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CLUSTER ARCADE-CLASSIC-GAMES · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-06-25

classic arcade netplay platforms

This cluster consists of online platforms for playing classic arcade and fighting games over the internet, typically bundling emulators with netplay and matchmaking, and often positioning as open alternatives to existing services. The dated history before the index is too thin to read a shape from—only two dated entries exist, so the cluster predates the index or its members are largely undated. On traction, OpenFight and OpenCade lead with 22 stars each, while Fightcade shows 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2024: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 1
JUN 2024SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 indie · 2 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01go-link12★20 daysliveindieMultiplayer arcade game streaming platform that lets friends play classic games together from a browser, with the host's computer running the game.
  2. 02OpenFight29★1 mo—open sourceOnline platform that provides netplay matchmaking for classic arcade fighting games as an open alternative to existing services.
  3. 03OpenCade29★1 mo—Online arcade netplay platform for playing classic arcade games with friends over the internet.
  4. 04my_arcade0★1 molivehand-codedhobbyTwo-player multiplayer web game collection of classic arcade games where each player has a separate screen.
  5. 05Fightcade0★4 moliveopen sourceAn online matchmaking platform bundled with emulators that lets players compete in classic arcade and fighting games with low-latency netplay.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.