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The Game Room is Actually..Fun? |
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 Remember this thing? Remember how everyone speculated it would be an old school arcade setup for our XBLA games and how wrong we were? Well it seems this thing has fallen into obscurity. Well this morning I was sick and looking for something to kill time with since I wasn't going to class. I decided to open this thing back up and see what has changed. They are always releasing game packs for it which bring new arcade games to check out. Recently, Konami has dropped some classic games in the mix to try out. I must admit, most of them are quite fun! I'm a little too young for the Intellivison and Atari games (except the well known ones like Pong and Pitfall) so those never really appealed to me. When the Game Room first came out that was really all you had to choose from. Konami has released some games that are closer to modern games that us 80's babies grew up playing. My first arcade purchase happened today when I bought Super Basketball.  It really doesn't get more basic than this and that is why I love it so much! Essentially you have two buttons, A will dribble (yes you have to dribble to get anywhere) and X will shoot. Hold it down to put more arc on the shot. In a day and age where FPS games rule, it's nice to go back to basics for a change. It's a really simple, pick up and play game that I'm glad I purchased. I also bought City Bomber which is a cool Spy Hunter clone from Konami where you actually play as the villain! Pretty cool concept to be the one being chased by police for a change. In short, if you have some free time or are looking to spend 400+ points to make the 2400 deal that Microsoft is offering, you could do worse than picking up a few Game Room games. The games are getting more modern and they offer EASY achievements if you want to boost your score up. Actually sitting there trying to survive in a game for a certain amount of time or get a certain score for a medal truly did take me back to what made arcades so fun in the first place. When the clock is ticking and you are trying to get the high school, you really do feel the pressure. Keep an eye on the Game Room. As the games get more modern, it might just become XBLA's best kept secret. |
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metaly
- 10-13-2010, 02:06 AM
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I had no idea they were still adding games to this, maybe because I haven't seen it mentioned in months. The games in the initial lineup felt pricey, but you're right, it would be cool to see some more recent arcade games show up for sale. (Not like super recent stuff, just moving away from Lunar Lander and Pitfall.)
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kburns10
- 10-13-2010, 02:16 AM
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Exactly! On a whim of being bored, I decided to check it out again. I guess despite the negative reviews they are still chugging out games for it. As they start to release more modern games its worth checking out again periodically.
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FriskyTanuki
- 10-13-2010, 04:47 AM
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The service is dying, just in case you didn't know. They've yet to add any new publishers/platforms since the launch and have dropped from the initial seven games a week to four games and sometimes they even put out just two games for a week, so don't be too eager to drop money into a dying service.
They're not getting to any modern systems. |
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kburns10
- 10-13-2010, 05:25 AM
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That's a shame. I'm glad to see the games getting a bit more modern, but I guess I won't hold my breath for it to get any better from this point on. I'll claim what achievements I can and be prepared to move on. Thanks for the heads up though Frisky.
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Wolfkin
- 10-13-2010, 10:53 AM
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from what i heard GameROom was always fun the issue was never that it's suffers from whatever stop-block ails the Wii's Virtual Console. Both of these services are just dribbling out games now. VC is awesome but Nintendo refuses to release games. Same with GameRoom.
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hostyl1
- 10-13-2010, 11:09 AM
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I've been following all of the GameRoom releases as Jeff Gerstmann from giantbomb buys *every* game released and they do a weekly 'Quick Look' when the new games come out. The vast majority of the games are utter trash. But every now and then you get a River Raid calibur game.
From what I've seen, the Intellivison games are not good in GameRoom as the unwieldly 10 button Intellivison controller doesnt match up well to the 360 stick. And aside from some 2600 nostalgia, I dont really care to play anyof the games, especially for 3 bucks a pop. |
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crunchewy
- 10-13-2010, 11:41 AM
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Game Room is pretty terrible. Having to download game packs, perhaps just to get one game you want is pretty damn dumb, but on top of that all they could secure was Atari console, Intellivision, etc, initially? They were just setting themselves up for failure right from the start. Wii VC is 1000x better even though it doesn't get many releases each week (often none). At least they've got more recent consoles and even arcade games and a pretty darn good library of games now.
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davidb69
- 10-13-2010, 12:34 PM
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There are some games that I go back and play on gameroom. River Raid, pitfall, gyruss just to show my kids what I used to play. Those games are fun. I wish they would release the game called OmniPro basketball that was on C64 and PC. You could edit players on your team and make a whole league out of it with fictional names. I used to play with my friend and mail a disk back and forth and had epic games with him when we played face to face. I swear I would play that game over and over and if they somehow had that game and added online play, we'd have the best basketball game ever. Heck even make Earl Weaver Baseball 2 back in the old days, I'd love to play that again. And if you can remember Wayne Gretsky Hockey that you could buy separetly with Hockey League Simulator and create a whole hockey league with more detail then anything that has been made today. Those days of gaming was epic and would love to play again
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kburns10
- 10-13-2010, 01:29 PM
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I didn't know there were quick looks available for the games coming out, so I'll have to check that out. I remember when I did have the Wii the Virtual Console was really cool. Too bad to hear it's not doing so well now. Maybe they'll go back to the drawing board because it really is a neat idea, just done badly.
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AvidWriter
- 10-13-2010, 09:27 PM
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You could have played it for free. Aren't all these older games public domain now?
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wesdw369
- 10-13-2010, 09:46 PM
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ive enjoyed the service for adventure alone, had that game as a kid and my parents gave our atari away. if only they would release the atari superman game and id be set
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