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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.

    Which Game Room launch titles should I get?

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    Kratch

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    #1  Edited By Kratch

    If you could only get four or five Game Room launch titles, what would you suggest?  I haven't really played a lot of games from the 70s or early 80s, but would like to pick up a couple that are fun.  Any suggestions?

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    #2  Edited By Rayfield

    Super Cobra's pretty sweet.
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    #3  Edited By NintenDood

    Centipede is still great =D 
    And oddly enough, non-sarcastically, Jungler is pretty good. 

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    #4  Edited By popcorn

    If you can get around the controls, Crystal Castles is excellent for screaming profanities at your television (it is also actually really fun!). 

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    #5  Edited By MikkaQ

    Super cobra's cool, Lunar Lander always a classic, Tempest is also always fun... and ya can't go wrong with Asteroids for 3$.

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    #6  Edited By Disengage

    Road Fighter is pretty good. River Raid would be but I guess it's not a launch title anymore.

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    #7  Edited By Smullster
    @Kratch:   
     
    I purchased Asteroids, Gravitar, and Centipede.  I really wanted to like Tempest, but the controls were too odd for me.  I was way to used to using the spinner / dial from the old arcade cabinet version.  I think if I purchase just one more title out of the initial releases, I'd either get Lunar Lander or Red Baron.  Both seemed true to the original arcade experience. 
     
    OK, I'm old.  I had an Atari 2600, and an Intellivision.  I don't think I'd spend any money on those offerings seeing as I owned the most of the originals and kind of played them to death. 
     
    How about what you'd like to see in future releases?  For me... Gorf, Tron, Xevious, Joust I and II, and Sinistar.  There was also one called Crystal Castle that I wasted a whole bunch of quarters on that I'd like to see ported. 
     
    -Allan
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    #8  Edited By coaxmetal

    Obviously Jungler

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    #9  Edited By MysteriousBob

    I'm loving Shao-Lin's Road. Never heard of it before but I've got gold medals for the points and survivor.

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    #10  Edited By trace

    I'll second Road Fighter -- that game is surprisingly interesting. Still not sure I'll pick it up, but I enjoyed it so far.
     
    Out of the Intellivision stuff, the only game I can recommend without hesitation is Astrosmash. It's a classic, although once you're any bit decent at it, you're going to end up investing almost an hour into a single game before it ramps up to a level too insane to handle.
     
    The rest of the Intellivision launch titles are either good only in local two-player, hampered with the clunkiness of having to pull up a virtual keypad, just not that good outside of the old game nostalgia (Space Hawk), or missing good leaderboard/medal support (Sub Hunt). A shame, really.

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    #11  Edited By Ashwyn

    For some strange reason i got outlaw for the 2600.
    I don't even like that game.
    But yeah: 
    @MysteriousBob said:

    " I'm loving Shao-Lin's Road. Never heard of it before but I've got gold medals for the points and survivor. "
    This.
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    #12  Edited By JJOR64

    None?  $3 is to much for me unless they release something that I really want.

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    #13  Edited By calidan777

    none. They all suck, I was completely disappointed by what they have to offer so far. Hopefully it gets better.

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    #14  Edited By Driadon

    SUBBBBBBB HUNNNTTTTTTT! 
    Honestly, I ate up a good hour today on that game along.

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    #15  Edited By Sooperspy

    i thought that jungler, crystal castles, lunar lander, and super cobra are pretty cool

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    #16  Edited By elfbot

    shao-lins road rules so hard

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    #17  Edited By Metroid545

    none, over priced i say

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    #18  Edited By alexrubens

    Does anyone have a list of what comes in Game Pack 001 and 002?

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    #19  Edited By thwak

    The only games I really enjoyed out of the launch titles were the konami games. I'd go for most of those since they were all really good and something you normally don't see re-released a billion times like the atari games, and the intellivision games just have emulation issues. Although Astrosmash is still good through the weird intellivision emulation..
     
    But narrowing down the konami titles, the ones I would get would be shao-lin's road, scramble, finalizer, jungler, and battlantis. Scramble's the same game as Super Cobra so those games are really more about which one you prefer, I just prefer scramble.

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    #20  Edited By Egge

    If you're only going to buy one game, make it Tempest. I've never actually played it before but it has aged fantastically well. The gameplay is fast, intuitive and challenging while the pseudo-3D perspective still looks really slick after all these years. On a side note, games like Tempest and Red Baron reminds you of just how eager the early game developers were to add 3D effects to their titles, many years before it was practical (or even possible) from a technological standpoint...

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    #21  Edited By angularbanjo

    Finalizer is my favorite so far, with Shao-Lin's Road and Road Fighter close behind it. Also really enjoying the cabinet display mode.

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    #23  Edited By EvolutionX0

    for me the only one i got at the moment is asteroids,  but I'm considering finalizer
    Addictive, but only one problem. ARROWS OF DEATHHHH!

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    #24  Edited By JammyJesus

    I got myself a bit lunar lander.
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    #25  Edited By Weesh

    Got some JUNGLER of course and Super Cobra and Shao-Lin's Road is pretty awesome too.

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    #26  Edited By MikkaQ

    Okay okay, Red Baron's the shit, as well. 
     
    But yesterday I ended up buying Finalizer, Jungler, Lunar Lander and Tempest. All of which I'll heartily recommend as 3$ well spent. Those are some pretty cool games.

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    #27  Edited By Dustpan

    Astrosmash kicks ass.

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    #28  Edited By BlastProcessing

    Asteroids, Centipede, Crystal Castles, and Jungler.

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    #29  Edited By Origina1Penguin

    We need some reviews, pronto. So far I can say that I do not like Crystal Castles or Super Cobra at all, and Jungler is actually kind of fun.

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    #30  Edited By Chokobo

    Bought BATTLANTIS, SCRAMBLE, and ROAD FIGHTER.
     
    You really need a fight stick or something to really do well at Road Fighter.  A for accelerate and B for shift is just screwed on a regular controller.

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    #31  Edited By Sin4profit
    @Chokobo: You can shift in Road Fighter? no wonder i sucked at it.  Did it not come with any other control layouts in the options? The button controls in game room seem backasswards in Gravitar too.
     
    I bought Gravitar, highly recommended but check my review in the game room forums. It's an especially good game for setting challenges with friends but be warned, not many people seem to be buying it and they can't enter a challenge if they don't own it...madness i say.

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