Posted by SkullcrusherMountain - August 12, 2010 at 2:10 PM

Thanks, Jeff, for saying that there are no arcade releases at the start of the video. That way I don't have to watch the whole thing, 'cause I could quite honestly give a fuck about 2600 or Intellivision games.

Edited by Levio - August 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM

Did people play these games even when they were new? That hockey game looks like complete garbage now, but even back when there were ZERO alternatives, I cannot imagine playing that game for any amount of time.

Posted by Bummey - August 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM

Did Jeff just beat Brad's record for quickest death in a Quick Look?

Posted by Redbullet685 - August 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM

I bet if Jeff didn't buy every game, Game Room would be dead.

Posted by Yummylee - August 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM

Yay! More shit.

Posted by anarchcorp - August 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM

Am I the only one that noticed that ,at the point of this quick look, Giantbombing had the top two spots on the leaderboard for Dolphin?

Posted by kerikxi - August 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM

So when do we get to start the betting pool on when Game Room flat out dies?

If they couldn't justify keeping 1vs100 running, I doubt this will last much longer.

Posted by VisariLoyalist - August 12, 2010 at 3:58 PM

back to the future

Edited by YukoAsho - August 12, 2010 at 4:33 PM

@kerikxi: I think the only reason this is still around is that it costs so little money to implement, and can make a decent bit of scratch in return. 1v100 was a pretty monumental effort and MS didn't get nearly enough return for it.

Posted by Gabriel - August 12, 2010 at 4:55 PM

SO shitty.

Posted by DBoy - August 12, 2010 at 5:28 PM

I used to play INtellivision's Ice Hockey and to through the Stanley Cup Finals with my friends. Man, such good memories.

Posted by kerikxi - August 12, 2010 at 6:09 PM

@YukoAsho: I agree, but I still wonder how long it'll scratch out any profit at all. They still have to pay to license all this content.

Posted by navyboy - August 12, 2010 at 6:18 PM

can't believe I actually got 1000 gamerscore in this

Posted by CornBREDX - August 12, 2010 at 7:12 PM

Thats a real shame. Only reason I was looking forward to gameroom was the arcade games, maybe the OCCASIONAL old school console game but not so much.

On that point, I'm surprised they released Dolphin. I remember always thinking when Ecco came out how that seemed like it was some kind of successor to Dolphin.

Eh, anyway, another disappointing week

Posted by YukoAsho - August 12, 2010 at 9:06 PM

@kerikxi: I can't imagine it's costing MS all that much to get these games from the companies involved.

The bigger concern is how much longer they'll have new content coming in. The 2600 and Intellivision are being bled dry, as evidenced by the ports of arcade games already in Game Room. At some point, MS is going to run out of games from just these companies in just the pre-crash Era. We're going to have to move a little further along, or Game Room's existence won't even be enough to justify quick looks.

Posted by Bluethunder35 - August 12, 2010 at 9:37 PM

I'd be jumping for joy if I could buy Imagic's Intellivision games in the Game Room. Activision has the rights to all of Imagic's stuff so I'd love to play INTV's versions of Demon Attack and Atlantis as well as the exclusive Imagic games on that platform.

Posted by TobyD81 - August 12, 2010 at 9:39 PM

That was painful...

Posted by megalowho - August 12, 2010 at 10:05 PM

Is it just me, or was Dolphin hypnotic and kind of cool?

Posted by KamikazeCaterpillar - August 12, 2010 at 10:17 PM

My favorite part of the week is only twelve minutes long this week.

Posted by fastkilr - August 12, 2010 at 10:43 PM

@nmarchan said:

" Dolphin music is reminiscent of Ecco the Dolphin. Also, question: Which is in worse shape right now - Game Room or Virtual Console? VC has more awesome games already on it, but they rarely put anything on the service any more - 1 or 2 games a month, TOPS. Game Room is still releasing games, but they're all terrible. "

Game Room's definitely in worse shape, in my opinion. I'd much rather have the couple good emulations per month of more recent games than sloppy emulations of even older games.

Posted by Hyper_Bunny_Meow - August 12, 2010 at 11:07 PM

@megalowho said:

"Is it just me, or was Dolphin hypnotic and kind of cool? "

I was kinda getting into it too as there was a deffinite Ecco feel to it.

