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Click here ritual.com/SSFF20 to get 20% off your first month with Ritual. Thanks Ritual for partnering on this video* | Game Room, aka that time Microsoft tried to sell us $620 worth of Atari, Intellivision, and Konami Arcade games on the Xbox 360.
Huge thanks to @JamesNintendoNerd!! Nicest angry nerd in the biz!
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Derek takes a look at the forgotten retro failure that is the Xbox 360 Game Room. We discuss game mechanics, design, and the impact it had on the industry. If you're a gamer of any kind, then you need to check out this video! We discuss the history, design, and impact of the Xbox 360 Game Room. If you're a fan of console emulators, then you'll love how badly Microsoft botched this piece of video game history. Nothing stops the game room quick look! In this video, we look at the game's development history and talk about why it failed.
In this video, I take a look at Microsoft's failed attempt to enter the retro console market with Game Room on the Xbox 360. No, their console app didn't beat the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console or even Playstation 3's Play Station Home, but it did have some cool features. I examine their Krome Studios developed virtual arcade service, which offered Atari games, Intellevision games, Konami arcade games and other classics on the Xbox 360. Overall, it's an interesting video that covers a little-known part of Microsoft's history.
0:00 - Hey I'm Derek, It's Me Derek!
2:10 - Ritual Vitamins
3:51 - "An Everything Emulator"
6:19 - Krome Studios
8:37 - the POWER of Xbox Live
10:49 - Xbox 360 Launch!
12:27 - The end of nice things to say about Game Room
14:15 - Atari, Intellivision, and Konami
17:04 - Microsoft's Biggest Mistake
18:43 - Freemium Mobile and Retro Games
20:08 - Gamepass Predecessor?
22:30 - ...and that was Microsoft Game Room
24:21 - Patreon, Shelf Talk, + Stay Powerful!
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@StopSkeletonsFromFighting
@StopSkeletonsFromFighting Год назад
Click here ritual.com/SSFF20 to get 20% off your first month with Ritual. Thanks Ritual for partnering on this video! | Game Room, aka that time Microsoft tried to sell us $620 worth of Atari, Intellivision, and Konami Arcade games on the Xbox 360.
@steelplasma256
@steelplasma256 Год назад
Oh no..... Derek don't support Vitamin companies. The vitamin and mineral business is the highest grossing pharmaceutical industry. They are all scams.
@TheOneTrueBeard
@TheOneTrueBeard Год назад
Xbox also had the “watch party” feature when watching Netflix where your avatars hung out in a movie theater MST3K style. You could even pull up a reaction wheel where you could choose little emotes that your avatar would do (cheer, cry, act scared, throw popcorn, etc)
@StopSkeletonsFromFighting
@StopSkeletonsFromFighting Год назад
Netflix watch party is what the metaverse *should* be
@freddogrosso9835
@freddogrosso9835 Год назад
Where was that during the pandemic?
@JamesLawner
@JamesLawner Год назад
@@freddogrosso9835 Prime Video has a feature like that, but without virtual avatars.
@big_ry82
@big_ry82 Год назад
@@StopSkeletonsFromFighting it exists in VR. It's called Bigscreen
@harrifongostudios
@harrifongostudios Год назад
@@StopSkeletonsFromFighting This is literally the best thing about VR. Several applications like this since they won’t do it again on Xbox.
@PeteSkerritt
@PeteSkerritt Год назад
Hi. My name is Pete, and I’m a Game Room fan. (Hi, Pete!) I bought every game pack. I played almost daily. I tried and tried to hit top spots on leaderboards. I loved revisiting Super Basketball, The Main Event, and Blades of Steel. I… chose to ignore the alarm bells as news of trouble with Krome was getting louder. And then… the plug was pulled. I still have access to Game Room (but my X360 recently died a Red Ring Death). I redownloaded it earlier this year, and while the servers were dead… the games still played and were fine. Do I regret spending all that money? No… yes… maybe. But I truthfully enjoyed it while it lasted. Thanks for the memories. :)
@SyxxPunk
@SyxxPunk Год назад
A friend of mine gave me a general concept of how much of a waste buying a game is: Per dollar, I expect one hour of enjoyment. Add up all you spent on Game Room. Did you get your full hour of enjoyment pet dollar spent? Did you get more enjoyment? It's not a waste then. Being happy should never be considered a waste.
