Game Room

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I was sceptical. Scratch that, I thought this was another attempt to bait players into spending money on something they'd never play.

Then I woke up this morning, downloaded the Game Room and two Game Pack's for free, spend only 480MS points on two arcade games (Asteroids, Red Baron... Atari love over here)... and OHMIGOSH. Nooooossstaaaaalgia! I fear my Gamerscore may grind to a hault as I play Asteroids until my eyes bleed. That game took over my life when I was a wee one. Man, this might be my favourite downloadable anything that Microsoft has ever released.

I like the whole arcade part, and the customization, but the games just make me feel like im stuck at work or something, it could just be the ones Im trying though, either way I think I got a good 150G=P

here is a list of free achievments for game room, 80 points.

Show Me! - 5 points

Visit the Showcase Arcade


You will have need to have downloaded Game Pack 001 for this to unlock. When at the main menu, just press X to enter Showcase Arcade, and it will unlock.



My First Theme - 5 points

Place a Theme in your arcade


Enter My Arcade and then just scroll across to a room and press Y. Select any unlocked Theme.



Theme Filler - 20 points

Place 5 unique Themes in your arcade


Do the same as above with four different themes on another four rooms.



My First Decoration - 5 points

Place a Decoration in your arcade


See Room Filler achievement below.



Proptastic - 20 points

Place 5 arcade Decorations in your arcade


See Room Filler achievement below.



Room Filler- 20 points

Fill an entire room


Each room has eight spots to fill. Just enter a room and place an item on each of the eight spots.



The Visitor - 5 points

Visit a Friend’s arcade


At the main menu select Friends. Scroll to a friend who has downloaded the Game Room then press X to visit their arcade.

Im at 60 now for it, Just need to do the theme filler and I'll be done with this 80gs challenge. Then I can delete it.

I know some think these games are not that great, that may be because we have been conditioned for HD gaming, Digital audio, high def etc..........These games bring back so many memories of a better time in gaming. when playing games was simply for fun. Graphics are not well at all, audio stinks, but games pac man, asteroids, defender, gorf, etc.......will never be forgotten. for if it was not for games like that and so many others, we might not have the level of games we have today. I would like to see Jungle Hunt, Pitfall, Pole Position Keystone Kapers Vanguard, and so many others. Game room made me pull out my 2600 games and go ahhhhhhhhh home again. But be grateful there has been no announcement for E.T. from Atari.

I like the concept of the game room, but with the exception of maybe one or two titles, if Microsoft want me to splash my cash on the games they're gonna have to get some more advanced games..
I dunno, maybe that's defeating the object of the games room a bit, but there just weren't any titles that I thought were worth spending the points on.
Maybe they should just let us have the ordinary Live arcade games, in the game room as well?.. now that would be cool.

I think the initial game selection is pretty terrible, with all the classic arcade games out there you would think they would pull out all the stops for a big launch instead of throwing a load of b rate games in there that were never very popular to begin with, Atari is the only company that has a decent selection on there.

The Konami selection is ok.....Road Fighter and Shao-Lin's Road are pretty good.....

It's also wise holding back some of the big guns to keep interest going for a little while longer at least.

They are ok for bringing back memories but I don't think they are particularly good games and definitely not worth paying 240 ms points for, I'd like to see Konami getting Gradius in there. Wonder if they have any plans to get more companies on board? Getting Sega, Taito, Capcom etc in there would start to make things interesting

Activision and Taito are already on board.......wouldn't be surprised if Sega were as well.

Dear Microsoft Marketing Executives,

Game Room would probably be more of a success if you didn't release it broken with 30 of the least interesting games of all time and if you didn't wait until late April to release the second wave of games.

Just saying.

Yours Sincerely,

Karen Matthews

Im lovin the game room, making me remember young patchychris playing his atari 2600 back in the day.

if anybody wants to trade some challenge wins to get the two challenge achievements, drop me a friend request

I've started on what I'm sure will be a slippery slope of frequent micro-payments and bought Battlantis. The funny thing is I'd never played this before, but it's quite good. Sort of like Space Invaders at Helms Deep. I'd still like the option to add normal XBLA games, even if they don't have the challenges or rewind options; I just love the atmosphere in the Game Room itself.

Hot off the heels of Xbox LIVE Arcade Block Party and launch of capstone title “Game Room,” Xbox LIVE delivers seven more original arcade and console classics to add to your retro arcade starting April 28. From “Pitfall!” (Activision) to “Night Stalker” (Mattel Electronics), next week’s line-up marks the start of a steady stream of arcade hits releasing every Wednesday, exclusively for “Game Room” on Xbox LIVE. Check out the titles below and invite your friends to your growing line-up.

· Super Breakout (Atari)
· Pitfall! (Activision)
· Megamania (Activision)
· Night Stalker (Mattel Electronics)
· Rack ‘Em Up (Konami)
· Realsports Volleyball (Atari)
· Basketball (Atari)

New games will release every Wednesday alongside Xbox LIVE Arcade titles, making Xbox LIVE your one-stop-shop for digitally distributed games.

Pitfall!!!

oh the memories, I keep playing these classic games and my kids are looking at me as if to say "wtf are u playing"

They need to get Caddilacs and Dinosaurs in there [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Game pack 4 was released on thursday

Checking it out now

Infuriatingly, the gamepacks now include 2 weeks worth of games, they just keep the rest of them locked out until the following week.....

I couldn't work out what the new games were???

Is there a way to see what the newest ones are each week?

Or do you have to just scroll through the whole list?

These are the games released this week according to the x360a forums.....

Asteroids
Demons to Diamonds
Grand Prix
Shark! Shark!
Space Duel
Stampede
Time Pilot

Also....if you transfer the gamepack to a USB you can do some digging and find out the next weeks games.....

Boxing
Buzz Bombers
Haunted House
Millipede
River Raid
Spider Fighter
Strategy X

Although I'm pretty sure Buzz Bombers is on there this week, so I don't know how accurate this is.

Pack 5 is now out, not that anyone probably cares anymore

The 5 new games are as follows:

Frog Bog – Intellivision
Missile Command – Arcade
Mr. Kabuki – Arcade
Skiing – Atari 2600
Video Pinball – Atari 2600

Really rolling out the quality titles now then...