Quick Look: Game Room

Tempest, bitches!
 
Although I had a hell of time adjusting to the 360 controller.

I don't know about you guys, but the first thing I went to was Lunar Lander.

I must say that the first game I played when I downloaded Game Room was Jungler. Thanks Jeff...

This has shown me I would much rather listen to Crystal Castles than play Crystal Castles.

" This has shown me I would much rather listen to Crystal Castles than play Crystal Castles. "

Jungler is the shit. Day One purchase, dudes.

Yars' Revenge challenge was awesome.  
 "Dude."

That Finalizer game looked pretty sweet.
 
But I don't know that this thing is for me, since I was born way past the Atari days.

The PC version doesn't support your 360's avatar and you can't create a new one (just select from a few pre-defined). So I'm a trill black dude on PC and a bald white dude on 360.
 
Also the game rooms are different for each platform, but the achievements are linked. So I have no clue which one of mine a friend would end up visiting. Anybody else test this out?

I was pretty pessimistic about Game Room but after watching this, it shows what Home could have been.

Cant wait to try this.

Best thing I found for games you're unfamiliar with is to look at the leaderboards at the top score, cleared up a lot of issues not knowing all the tricks of Jungler (or just check out the replay to see how it ends). 
 
Edit: think that the best thing for game room is sticking to the arcade cabinets & maybe early PC games like M.U.L.E. or Archon as well as skipping past most of the atari/intellivision stuff (in regards to buying it).

HOME copy

NINETY BUCKS

I remember this time when my friend hacked an arcade machine somehow and made it take no quarters, so we sat there for like 2 hours playing for free.  It was a cabinet that was like Namco classics or something.

And for the life of me, I don't remember the game "Red Baron" at all.

I may get Yars' Revenge.  That Finalizer looked pretty great, though, too...

You guys need to JUNGLE at higher levels. Pro levels.

Yayyy! A whole bunch of old shitty games!

A lot of this stuff looks cool, like the replays and challenges, but my least favorite thing about game room is the games.

I think this is one of the better things MS has done extra game stuff wise.

Ha ha, all Jungler room.  Nice!

Crystal Castles wtf....

did anyone who has never seen jungler expect it to look like that?
i have never seen it and i expected it to include ... you know... a jungle

Looks really awesome. Definitely interested in checking this out.

wow this is friggan amazing. i was really dissapointed by jungler after all that pimping from the podcast =[[[

are leaderboards shared between xbox and pc?

Yeah...I'll pass.

Game room: more reason to waste your money and horrible games for unreasonable prices!

AKA Jungler: The Movie.

That tree is NASTY!

About Tokens; tokens only let you demo the game for 10 mins like demoing the game for the first time. It's a bummer that you can't play ranked games with tokens and just spend MS points on more tokens rather then whatever the asking price for one buy in is...and i don't even know if that buy in is a ranked game or not, be damned if i'm gonna test it.

Shit sucks. It's got Microsofts special brand of confusing cash grabbing all over it. Also, does anyone really want to play these games for more than a minute or two? I mean seriously? 
 
I'd rather play ball-in-a-cup.

Jungler is fun, Crystal Castles looks incredibly difficult to control, and Tempest just looks hard.

" did anyone who has never seen jungler expect it to look like that? i have never seen it and i expected it to include ... you know... a jungle "

"No! No.. thats friend's world."

I got almost 100 points out of this and I didn't even buy a single game. But I did play Jungler and then stopped.

This is the first and only game I bought in Game Room....sad...sort of...

" I would probably be all over this if it was 200 points. 400 seems a bit much. "

Kinda crappy setup if ya ask me...and the game selection is not worth the cash...

Tank Pong is still such pure fun for me. Love it.
 
Oh, and I totally remembered the Crystal Castles warp zone jump points, too. But do you think I can remember my mother's birthday? No chance.

Yeah Franz Lanzinger, sounds like a dick!

finalizer and yar's revenge look pretty playable lol.

"My all Jungler room!" 
I have one of those too!

How could you not show Red Barron!? That's the best one! DAY ONE BITCHES!

Oh... the JUNGLER! Now I get it.

Man, I wish this had the game sounds. The sounds for tempest are AWESOME. 

Man, Yar's Revenge, take me back! I love playing that game back on my Atari. Tempting to get this but no! I swore off games till I finish what I got, last thing I need is cheap games.

In retrospect, Game Room would have benefited greatly from a beta. Hopefully they fix it soon so I can buy some Atari 2600 games.