@rudeskalamander
@rudeskalamander Год назад
Thnks fr th mmrs
@GoldMineArcade
@GoldMineArcade 11 месяцев назад
Hey quick question I use to have a 360 a long time ago and I also loved game room and bought everything they released. I haven't had an Xbox since 2013. I was wondering if the game room and the games are still available on the new Xbox. You said your 360 died and you got a new one. What model Xbox did you get and we're you able to redownload everything fine?
@PinchedCake6
@PinchedCake6 9 месяцев назад
@@GoldMineArcadeit was a 360 probably the S or E
@danielthomas7193
@danielthomas7193 Год назад
Grace telling Derek "NO!" to obscure 360 controllers is true couples goals.
@charlezard5579
@charlezard5579 Год назад
But doom!
@refan4321
@refan4321 Год назад
I have those Scene It controllers somewhere. If I can find them, Uncle Derek may just get his wish lol
@kimikothetanuki314
@kimikothetanuki314 Год назад
@@refan4321 omg yes! Doom Scene It
@reilorenzo
@reilorenzo Год назад
Produce Grace is the sister. We don't not encourage incest in this country...
@kimikothetanuki314
@kimikothetanuki314 Год назад
@@reilorenzo you sure? In one of the videos Derek says he bought Grace a Hello Kitty GBA and said it was like the “best BF gift”. I don’t remember the exact vid.
@nodeSVN
@nodeSVN Год назад
Jeff tricking Ryan into checking out the latest Game Room releases during their Quick Looks was always hilarious.
@AshleyWilliamsN7
@AshleyWilliamsN7 Год назад
That's my fondest memory of Game Room. Listening to Ryan suffer while Jeff played awful games like Intellivision Checkers.
@CoreySchon
@CoreySchon Год назад
J: "This week we're gonna be checking out Bioshock 2: Minerva's Den..." R: "Really? Oh cool." J: "Nah, I totally tricked you." *moves cursor to Game Room* R: "Oh, god DAMMIT!"
@Fuuntag
@Fuuntag Год назад
Honestly after thinking about it far too much; I am kind of glad game-room was a total failure that landed ass backwards. The Giantbomb content this produced was priceless.
@steve43ful
@steve43ful Год назад
NOTHING STOPS THE GAME ROOM QUICK LOOK
@Fuuntag
@Fuuntag Год назад
Unfortunately life does, Ryan is T-posing in the giant GameRoom in the Sky now. Our heaven, maybe his hell. RIP RTD.
@RotundCanine
@RotundCanine Год назад
I remember Game Room randomly from time to time, always felt like it would've been a better thing if it was just an interactive library for your XBLA titles.
@G_Gr00v3
@G_Gr00v3 Год назад
I was thinking the same thing!
@LV99Shimafran
@LV99Shimafran Год назад
Glad I'm not the only person getting nostalgic flashbacks to the quick looks of the Game Room. Lots of good memories there, it's definitely some of Jeff and Ryan's best stuff from that era in particular. Good times!
@LucaHibbardCurto
@LucaHibbardCurto Год назад
Nothing. I repeat, nothing stops the Game Room quick look
@Pendarr
@Pendarr Год назад
I immediately thought of the video where Ryan thinks they’re going to cover some new DLC for a game and then Jeff just opens Game Room instead and Ryan calls him an asshole 😂
@Doritomurderer
@Doritomurderer Год назад
Nothing stops the game room quick look…….
@Fuuntag
@Fuuntag Год назад
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HSZNELa52iU.html - The 5 stages of Giant Bomb Game Room Grief. God Ryan *hated* Game Room by the end of it. Some amazing fodder for Jeff & Ryan. 👏🏻
@Fuuntag
@Fuuntag Год назад
@@Pendarr when I’m feeling like a pick-me-up the RU-vid clip of this never fails. Perfect 5 minute skit-like length.
@GigaMan91
@GigaMan91 Год назад
I just noticed in the middle of the video that he has a red-ringed 360 just chilling on his shelf as a decoration. Derek, you crazy! The good kind! And then he shows it off at the end of the video!
@MADPoltergeist
@MADPoltergeist Год назад
I was looking for this comment. I noticed the red rings of doom right before the ad break. Am I the only one who got some serious second hand sweaty palms when I noticed it?
