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It's cool and all but the games seem overpriced. Think I'll just stick to free emulators.

Thanks for your take

Seriously, I can understand 2 bucks or so per game but 4 or 5? :nono:

Yea I wasnt excited for this at all... then last night I downloaded it and of course it was down due to problems. Finally this morning I got to go in the thing and sadly I was disapointed with it...

Not worth the money at all

Yeah, it's a little underwheliming. It would have been nice to actually move our Avatar to the cabinet we want to play/look at.
The games should be much much cheaper. I think £1 is plenty, considering what these games are.
Buying things for your Arcade costs real money. Buying stuff for my Avatar with real money was already pushing it but to buy something that basically just adds a small model to a menu screen is going a little far.

Game Room is basically a way to try and sell us games so old that no one would buy them if they were put on XBLA. I'm hoping, eventually, it'll have a better selection with things like Sunset Riders or Super Sprint. I do love the sounds of the Game Room, though. The "Arcade" Sounds take me back.

Nice idea but way too pricey for such "classics". Cant see myself using this at much.

I purchased a mascot and centipede to see what it was like.
If it was a bit cheaper and people started to use it, it'd probably be good.

Crystal Castle is actually pretty good. I might buy it the next time I have 240 to spare. Then again, I could just play it for free on the Atari website.

I was going to issue a challenge but I can't until I buy the game I want to challenge people at.

:heart: Crystal Castle :heart:

That was the one I bought just because I loved it when I was younger and to see what all the game room fuss is about, but the 360 controller is not suitable for controlling it. Dunno if its like that with other games though.

Seemed like an okay idea, haven't tried it yet.

I imagine it will become much more robust later, and the prices will drop with a XBL deal at various points throughout the year.

Someone was digging around the PC version and found some files that might hint at what's coming up.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kotaku

Someone picked apart the resource file for the Microsoft Game Room - the PC version of the Xbox Game Room that launched this week - and found a curious Star Wars image that doesn't seem to fit anything.

Blogger TechKnight looked in the Game Room's director and noticed a sizable file. Figuring it held clues, he went looking for .png headers, then wrote a script to pull them out. What he found can be seen
here in its entirety.

Activision's presence in this has been known; apparently some of its games were supposed to go into Gamepack 2 (they didn't). It looks like Microsoft has already planned out four more, though.

What is interesting is the use of the Clone Trooper picture. TechKnight speculates it might be to announce Atari's vector-graphics Star Wars game whenever that arrives, which would be massive. It also very well could be a stray image that means nothing.

There are also some 20 extra or unused achievement/badge icons, including a curious one on the top row, fourth from right, depicting Pac-Man, Air Man and Quick Man. Either way, I've found the launch catalog to be a smidge, well, skimpy, so it's good to have an idea of what else is on the way.

Source.

I was under the impression we could visit friends arcades. Any idea how we do that?

Just go to their name and there's a visit friends arcade option I believe.