Quick Look: Game Room for 06/09/10

yess 
 
had to reply fast... am i the only person to whom the game room games are boring. i may be too young to understand any of it....though

Damn you

ahh

Thought this wouldn't be on. Good stuff.

I love these QL's.

DAWG!

I would be very curious to see the sales numbers on these game room releases. A lot of this old Atari stuff looks and plays like complete garbage. Besides a little bit of nostalgia or the odd game that might hold a special place in your heart from your childhood or whatever, I'm having a very hard time seeing the appeal to anybody. 

the Atari 2600 made a small come back in the late 80s. 
it  had a new form factor, much smaller, so you got to marvel at tech progress. 
 
it was kind of a cool nostalgia trip, cant remember much about it, i think it quickly went back into obscurity as the Master System and the NES were on the scene as well. 
 
guessing thats the time of River Raid 2.

This is by far the worst week so far, next week isn't looking much better either.

Video Hustlin Son!

Thirteenth!

Video Hustler and Associate Video Hustler, hahaha.  Vinny always has the best side comments.

I'm following those avatars who are leaving the room

good question Jeff...who IS buying this. Nostalgia is fine, but damn :/

There are way too many bad 2600 games.

 I really do think old games have more to them then just nostalgia.  Graphics don't really mean that much too me and the simplicity of it all just makes them even better.  I started with the N64 and Game Room is amazing to me, but i honestly don't know how anyone can buy any games from this week in game room for any reason other then nostalgia.  None of them are good at all and weren't that great even when they were first released.  I'm so glad that next week looks to have a couple of interesting games in them again finally.

I am amused how these Game Room quick looks can be used as an easy historical archive for Jeff's excitement about Game Room. At first, he's an early advocate, even a believer. Now, it feels like a joyless duty.

When I was very young kinda like 5 I had an atari 2600 only until like 3 years ago I realized that I had a 2600 cause when I was young I didn't know difference between consoles I also forgot I played games on it all I could remember was a controller with a big red button, 3 years ago when I realized that I had owned a 2600 I struggled to remember this game where you are this guy chasing a thief and I watched this video and saw the keystone capers mascot and said OMG I think that's the game, I went to youtube searched keystone capers found a vid watched a little of it heard the sounds and... NOSTALGIA FILLED MY SOUL.

oh man

Well, I said last week that I thought Game Room was going the way of the dodo. However, I've been looking at Major Nelson's XBLA weekly figures, and Game Room comes in at no. 4 on the top 20 list of full versions purchased. That seems pretty high for what I described as a "colossal failure". Maybe it is doing okay after all. 
 
http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2010/06/08/live-activity-for-week-may-31st.aspx

Game Room seems some what mishandled. I have yet to DL the client, 5 achievement points be damned!

Vinny sounds so disinterested.  Not that that is unwarranted.

This is depressing. 
 
It seems that the biggest problem of Game Room is the library and their respective license holders: most of the major arcade companies (Taito, Namco, Capcom, etc) already have their own retro collections. And the current publishers? Not that many good titles if you think about it. 
 
Also, I could recommend some mahjong games to Vinny, some very "interesting" ones... I'd buy Game Room for that.

Whatever Vinny, I'm a video hustler.

What is this Broken Guy they are talking about?

... would a 360 arcade stick work with game room?

Last week I was speculating that this move from 7 to 5 games a week parallels the Virtual Console's progression from 3 to 2 to 1 game(s) a week.  I was thinking it might have been a fluke for that week, but maybe we're seeing the first step in a downward spiral.
 
[edit] Also, let's note that the blocks you're hitting in Circus Atari are supposed to be balloons.

" What is this Broken Guy they are talking about? "

• Black Widow
• Juno First
• Major Havoc
• Scooter Shooter
• Warlords

• Casino
• Crackpots
• H.E.R.O.
• Kaboom!
• Laser Blast
• Sky Diver
• StarMaster

• Star Strike
• Triple Action
• Utopia

I guess the broken avatar was tied to how Jeff's arcade was set up, he is greatly missed!

These quicklooks are the best thing about game room. I love looking at these old games.

I still love that you guys do this, but I wouldn't blame you if you stopped.

I'm really glad Jeff buys these all because it would suck to own these games. 

OH GOD I LOVE GAME ROOM QUICK LOOKS SO MUCH!! 
 
I hope this train never ends.

Hopefully after e3 neogeo, colecovision & other consoles will pop up as the intellivision is rather meh & needs a replacement.

Still waiting on NARC and Super C!

Completely irrelevant games with absurd prices and low quality emulation!

Just end it now..stop making gameroom games. Your only pumping out crap now. 

Awww, a shout out to Blue Max. You're ace, Vinny.

The most expertly done conclusion to a Quick Look if I do say so myself.

The only reason I still care about Game Room is these videos you guys do. I'd buy some more games if they came out with some that weren't crap, but so far, not much interests me.

Yup I am still not missing that game room. 

" What is this Broken Guy they are talking about? "

Shit games makes for fun quick looks. Not all the time, though.

Sky Jinks had shadows!!!