@RUOK2000
@RUOK2000 Год назад
Oh man I spent ACTUAL time in this thing, it was like an arcade meta verse! Thanks Uncle Derrick
@ajvark
@ajvark Год назад
wanted to see if anyone mentioned metaverse stuff yet and yeah this is what the "metaverse" feels like to me, and i don't mean that in a good way.
@Entropic_Alloy
@Entropic_Alloy Год назад
Always tuned in to the Gameroom quick looks by Giant bomb, just to see their descent into madness.
@jesuszamora6949
@jesuszamora6949 Год назад
It was Giant Bomb at its apex. Amazing how cool that site was, and sad how it fell.
@LucaHibbardCurto
@LucaHibbardCurto Год назад
NOTHING STOPS THE GAME ROOM QUICK LOOK
@EmotionalHobocore
@EmotionalHobocore Год назад
@@LucaHibbardCurto I miss it...
@AntiPseudo
@AntiPseudo Год назад
Holy shit, this was SO under the radar that it wasn't until a few minutes into the video that I remembered that I was working at Krome while this was being made! My only memory of it was walking past a single other programmer that was doing some work on the input manager, and that's it. I also had a couple of sets of those Scene It! controllers, but I forgot they were a work thing and threw them out years ago, sorry Derek!
@StopSkeletonsFromFighting
@StopSkeletonsFromFighting Год назад
Wow, that's amazing to hear but not surprising! Any idea when that might've been? Maybe that was later when Game Room was slowly being snuffed out?
@AntiPseudo
@AntiPseudo Год назад
@@StopSkeletonsFromFighting Nah, was definitely earlier! Krome was going through 3 rounds of layoffs at the time, and I got let go on the second round, and that must've been... late 2008 early 2009? So it must've still been reasonably early in development.
@CaptainConfuzion
@CaptainConfuzion Год назад
The RRoD 360 in the background is a great touch.
@Frijolero18
@Frijolero18 Год назад
Also gotta love the Stadia there too
@Vanfernal
@Vanfernal Год назад
This felt like a great idea that was horribly executed. It would be amazing if someone did something like this this in VR.
@admiralfrosty3495
@admiralfrosty3495 Год назад
New Retro Arcade Neon is pretty close, but it's pretty buggy.
@Freak80MC
@Freak80MC Год назад
This reminds me of the idea of using VR for virtual theaters. You could basically completely replace the theater experience through VR, though obviously the greedy companies wouldn't let that happen...
@IONLYKNOWMOVESTHATKILLPEOPLE
@@Freak80MC >thousands of physical theatres get shutdown >Bunch of empty large ass buildings everywhere >Bunch of people without jobs Hm
@GODCONVOYPRIME
@GODCONVOYPRIME Год назад
@@IONLYKNOWMOVESTHATKILLPEOPLE I know, right?
@blunderingfool
@blunderingfool Год назад
EmuVr is close.
@SuperTheFurry
@SuperTheFurry Год назад
I'm still impressed how Krome managed to keep from actually folding all the way, they're still alive and (sorta) kickin today.
@JallenMeodia
@JallenMeodia Год назад
I remember downloading the free app, booting it up, and going "oh, everything is going to cost money". And then never booted it up again. I think you got three basic games as an example at launch or maybe it was just the demo thing you mentioned.
@BugsyFoga
@BugsyFoga Год назад
Seems like yet another fascinating Xbox experiment that didn’t go so well .
@DP12321
@DP12321 Год назад
Wish their digital only consoles fared the same way.
@Abel-Alvarez
@Abel-Alvarez Год назад
@@DP12321 especially the Xbox one S All Digital 😏🎯
@Fuuntag
@Fuuntag Год назад
Striking a t-pose all the way to my heart Game Room ❤️. Also this created some of the best Giant Bomb Ryan & Jeff quick looks. God, Ryan got so genuinely angry at GR. 😂
@Fuuntag
@Fuuntag Год назад
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HSZNELa52iU.html - The 5 stages of Giant Bomb Game Room Grief.
@N64Gamer77
@N64Gamer77 Год назад
Derek, have you covered the Silent Scope light gun for the original Xbox yet? Might be worth a future episode if not.
@GeekCritique
@GeekCritique Год назад
I knew a guy who, no joke, bought EVERY SINGLE GAME on this thing. I never understood it. Thanks for the awesome video!
