There's no Sunset Riders.
It's Wednesday and today was supposed to be the day where they finally released a good game.
Fuck you Game Room.

" @GlenTennis: you think that's a bigger insult then charging $3 for Venetian Blinds? "

" @Sin4profit said:

" @GlenTennis: you think that's a bigger insult then charging $3 for Venetian Blinds? "

Yes, because it's the established norm that they are going to release shitty games. They promised Sunset Riders. It was even in the pack that everyone had downloaded onto their Xbox, and now it's not there. "

" @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all... 
 

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.

"

source: http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=2701 
 
"
As the name implies the Venetian Blinds demo isn't a game, but a demo that simulates a pair of Venetian blinds! The joystick can be used to raise and lower the blinds by pushing up or down. When the blinds are raised a nicely done sunset is visible out the window.

The story behind the Venetian Blind demo is rather interesting. As most people know, Activision was founded by several ex-Atari employees who had left due to Atari's policies on programmer recognition (or the lack thereof). One of these employees was Bob Whitehead, creator of the "Venetian Blinds" technique, which was first used in Atari's Video Chess to display eight objects in a row instead of the normal six. Even though Activision had never used the Venetian Blinds technique in any of their games, that didn't stop Atari from threatening to sue Activision for "stealing" the technique along with other various proprietary information.

Since Activision knew that they hadn't stolen anything from Atari, they decided to play a little joke on Atari. According to David Crane, when the Atari's lawyers questioned them about the "stolen" Venetian Blinds technique David showed them this demo and said "Is this what you guys are referring to?". Apparently Atari wasn’t in a laughing mood, and they went through with the lawsuit. In the end Atari ended up losing the case and Activision went on to become the most successful of the 2600 third party companies.

Although Activision never made a game out of this demo it didn't go completely to waste. The sunset was later used in the background of Barnstorming. 
"
 
It's now a $3 troll

I think Krome or whoever is running this shitshow is purposefully out to make Jeff crazy.

Don't the technically have til midnight? Also, maybe they're taking the week off? I dunno, it just seems premature.

" source: http://www.atariage.com/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=2701 
 
"
As the name implies the Venetian Blinds demo isn't a game, but a demo that simulates a pair of Venetian blinds! The joystick can be used to raise and lower the blinds by pushing up or down. When the blinds are raised a nicely done sunset is visible out the window.

The story behind the Venetian Blind demo is rather interesting. As most people know, Activision was founded by several ex-Atari employees who had left due to Atari's policies on programmer recognition (or the lack thereof). One of these employees was Bob Whitehead, creator of the "Venetian Blinds" technique, which was first used in Atari's Video Chess to display eight objects in a row instead of the normal six. Even though Activision had never used the Venetian Blinds technique in any of their games, that didn't stop Atari from threatening to sue Activision for "stealing" the technique along with other various proprietary information.

Since Activision knew that they hadn't stolen anything from Atari, they decided to play a little joke on Atari. According to David Crane, when the Atari's lawyers questioned them about the "stolen" Venetian Blinds technique David showed them this demo and said "Is this what you guys are referring to?". Apparently Atari wasn’t in a laughing mood, and they went through with the lawsuit. In the end Atari ended up losing the case and Activision went on to become the most successful of the 2600 third party companies.

Although Activision never made a game out of this demo it didn't go completely to waste. The sunset was later used in the background of Barnstorming.  "  It's now a $3 troll "

" Don't the technically have til midnight? Also, maybe they're taking the week off? I dunno, it just seems premature. "

" @Sin4profit said:

" @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all... 
 

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.

"

Yeah but you don't have to buy it. "

If they release Sunset Riders for 800 MSP on XBLA then they can go fuck themselves, because I ain't buying that sheeyt.

" @GlenTennis said:

" @Sin4profit said:

" @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all... 
 

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.

"

Yeah but you don't have to buy it. "

Jeff does, though. "

Sunset Riders is cake. 
Sunset Riders is the spoon.

Wait, Venetian Blinds is an actual game? I have to beat this, at some point.

Sometimes, I get the feeling that Game Room was really nothing more than an elaborate trolling set up by Microsoft.

" Wait, Venetian Blinds is an actual game? I have to beat this, at some point. "

Ba-ha-ha
Game room forever

Why did you guys bring this topic back to life. It just makes me sad.

" @GlenTennis: Venetian Blinds is not a shitty game...it's literally not a game at all... 
 

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

You open the blinds, there's a window with a view of the sunset..."game"over...$3.

"

If Sunset Riders was released, it wouldn't be in the game room.

Does anyone know what ever happened to Sunset Riders? Why did they decide to pull it from pack 12? You would think Krome would have done a Game Room post mortem at GDC or something because of how in went down in flames....