Quick Look: Game Room for 07/28/10

The talk about rapping and stuff comes from a stream Ryan did from his ustream account. It was basically Ryan rapping and singing various songs (folk versions of rap songs to start with), while Vinny played the guitar. Turns out, they are both pretty good. I tuned in a bit late, so i don't know how it started, but Ryan was holding a glass of wine, so i believe alcohol was involved. 
 
Of course, I can't prove anything.
 
EDIT: Cause Ryan apparently didn't archive it. (It was this one, ominously called Folk Rap 
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ryan-davis-tonight#utm_campaign=unknown&utm_source=2181613&utm_medium=social)

I used to love Frostbite so much.
O_O

Rap responsibly...
Koala Tea

that racing game kinda makes me want to play star tropics...

" Jeff should be given is own personal Game Room patch that adds more floors for arcade machines. "

" Wheres Ryan? I mean I don't care who I get when it comes to Quick Looks. In fact Jeff and Vinny are my favourite team but I thought it was Jeff and Ryan for games room? "

Wow...Starcraft 2 sounds sweet!

Here's a bit of fun: let's all imagine how much of a douchey loser you have to be to use a turbo controller on an old arcade game and sit there for however long it takes to glitch the game into giving you a high score.
 
EDIT: The beeping sound from asteroids is the exact same as my second UPS. I instinctively looked away from the screen towards my other desk every time it happened to check if my alarm clock still had power. Weird.

Gameroom is Jeff and one of the three

That jail break high-score-er is a douche 

I love Jeff and Game Room videos. They're like the new a feature.

Game Room quick looks are starting to look like mini-podcasts. That's awesome.

I remember playing Decathlon back in the day. I loved it and thought it was really cool that it actually required endurance and was hard work to play. Even as a kid, I thought that was cool.  Definitely going to buy this.
 
I also played a TON of Asteroids for the 2600, but I don't remember it having colored asteroids. I guess I'm remembering wrong? The music and sound effects are definitely the same though. 

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU... . . .. .JAILBREAK!
Buying now. Oh man, shirtless Batman in a barrel is still awesome!  SHIRTLESS-BARREL BATMAN.
Also you should report that 1500 meters to Girl.

Awesome! 2600 Asteroids is the first game I flipped the score. Love that game to this day.

" Here's a bit of fun: let's all imagine how much of a douchey loser you have to be to use a turbo controller on an old arcade game and sit there for however long it takes to glitch the game into giving you a high score. "

Oh my god, Decathlon is crazy. I want it.

the decathalon was hilarious.  =D

lol girl noise

What an endurance run...

"That beep in asteroids made me look at the phone every single time. "

Acoustic versions of rap songs can be really good if done right.
 

" @teekomeeko said:

" Here's a bit of fun: let's all imagine how much of a douchey loser you have to be to use a turbo controller on an old arcade game and sit there for however long it takes to glitch the game into giving you a high score. "

Dude, thats how ppl got high scores, by gliching the game. I have personaly never seen anyone get a high score on an arcade machine without gliching or "cheating" in someway. Also, I'm pretty sure he didn't buy a turbo controller just to play Jail Break. And who is the bigger loser? The guy who cheats his way to the top score with ease or the guy that spends a long ass time learning the ins and outs of the game just to get a high score. "

Woah, the second that Asteroids came up...mad flashbacks.

Jeff knows what's up.  Rapping and guitar!  WE HAVE PROOF!

Gameroom - Starcraft II edition.  Awesome.

Asteroids, all right, I love that movie!

" I remember playing Decathlon back in the day. I loved it and thought it was really cool that it actually required endurance and was hard work to play. Even as a kid, I thought that was cool.  Definitely going to buy this.
 
I also played a TON of Asteroids for the 2600, but I don't remember it having colored asteroids. I guess I'm remembering wrong? The music and sound effects are definitely the same though.  "

" Im quite surprised they haven't put out a Yar's Revenge or Zaxxon. I don't know if they put out Q-Bert or Mappy yet either. If not. They should.  I also remember this one game as a kid on the 2600 called Plaque Attack. Played that game for hours. "

2600 Asteroids and Defender are two of the worst arcade conversions ever committed to cartridge.
 
EDIT: Good call with Blue Max, Vinny. And that kid in Jail Break sounds like a peacock.

Man... I wish that Microsoft had killed Game Room instead of 1 vs 100. I may not enjoy these crappy games but at least we are getting some fun QLs.

That beeping sound in Asteroids reminds me of the Dreamcast VMU.

You know Game Room is a failure when the top scorer for Asteroids apparently quit the game out of sheer boredom.

Man, I went Ape-shit when Asteroids came out for Atari 2600. I remember sitting on the subway coming home from school and this Asian kid kept taking it out of his bookbag....gawking in delight. It was all the rage through gradeschool in NYC. He was talking with his friends and he put it down on the seat forgetting about it while his friends were telling the latest joke in Cantonese........the subway "DONG' singled the next stop. He collected his bookbag forgetting the ASTEROIDS BOX?!...HOLY SHIT I thought.....he got up and walked out the door........the door closed...I grabbed the game of life.....I thought about getting off the next stop and backtracking to where he got off..CANAL STREET Chinatown......I did not... Do I feel bad looking back?!?!?!  Sorry kid....I do not.

Game Room Quick Looks are my favorite.

my name is mentioned at 24:50 ... be jealous.

" my name is mentioned at 24:50 ... be jealous. "

" You know Asteroids is a failure when the top scorer for Asteroids apparently quits the game out of sheer boredom. "

" @Kajaah117 said:

" You know Asteroids is a failure when the top scorer for Asteroids apparently quits the game out of sheer boredom. "

Fixed. "

8:31
 
The background noise sounds like Jaws is about to attack.

OMG.  Why is MS releasing all these lame 2600/Intellivision ports.  MAME makes this look like amateur hour.  I can't believe anyone (besides reviewers like Jeff) are buying this stuff.

it's all about nostalgia...plain simple....bring us back to the days when we used our imaginations to fill in the pixels