@badassmotha2k
@badassmotha2k Год назад
I loved Game Room. The mascots were awesome. The little flower pot that would fall, shatter, and repair itself was so cool. The challenges (now unfortunately disabled with the server shutdown) added replay value to games I would normally play for a couple minutes at a time.
@PrinceMallow
@PrinceMallow Год назад
Man, I remember this and 1 vs. 100 and the Netflix watch parties with your avatars. The 360 was a wild time.
@wraithcadmus
@wraithcadmus Год назад
The difficulty of retrofitting online is the game expects the input to be right there physically connected with wires, every 16ms, so you either have to lag or rewrite the entire game.
@davidmcgill1000
@davidmcgill1000 Год назад
Which is normally handled by the game being emulated on all connected machines with data synced.
@wraithcadmus
@wraithcadmus Год назад
@@davidmcgill1000 Which is how XBand did it, at a cost of 3-4 frames of lag. Of course you were directly dialled into the other player's console.
@jesuszamora6949
@jesuszamora6949 Год назад
Game Room gave us some of the BEST Giant Bomb Quick Look content.
@craigjanssen371
@craigjanssen371 Год назад
I still vividly remember Jeff tricking Ryan into doing another Game Room Quick Look
@jesuszamora6949
@jesuszamora6949 Год назад
@@craigjanssen371 Oh that was hilarious, mostly because of Ryan. GB may have been Jeff's idea, Ryan was the soul of the place.
@MtrCtyKid
@MtrCtyKid Год назад
You can really hear Jeff and the gang go from such optimism and excitement to total disgust in just the matter of a few weeks. Its a treasure.
@jesuszamora6949
@jesuszamora6949 Год назад
@@MtrCtyKid Yeah. It's amazing how fast the wheels fell off, and seeing it happen in real time was a treasure.
@Fuuntag
@Fuuntag Год назад
R:”Oh, [pregnant pause]Jeff we can’t play this anymore.” [silence] J:”[in a slightly bemused curious tone] Why?” R:”Cause this is terrible”.
@reilorenzo
@reilorenzo Год назад
I've been a huge fan of Uncle Derek for quite some time now. He feels like someone that I would love to chat with about life over a beer lol
@redphienix
@redphienix Год назад
Venetian blinds, GOTY. Man, I remember when Game Room came out I genuinely got excited as heck! Teen me was just getting into my retro game obsession and I thought Game Room was going to be the SICKEST way to connect that interest with my modern 360 gaming rig and then it just... never released anything I was willing to pay for.
@CDRaff
@CDRaff Год назад
That Scene-It game and it's sequels(2 or 3 of them IIRC) were the life blood of my early marriage. My (now ex) wife and I used to play them so much that we had all the questions memorized. After we got bored of these we started picking up the DVD versions of the games(and subsequently memorizing those). We also tried the "Buzz" series on Playstation, but it was never as fun.
@cattysplat
@cattysplat Год назад
There is something fun about actually getting better at these games, similar to how playing normal games gets you better at them. We would always share a moment of recognition as a family playing the old quiz games like Trivial Pursuit when everyone knew the answer from so many plays. An endless trivia game that just pushes unlimited knowledge from the internet just seems kind of bland.
@user-vi4xy1jw7e
@user-vi4xy1jw7e Год назад
I remember this. Even though I was not in the target demographic (I was 18), I still thought this was a cool idea. Didn't know we missed out on a Dreamcast emulator though. Would've loved that so much more.
@perryheun3047
@perryheun3047 Год назад
The XB360 quietly red-ringing in the background is *chef's kiss.* Nice touch!
@AndrewPowerSM
@AndrewPowerSM Год назад
The episode where Jeff has told Ryan they're doing a Quick Look of Arkham Asylum or something, and then just scrolls over and opens Game Room. Chef kiss. Thanks for making this video and proving all those hours of them playing Jackal were worthy historical preservation.
@Maniac4Bricks
@Maniac4Bricks Год назад
Now that's something I didn't know in the span of using my Xbox 360! Also liked the Red Ring Xbox 360 in the background, nice touch. Can't believe it happened to fix itself too!
@jackdavis4657
@jackdavis4657 Год назад
I know these comments are fairly generic, but whenever life is feeling a bit much and I need to feel better I always binge SSFF. Thank you Team for being a truly informative, inspiring, and positive channel.
