how do you access the “Games-On-Demand”? So the “Games-On-Demand” part of Bleem.Net will be a yearly subscription (although some free content will be available) that will allow you to stream a library of games via your web browser. “Games-On-Demand” will run local emulators on your device but stream the game to your web browser using a cloud cache; this will lower the input latency of these games when compared to platforms like Antstream Arcade. Bleem will also feature a catalogue of video-on-demand content, including many cartoons from the 80s and 90s that Piko owns, as well as comic books, a merch store and a digital game store in which indie devs can publish their own games.
This is part of a greater vision to turn the Bleem platform into a one-stop shop for classic media from the 1980s up to the 2000s. The current plan for Bleem is to offer a digital platform to purchase hundreds of retro games. Still, there is a yearly subscription, which will give subscribers the ability to play “Games-On-Demand”, watch video-on-demand and read many retro and indie comics. This is all part of the overall vision for Piko Interactive to preserve classic entertainment that many bigger companies refuse to. If you want to back the Bleem.Net Kickstarter campaign, you can find the link to the campaign here.
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