Posted by ThePhilatron - August 12, 2010 at 11:58 PM

lol @ hockey

Posted by AdMordem - August 13, 2010 at 1:26 AM

@fastkilr said:

Game Room's definitely in worse shape, in my opinion. I'd much rather have the couple good emulations per month of more recent games than sloppy emulations of even older games. "

If a rep from MS was to grab one piece of feedback off the interwebs, please let this be it.

Posted by garion333 - August 13, 2010 at 6:08 AM

Wow.

Posted by sublime90 - August 13, 2010 at 6:34 AM

i have no intentions of even booting up game room until they get some classic stuff like sega saturn mr bones and dreamcast games.

Posted by MeatSim - August 13, 2010 at 7:58 AM

More bad games for Game Room this week, this is great news!

Posted by Teaspoon83 - August 13, 2010 at 8:34 AM

Man, although I played a lot more Nintendo than Atari... this is my childhood and I it is crazy to think I spent hours playing these games.

Edited by fwylo - August 13, 2010 at 11:53 AM

Holy fuck these are bad.

Who in the hell at Microsoft is the guy letting this go on. He needs to die. Now.

Posted by redmac - August 13, 2010 at 1:41 PM

It is funny that GiantBomb ignores Playstation HOME content that comes every week...wierd..

Posted by LordXavierBritish - August 13, 2010 at 4:40 PM

@redmac said:

" It is funny that GiantBomb ignores Playstation HOME content that comes every week...wierd.. "

That's because everyone ignores Playstation HOME period.

Posted by GoodKn1ght - August 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM

@nmarchan said:

" Dolphin music is reminiscent of Ecco the Dolphin. Also, question: Which is in worse shape right now - Game Room or Virtual Console? VC has more awesome games already on it, but they rarely put anything on the service any more - 1 or 2 games a month, TOPS. Game Room is still releasing games, but they're all terrible. "

yeah but what is there left to put on VC?

Posted by me3639 - August 13, 2010 at 10:54 PM

As someone who played a lot of these titles on their original consoles I have never, or will ever have any desire to replay.

Posted by king0fprussia - August 13, 2010 at 11:12 PM

Dolphin is oddly hypnotic. Maybe it's the echoey sound design.

Edited by nmarchan - August 14, 2010 at 12:02 AM

@GoodKn1ght said:

" @nmarchan said:
" Dolphin music is reminiscent of Ecco the Dolphin. Also, question: Which is in worse shape right now - Game Room or Virtual Console? VC has more awesome games already on it, but they rarely put anything on the service any more - 1 or 2 games a month, TOPS. Game Room is still releasing games, but they're all terrible. "
yeah but what is there left to put on VC? "

Eathbound. Yoshi's Island. Star Fox. Any number of Square RPGs. And that's just on the Super Nintendo. And don't forget that they recently started the Virtual Console Arcade section, and there are only like six games in there. Yeah there's a great lineup, but there's a lot they can still put on there.

I'm thinking now that Virtual Console is no longer profitable for some reason. But it can't cost that much to put old stuff up there, can it? I mean, they have to pay somebody to make sure everything's emulated right, to make their virtual manuals, and then to get the games ESRB rated, but surely that can't cost THAT much, right?

Posted by logson - August 14, 2010 at 12:21 AM

So I'm a little drunk, but there were two take-aways from this quick look:
Dolphin's sound design reminded me of Rez, in that every action, power-up, or what have you had made a sound on beat.
Also, Brad and Jeff being painfully bored playing Hockey was one of the funniest quick look moments since Ryan belittling Vinny while screwing up in Wipeout.

Posted by saladshooter4ever - August 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM

@logson: @logson said:

" So I'm a little drunk, but there were two take-aways from this quick look: Dolphin's sound design reminded me of Rez, in that every action, power-up, or what have you had made a sound on beat. Also, Brad and Jeff being painfully bored playing Hockey was one of the funniest quick look moments since Ryan belittling Vinny while screwing up in Wipeout. "

Yeah, the music in Dolphin has a really weird, almost interactive sound about it. Is it the first example of a dynamic soundtrack?