@cutieincosplay
@cutieincosplay Год назад
Thanks for giving us so much info on the obscure side of gaming. Thank you happy video game nerd 💙
@Gojiro7
@Gojiro7 Год назад
he can call himself Uncle Derick all he wants (I think thats a creepy name to use) but to me he will always be the HVGN :D the man who brought obscure good games to the forefront. That said im glad he's found more big time success with SSFF
@EasyTargetLP
@EasyTargetLP Год назад
I remember Game Room! My experience of it was booting it up, realizing "oh, I actually have to pay for these games?" and then deleting it off my system. We were absolutely snubbed from getting a Dreamcast emulator.
@Deliveredmean42
@Deliveredmean42 Год назад
That we did...
@somebonehead
@somebonehead Год назад
I just got the 10 free achievements and deleted it off my console.
@1982markjm
@1982markjm Год назад
Yeah I watch the Game Room Quick Look series every year as well! Love Jeff's insight on gaming during that time and his personal anecdotes.
@mikesweet9991
@mikesweet9991 Год назад
Yo I work in a retro game store in AZ and see those Kinect adapters all the time, I'll check to see if we have any tomorrow. Would be happy to send you one free of charge so you don't have to spend "way too much money" on one ^^
@RPGtourguide
@RPGtourguide Год назад
Not me typing I don’t even remember this as Derek says “nobody even remembers this”. 😅 Seems like an idea with a lot of potential, but just didn’t go far enough with it. I think having a virtual arcade where I can meet up with my online buddies and play games together would be a blast. Also, I like the shelf talk ending, cool segment!
@Willyman362
@Willyman362 Год назад
Another awesome video on a failed venture. This is literally one of my top favorite RU-vid shows. Post Mortem!
@AntediluvianInternetEntity
@AntediluvianInternetEntity Год назад
Well now I'm going to go watch a bunch of old Giant Bomb videos. Thanks Uncle Derek!
@LolaliciousSmiley
@LolaliciousSmiley Год назад
I will watch all the Game Room quick looks again. I just love rewatching old quick looks. They are so comfy!
@Sheepy007
@Sheepy007 Год назад
5:55 Hey, it’s Lophatjello
@franzpattison
@franzpattison Год назад
"Derek makes a fart noise" haha I love when he does a literal script reading and just roll with it
@ther0n1nnamed47
@ther0n1nnamed47 Год назад
Man I was watching Gerstmann's coverage of Gameroom, it was super entertaining ^-^ and makes me glad they kept all of it on their youtube (now watching it again)
@Eftaisio
@Eftaisio Год назад
Awesome video as always! Also the Custom Robo background music was a great choice.
@bland9876
@bland9876 Год назад
I just randomly remembered about those RU-vid videos that GameStop would play on their TV's all the time.
@Marin22427
@Marin22427 Год назад
The game room tour was awesome! Keep it up you two! ♥️
@MS-ox4fl
@MS-ox4fl Год назад
The red ring on the Xbox blinking in the background, just took this video to the moon. Well done haha
@hideokojimajr
@hideokojimajr Год назад
Loved the video. Loved the giant bomb stuff. I’ve been on a throwback GB kick recently too. Surreal to hear Ryan’s voice again.
@SereneMidnight12
@SereneMidnight12 Год назад
Oh man, I remember this. I also remember grabbing every Konami game I could whenever I got MSP, since those were really fun to play, especially Road Fighter and TwinBee.
@HaydenTheHistorian
@HaydenTheHistorian Год назад
5:48 Love the big poop reference. Great work as always!
@SCMabridged
@SCMabridged Год назад
This was kind of surreal; as someone who was very much in tune with the retro restoration efforts of the era, a big fan of virtual console and at least aware of Sony efforts to make a virtual arcade in PlayStation Home, I'd genuinely never heard of Game Room prior to this video. I could tell you all about Smash TV and Gunstar Heroes being on XBox Live but I can't say I recall ever hearing someone mention this but, hey, with a name as generic as "Game Room" this was just begging to be forgotten.
@marsbitrona5920
@marsbitrona5920 Год назад
Classic games on XBLA were VERY inconsistent in quality and price. Having a nice front end for low price arcade games that you knew worked right was a godsend. I kept playing Game Room until it finally wouldn’t load anymore.
@Level1Sword
@Level1Sword Год назад
The RROD 360 in the background was a nice touch.
