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    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.

    Is Game Room officially dead?

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    #1  Edited By LordXavierBritish

    This week "Bundle Pack 001" 
     
    Description: "Contains two cool offers for collectors of Konami Arcade titles!" 
     
    What is this shit?

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    #2  Edited By Skytylz

    2 games?  It's almost dead I give it till the end of the year.

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    #3  Edited By LordXavierBritish
    @Skytylz: It isn't a game pack. 
     
    I don't think there are any games this week. 
     
    I think they are discounting games.
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    #4  Edited By nukesniper

    Things are looking bleak.

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    #5  Edited By Dany

    Well, I don't know how Game Room can continue if they can't get new consoles, arcades and new games. 

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    #6  Edited By Ninjakid7396

    Was it even alive?

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    #7  Edited By kyelb22

    Did anybody actually play it in the first place? I haven't seen anybody on my friends list playing it since the day it came out, and I think they were only doing that because the were curious, or bored.

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    #8  Edited By JJOR64

    If only it had Capcom's support.  Then I would be some what interested in Game Room.

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    #9  Edited By wolf_blitzer85

    I think Jeff's bank account is the only reason Game Room is still alive.

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    #10  Edited By Blkthorne

    Supposedly they will be bundling up the Konami arcade games, at least 20 of them, into packs so that people will be able to find those games easier rather than going through all 10 of the current game packs.  They haven't really clarified what it is exactly though, some think it might mean new arcade/console games will come in separate packs instead instead of all combined in one. 
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    I got Yar's Revenge, all I really want out of it at this point is a Defender port that doesn't suck. 

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    #12  Edited By turbo_toaster

    The prices killed it for me on the first day

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    #13  Edited By SeriouslyNow

    The worst use of a good idea that MS have made in a long time.  It was dead when they decided to release Atari 2600 shovelware.

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    #14  Edited By Raymayne
    @LordXavierBritish said:

    " @Skytylz: It isn't a game pack.  I don't think there are any games this week.  I think they are discounting games. "

    There are games out this week. Radar Lock, Street Racer, and Submarine Commander all for the Atari 2600. Check the facebook page of game room for more sweet info! 
     
    They also posted: 
     

    Game Room  Bundles? we are getting a lot of content up here and therefore we thought it might be a good idea to test out interest in a bundle release. this will be a test, and therefore a bit limited in scope at first. we are going to start with a 5 game pack and a 15 game pack of Konami games. we are working furiously to get this out asap. we will let you know when it goes live..

      
    So there's some life in it yet, apparently....
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    #15  Edited By Gizmo

    I have never used Game Room as it requires a 300mb download. Not worth the bandwidth.

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    #16  Edited By Lukeweizer

    Not as dead as the Showtime channel. Or whatever their plan was for 1 VS. 100.

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    #17  Edited By alwaysbeclothing

    As long as Jeff has to keep putting money into their giant sinkhole machine and pumping out them videos, its alive.  They know they will make their $3 back on every game they crap out at least.

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    #18  Edited By EpicSteve

    How the hell are people supposed to know Game Room exists? It's never on the dashboard. The pricing structure is dumb.

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    #19  Edited By RAGEosaurus

    So does anyone know which 2 games are on offer?

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    #20  Edited By Rodigee

    Shouldn't this post title be "Is game room unofficially dead?" If it was officially dead, Microsoft won't be adding games to it.

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    #21  Edited By citizenkane

    It isn't dead until Jeff stops buying and showing them in Quick Looks.

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    #22  Edited By jasta

    It never really took off =|

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    #23  Edited By Bloodgraiv3

    I hope it is, but at the same time, I don't want it to end cause I love the quicklooks. 
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    The lack of games that contain fun is what did it for me.  Other then Battlantis and River Raid there has been nothing but crap.  If they had maybe more arcade games besides Atari and Konami I would of been happy.  I don't know if it was feasible to get Bally/Midway games but they could of tried to get Sega and Capcom support.  Also how about games from the early 90's.  I would of paid anything for a decent port of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs or Sunset Riders.  

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    #25  Edited By Hailinel
    @Ninjakid7396 said:
    " Was it even alive? "
    I think it was put on life-support after five minutes outside of the womb.
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    #26  Edited By JerichoBlyth

    What the fuck is a game room?

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    #27  Edited By me3639

    Never knew it had a heartbeat. The quicklooks for game room is all that will ever be missed.

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    #29  Edited By JoelTGM

    It's a bummer.  I want them to get all the games on there, so it can be like a sort of museum.  It's a great idea to think that you can easily pull up any old arcade game and play them with modern stat tracking and leaderboards.  They put so many bad games on there though, for $3 a pop, so people aren't really buying or even looking at what's new anymore, and with that kind of result Game Room is just slowing down to a crawl now.

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    #30  Edited By wrathofconn
    @CitizenKane said:
    " It isn't dead until Jeff stops buying and showing them in Quick Looks. "
    He can't buy last week's games until they are actually available for purchase, which they were not the last time I checked. Bad sign.

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