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Free social retro gaming platform Piepacker now in open beta

June 15, 2021 by Andrew Newton

Piepacker is a brand-new multiplayer social gaming platform currently in open beta that allows gamers to play fully licensed retro games online, even with friends completely free.  There’s a wealth of games already on the platform from a variety of retro systems and from a number of publishers.

Piepacker started on kickstarter with a small-ish target of $75,000, which it reached in just 20 hours.  The campaign went on to raise a whopping $220,000 proving that the retro scene is extremely popular.

The games available to play are from a number of different platforms, including NES, SNES, Saturn, Mega Drive, NeoGeo and PlayStation with partnerships with the likes of Codemasters, Team 17 and Interplay, plus indie developers like Bitmap Bureau or Morphcat.

There’s 60 games currently available to play with more to come.  The current catalogue includes:

  • 40 Winks
  • Addiction Pinball
  • Alligator Hunt
  • Alter Ego
  • Barkley Shut up and Jam 2
  • Blender Bros
  • Böbl
  • Brave Battle Saga
  • Brutal Sports Football (Beastball)
  • Descent Maximum
  • Dragon View
  • Earthworm Jim
  • Earthworm Jim 2
  • Evolution Soccer
  • Football Madness
  • FoxKids.com Micro Maniacs Racing
  • Gekido
  • Glover
  • Gluf
  • Haunted Halloween 86
  • Invasion from Beyond
  • Iron Commando
  • Legend
  • Legend (Reboot)
  • Loaded
  • Maniac Square
  • Micro Mages
  • Misplaced
  • Motor Mash
  • Nebs n Debs
  • Old Tower
  • Power Football,
  • O.D.T. – Escape or Die Trying.
  • Psycho Pinball
  • Radical Rex
  • Rage of the Dragons
  • Rageball
  • Sensible Soccer ’98: European Club Edition
  • Sensible Soccer: European Champions – 92/93 Edition
  • Soccer Kid
  • Spacegulls
  • Star Versus
  • Steel Force
  • Street Racer
  • Summer Challenge
  • Super Bat Puncher
  • Super Paw-N
  • The Gadget Twins
  • The Humans
  • Thunder Hoop 2
  • Top Racer
  • Twin Dragons
  • Ultimate Tennis
  • Water Margin
  • Winter Challenge
  • Worms Blast
  • Worms: World Party
  • X2: No Relief
  • Xeno Crisis
  • Yazzie
  • Zero Tolerance

Visit Piepacker now for some retro entertainment.

 

Originally published June 15, 2021. Updated June 14, 2021.

Filed Under: Andrew Newton, News, Trailers, Video Games Tagged With: Piepacker

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