@ariesforce1988
@ariesforce1988 Год назад
Aw man, you're hitting me in the feels with that Custom Robo soundtrack playing in the background Uncle Derek. Lol
@EvaFull
@EvaFull Год назад
Nothing better than when you’re sick 😷 and Uncle Derek drops a new video to help distract for a little bit. Now to enjoy the video and my meal 🥘. EDIT ✍️ : 😂 That controller bit with Producer Grace 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@dankpelt
@dankpelt Год назад
Chef's kiss to the three red light 360 in the background for this, haha
@BADC0FFEE
@BADC0FFEE Год назад
more than halfway though the video and I've only now noticed the 360 you have on the shelf with the red ring of death, nice touch
@joonamo1
@joonamo1 Год назад
The XBox with the legendary red ring of DEATH in the background made laugh. Excellent attention to detail!
@Tykoon22
@Tykoon22 Год назад
You should do a video about Giant Bomb, Chronicling the history of what it was to what it has become.
@mzarectah
@mzarectah 2 месяца назад
That video would get the channel demonitised for human rights abuse
@Stealthbat
@Stealthbat Год назад
I absolutely love the XBOX 360 in the background blinking the ominous red ring of death! LOL
@iDarkLinkGraal
@iDarkLinkGraal Год назад
I love your setup, cuz its great peeking behind you and seeing whatcha got on your shelf! Maybe someday I'll have a collection half as honorable as yours, Uncle Derek
@noaag
@noaag Год назад
10:49 Niiiice choice to use the Custom Robo music. Hehe. What a GEM that game is.
@ELEKTROSKANSEN
@ELEKTROSKANSEN Год назад
At first I thought you're doing a video about Classic Game Room HD. Oh my, what an important channel it was back in 2006-10...
@ThatOneDudeWhoPostsStuff
@ThatOneDudeWhoPostsStuff Год назад
This idea sounds really cool as a free app to put games you already own into, and when you said "this should have been a subscription service" I immediately saw this concept working with GamePass. Rather than it being a seperate app that you buy games for, it could be an extension of GamePass or the Xbox that Microsoft can monetise by charging for room decorations or even integrating achievements, rewarding the player with room decorations for achieving certain things. Adding a photo mode to take pictures of your Game Room or even have a button in Game Room that automatically makes a video of your Game Room that you can easily share to social media so other people can see what you've made and even take inspiration. I think that'd be a cool touch that'd help the word of mouth aspect.
@DP12321
@DP12321 Год назад
1:01 LOL at the red ring system in the background.
@CZALEO
@CZALEO 8 месяцев назад
I owned the #1 score on the leaderboards for a few games in The Game Room. This era of gaming was the beginning of the end. These days they charge you for weapon and outfit skins, online services on top of online services you already own, charge real money for digital currencies in game. And it's only gotten worse, and that trend will sadly continue. $3 dollars for Atari games? Yeah it was a cash grab, but I miss the Game Room. I doubt in time I will have the same sentiment over the present day exploitation taking place daily across all platforms. The Game Room is now just a memory, but I remember it fondly. Nice video man, thanks for making this, I enjoyed it.
@Froggievilleus
@Froggievilleus Год назад
I had forgotten about this until this video. And boy did it come flooding back, especially once you started talking about the pricing model used. I tried the Game Room out and stuck around for maybe 10 minutes and then left and never returned. Why buy games individually and way more that expected prices when I could get a compilation for cheap.
@jakesapir
@jakesapir Год назад
I loved Game Room. I mostly played a lot of Crystal Castles and Red Baron, and I played them a LOT.
@AlociJo
@AlociJo Год назад
Great video! I hear that Custom Robo music!
@mcj88
@mcj88 Год назад
10:48 - I hear that music, reppin' _Custom Robo_ on GameCube! Nice.
@liquiddiflin
@liquiddiflin 9 месяцев назад
thank GOD someone covered this. I had this downloaded on my xbox when I was little and didn't understand any of the atari games LMAO
@Themeparkfish
@Themeparkfish Год назад
maaaaaan I remember this! My family and I really got into it but we never bought a lot of them unfortunately, the curse of being kids without a constant income.Thanks for talking about it and bring back some memories.
@brianlefko4404
@brianlefko4404 Год назад
I’m shocked I’ve never heard of Game Room. Like, not even once, not even tangentially. That Dreamcast emulator bit made me shed a tear, though. Thanks for the video!
