Welcome to the Retro Players Club
The roots of gaming are where the true players are — and this is where they meet. RetroPlayers.Club exists to make reliving retro easy, fun, and community-driven.
RetroPlayers.Club is a club for people who grew up with these games and never really put them down. Right now the shelves hold 1,171 games across 14 consoles — arcade cabinets, 8- and 16-bit home machines, the disc era, and handhelds. You open a page and the game starts. That is the whole idea.
No hunting down TV connections. No unearthing cartridges from the attic. No searching for a compatible TV that still works today. All you have to do is make sure you have a version of the original game, and you can play it here.
Games run inside your browser using open-source emulation — the same emulator cores the preservation community has maintained for decades (EmulatorJS and RetroArch cores, plus dedicated engines for particular machines). Nothing installs, nothing needs a plug-in, and your progress rides along with your account rather than a memory card in a drawer.
A few of the heavier machines — PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, Saturn — are more than a browser can run honestly at full speed, so those play through our free desktop player instead. Their pages show real footage of the game so you can see exactly what you are getting before you download anything. We would rather tell you that than serve you a slideshow and call it emulation.
USB and Bluetooth pads work out of the box — plug one in and it is detected. Keyboard play is fully mapped too, and members can rebind any key on any game and have it stick. The club runs on the idea that these games should feel the way you remember them, and for most people that means a pad in your hands.
High scores are tracked per game, worldwide. Top players get their runs shown off on the home page with the gameplay videos they uploaded themselves — not marketing footage, their actual play. Members compete internationally for recognition and for real cash prizes in our scored contests, and can play online versus against other members.
Anyone can play free. Membership adds the advanced functions: online versus, deeper customisation, save states everywhere, high-score contests with prizes — and no ads at all. That last one is a promise about conduct as much as layout: no pop-ups, no pop-unders, no redirects to somewhere seedy. If you have ever tried to play a browser game and spent the first minute closing windows, you know exactly what we are refusing to do.
We are players first and we take the rights of the people who made these games seriously. The club is built around you having a version of the original game. If you hold rights to something published here and want it removed, our DMCA and takedown policy explains exactly how to reach us and what happens next — and we act on valid notices rather than arguing with them. What we do with your own data is set out plainly in the privacy policy.