As of the week ending May 21, 2011, I noticed that Game Room no longer is listed on XBLA for download. This might have happened earlier but I just noticed it this week and I've checked on it periodically.
Game Room
Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Mar 24, 2010
A downloadable portal for official emulation of retro video games for the Xbox 360 and PC, featuring offerings from the Atari 2600 and Intellivision as well as early arcade games by Atari and Konami.
Game Room has been removed from XBLA.
Xbox.com shows it as still available. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Game-Room/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d530901
It's legitimately sad to me how hard this crashed and burned. It was a good idea! Why couldn't it work?!
@JJWeatherman said:Yep, that too. :/It's legitimately sad to me how hard this crashed and burned. It was a good idea! Why couldn't it work?!Also, the hilariously poor quality of numerous ports.Oh yeah, pricing.
Hello, games that have no business being played on an Xbox 360 controller!
heh I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. Everybody on my friends list basically had the Game Room title, and then not one of us bought an actual game for it haha
Woulda been better if my arcade games showed up there. Turtles, Contra, SF2: Hyper Fighting, etc. People would actually want to play those. Fuck Centipede or whatever other shitty old games there were.
Are you people blind? It's still there. I am looking at it right now.I don't know what you're talking about.
It's still on xbox.com, so you can still "purchase" the game and all the game packs right now if you're worried. I did that yesterday. I don't know if the actual games are still available for purchase though.
@JJWeatherman said:Also the fact that most people who have an interest in old school games like these are most likely going to emulate them anyway :P.It's legitimately sad to me how hard this crashed and burned. It was a good idea! Why couldn't it work?!Also, the hilariously poor quality of numerous ports.Hello, games that have no business being played on an Xbox 360 controller!Oh yeah, pricing.
I used it once. Saw that Jungler wasn't available in my region and said fuck this shit.They even had region locking in Game Room? That's messed up.
Uh. I'm looking at it as I'm writing this, and it's available for download. Also, all the 13 game packs are marked as "Free". Are those activated in Game Room for a fee, or did they actually just make everything for it free?
Also I have no idea why some can't see it on XBLA anymore. Maybe a certain region can't get it anymore? I'm in Sweden.
EDIT: Since everything was "Free" I'm downloading it right now. I realize you need to activate the full game for a fee, but still. Really wonder why some can't see it anymore.
Sometimes crap can't be found, but can still be DLed. I can't find Double Dragon on the marketplace anywhere anymore, but if I delete it and then go to my download history I can still get it back.
This is what I'm talking about.@xyzygy said:
Are you people blind? It's still there. I am looking at it right now.I don't know what you're talking about.
Uh. I'm looking at it as I'm writing this, and it's available for download. Also, all the 13 game packs are marked as "Free". Are those activated in Game Room for a fee, or did they actually just make everything for it free?I'm in Canada, I can see it too.
Also I have no idea why some can't see it on XBLA anymore. Maybe a certain region can't get it anymore? I'm in Sweden.
EDIT: Since everything was "Free" I'm downloading it right now. I realize you need to activate the full game for a fee, but still. Really wonder why some can't see it anymore.
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