@Rdup222
@Rdup222 Год назад
I absolutely loved gameroom for what it was back when I was little, I might've.. spent some of my dads microsoft points on uh, some of the machines but honestly. I remember having such a fun time playing games like Scramble and super cobra. I also loved seeing my brothers friends inside the arcade playing the machines as well, was one of my features in the game!
@alessandrobaggi6129
@alessandrobaggi6129 Год назад
Love the flashing RRoD on the xb360 behind you 😏😂😉👍😎🤟
@robertdanker6193
@robertdanker6193 Год назад
Great video!! Love the 360 with the red ring if death in the background!🤣👍
@TheFartsandCrapsShow
@TheFartsandCrapsShow Год назад
SSFF always has the fascinating tidbits you won't find anywhere else. Excellent work, guys.
@WandererEris
@WandererEris Год назад
"But Doom!" Those priorities are completely understandable.
@cookiechi2555
@cookiechi2555 Год назад
man, i loved Game room as kid and the custom rooms.
@steelcurtain187
@steelcurtain187 Год назад
Definitely forgot about this. Great coverage!
@Many_Sparrows
@Many_Sparrows Год назад
I don’t remember this at all! I do remember Home though, what a rip!
@lucency
@lucency Год назад
6:37 We're definitely getting a video about those controllers in the next six months, aren't we?
@Whaderder
@Whaderder Год назад
Uncle Derek, please don't ever go out for cigs for that long again! :) So happy to hear the intro again!
@glenncase
@glenncase Год назад
One thing I genuinely enjoyed about Game Room was the challenge mode where you would see your leaderboard ranking update in real time. Sadly, that mode went away when the servers went down.
@tarultoyarto
@tarultoyarto Год назад
I've had a theory for a while that game publishers felt burned by the Wii Virtual Console: it sounded like a good deal until they realized how heavily it ate into the market for full-retail-price anthology collections of those old games. And when the Wii U added backwards compatibility for the Virtual Console, that was threatening to be two generations Capcom couldn't release a Mega Man Classic Collection (like the ones they made for the GameCube and Switch).
@safetinspector2
@safetinspector2 Год назад
I love the red ring a-flashin behind you
@BouncekDeLemos
@BouncekDeLemos Год назад
Holy crap, I remember this! I used to see my cousin's avatar walk around randomly in the rooms.
@LanHikariDS
@LanHikariDS Год назад
Jesus, I've been listening to the Custom Robo soundtrack at work all week and then Derek goes and plays in throughout his video, too.
@alejandrogorgal
@alejandrogorgal Год назад
6:40 that made me laugh really hard.
@parkermaltbie8583
@parkermaltbie8583 Год назад
"But Doom!", the phrase spoken before putting doom on something stupid and glorious, like your toaster oven.
@elecboy5126
@elecboy5126 Год назад
concepts that don’t see the success they deserve pull at my heartstrings, and your deep dives do those stories justice
@diongrant9746
@diongrant9746 Год назад
blinking red light 360 in the back was v nice touch
@thecunninlynguist
@thecunninlynguist Год назад
Uncle D's back just in time for Thanksgiving. I am thankful for your content
@hicknopunk
@hicknopunk Год назад
Arcade games were 20 cents here at most places as you could get 5 tokens for a dollar during the bar's happy hours.
@michaelandersson6088
@michaelandersson6088 Год назад
Xbox 360 red ring of death in the background, nice touch :D
@Chmima
@Chmima Год назад
The RRoD in the background was the icing on the cake! Lol
@TheStarlightKing
@TheStarlightKing Год назад
Love the Red Ringed 360 in the background. I still have my first 360 which is also red ringed.
@ogto
@ogto Год назад
Love Ryan Davis. Will never stop missing him. Also, Gerstmann is still a threat.
@pranavarora9976
@pranavarora9976 Год назад
This looks cool af tbh. Hope someone takes a shot at this idea again at some point.
@arlisbloxer05
@arlisbloxer05 Год назад
oh god, game room. this was literally my exposure to the atari 2600, back then I thought this was the coolest thing ever. they honestly should have stuck to the dreamcast emulator idea.
@Countsmegula
@Countsmegula Год назад
I remember this, played the heck out of Buzz Bombers on it!
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