Quick Look: Game Room for 11/24/10

I actually think the medal box is actually kinda nifty. 
edit: Its games like Pitfall 2 that really make these Quick Looks shine, but maybe thats because I like watching people play a game that they are good at.

" @SuperfluousMoniker said:

" I don't understand how Jeff could memorize Pitfall 2 yet hate Megaman 9.

Pitfall 2 is about the exploration of hundreds of non-linear screens with infinite lives.
 
Mega Man 9 is about getting game overs across 12 linear screens until you get the pixel-memory down and can move onto the next stage, where you repeat the linearity and crazy difficulty once again.
 
They're kinda different.  One is fun and relaxing.  The other is brutal and punishing.
Personally, between the two options, I'd happily take the 'fun' choice! "

Catching up on my QL backlog today. Cool update, and games that don't suck! Yes!
 
Pitfall II looks simply amazing. That's an Atari 2600 game? Fucking incredible.

Game Room is BACK! (too soon?) 
 
Blades of Steel and Pitfall II are pretty awesome - but after playing Trick Trap a few times, I'd say it ranks up there with those two. It's a great Commando type game, with some cool level design. Nice surprise - hope people give it a chance past the first level. 
 
Here's what is apparently inside 12: 
 
 Arcade
Trick Trap 1771 (pretty cool Commando type game with a medieval meets future twist) 
Blades of Steel (yes!!!)
Amidar
Detana Twinbee
Food Fight
MIA: Missing in Action (aka Rush'n Attack 2)
Pooyan
Sunset Riders (4-Player Beat'em up Cowboys)
Twinbee (Big shooter in Japan)

Atari 2600
Pitfall II
Off The Wall
Thwocker
Warlords

Intellivision
Vectrom
Volleyball

I was surprised Jeff understood what an offside meant in hockey

Pitfall II was one of my favorite games when I was a kid. The music definitely sounds a little off in the video, though.

Actually some decent games this week. I used to own Blades of Steel for the NES, had a lot of fun playing it. I actually didn't even know that there was an arcade version. I might get it but the vertical orientation of the screen was a bit disorienting (ha ha) for me.

IS THAT IT :)

Revamping the look of Gameroom won't actually change anything if the games are still crap. At least Trick Trap had good music. Gameroom allows one to rewind in Pitfall II? Braid's influence is even retroactive... The cave part of Pitfall II pretty much defines "platformer". 
 
Jeff should write a Pitfall cartoon page on screened.com

" @PassiveKaerenai: I caught that too! Man, MST3K will never die... :-) "

The evil-sounding music at the beginning of the QL reminds me of the music that plays in the cutscene in TMNT IV when the Technodrome is rising out of the ground.

"Hey Pretty Face! Shoot it!"

Played Pitfall 2 last year at a mates house, awesome game that can still entertain the hell out of you. 

Holy shit...gameroom ..release is..good

Loving the Massive! F! bomb! at 1:36 :D am still grinning.

That's probably the most exciting patch of games for the last 3 months or so.

Trick Trap has an awesome soundtrack! :D

Am I a bad human being for not really liking Pitfall 2? I've only ever played the C64 version, and despite a lot of time with it as a kid, it always seemed like a chore.

The music in Trick Trap is pretty awesome.

Blades of Steel was amazing.

Watch out for snakes!

@CharlesAlanRatliff said:

The music in Trick Trap is pretty awesome.

It was pretty awesome, it's even more awesome when it's not poorly emulated:

I came here because of Bombastica. Ah Game Room... you could've been so good but you were soooo bad

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-game-room-for-120110/2300-3555/

AgentZachMorgan is top of the leaderboard.

Watching these QLs from the beginning, this is easily the most upbeat about Game Room releases they'd been since, what, June? Aside from Jackal this was Game Room's highest point for MONTHS.

See Game Room?

Click Game Room.

It really is...just that simple.

Also sad how long the Sunset Riders delusion persisted...