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    I downloaded it and enjoyed the free 5 point achievement I got. I walked around the arcade and didn't see one thing I wanted to spend my 20 tokens on. It's a very cool concept but until they have games I want to play I won't be spending very much time in there.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The 1 2 P View Post
    I downloaded it and enjoyed the free 5 point achievement I got. I walked around the arcade and didn't see one thing I wanted to spend my 20 tokens on. It's a very cool concept but until they have games I want to play I won't be spending very much time in there.
    You can get 80 achievement points in about 5 minutes without really trying and without spending any money.
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    MegaDrive & Octo - thanks for the explanation. That is what I thought, but I wanted to be sure before I screwed myself out of points that I didn't need to spend.

    I might pick up one or two games to give this thing a try.

    Now if only they would add BurgerTime to this....it would then be perfect.
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    I tried it this morning and I thought it fun. I wish it was a full virtual space where you could walk around and look at the games and talk to your friends' Avatars and things. Then there would finally be a decent use for them. Maybe they'll do that in Gameroom 2.0.

    The game selection is a bit limited right now but there are still some classics. The only one I would be likely to actually buy is Scramble. It's nice to see some of this stuff available, though. I try to collect arcade and other game compliations and there were a couple of games I don't have on any of my compilations.

    I wasn't really sure how the tokens worked. I thought you had to spend them to play the games but every game I played in demo play just let me do it for free.

    I wonder if they will really live up to their promise of having 1,000 games in this eventually. There just doesn't seem to be space to fit that many. Right now it's actually kind of funny, some of the little theme arcades have the same games as other themes. I think I even saw one with the same game twice.

    I saw some guy on another board bitching about sound emulation, but I think that's just because of an option in the menu to make it sound like arcade ambiance.

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    Considering that I was paying 400 points for Asteroids/Asteroids Deluxe awhile back, 240 seems acceptable to me. In my mind it's costing me 160 less per game.

    (Before you say 'but you payed only 200 points per game' I'm going to say that I never would have bought both Asteroids games had they been 200 points each, so it's moot IMO)

    Seeing my friend's high scores as banners beside the cabinets is cool. I agree that when an avatar is blocking a machine it's off putting (but again, minor quibble, as I think seeing the Avatars of friends wandering around the arcade is cool).

    I plan in buying some stuff, I just haven't decided what. Adventure is a fave of mine, but without any high score competition to engage in with friends I'm not sure I'd buy it.

    I'm curious if anybody will ever pay the 40 points for one play or not. You can play any game the first time for free, but if you go back to play a second time you've got to cough up 40 points if you don't want to pay for the full game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nature Boy View Post

    I'm curious if anybody will ever pay the 40 points for one play or not. You can play any game the first time for free, but if you go back to play a second time you've got to cough up 40 points if you don't want to pay for the full game.

    I can't see ever paying the 40 points. If I want to play a game so badly after the demo trial that I'm willing to pay $0.50 for a game, I would just as soon pay $3 to own it.

    I bought Scramble and Tempest and like them both. Not much else for me in the first 2 packs. The racing game (Road Warrior?) is fun, but not enough to purchase. I'm a big Super Cobra fan, but the emulation felt way off. And I can't see paying $3 for any Atari or INTV title in the game room. Arcade all the way!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nature Boy View Post
    I'm curious if anybody will ever pay the 40 points for one play or not. You can play any game the first time for free, but if you go back to play a second time you've got to cough up 40 points if you don't want to pay for the full game.
    Well...if you're cheap and want achievement points, you could always play the game on the PC or on its native platform, and then pay the 40 points to get all of the medals in one go instead of paying the full price for the game. I've thought about doing that on Super Cobra, since my first run on the game was good enough for 5th on the leaderboard but it was done on a Demo playthrough. 1st time I've played Super Cobra, though I'm a big Scramble fan myself.



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    Quote Originally Posted by DKTheArcadeRat View Post
    You can get 80 achievement points in about 5 minutes without really trying and without spending any money.
    I should have figured that out when someone on my friends list had exactly 80 achievement points for the Arcade but I just figured she started purchasing stuff. So I went back and now I too have 80 achievement points for it. It will most likely stay at that level for awhile.
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    Am I the only one who gets 'server unavaialble' when I boot it up? I can play and stuff, but I can't see anyone else's arcade or progress.
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    I've been playing the shit out of Battlantis lately. Great game! A nice medieval variation on the Space Invaders theme with good graphics (especially compared to all the pixel work of most of the Atari/Intelevision games). The music is pretty robust too, especially considering the time the game was made. Most of the other games I'd heard of, but that was a blind spot for me and I'm really happy that the Game Room introduced it to me.

    So when you pay 40 for one play, is that like one continue, or just a single sitting? If it were a sitting then that would be worthwhile, because yeah, you could just grind through it until you get the medals you want. Otherwise though, it's buy all the way. I've got three now, Adventure, Yars and the aforementioned Battlantis.
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    Quote Originally Posted by grolt View Post
    So when you pay 40 for one play, is that like one continue, or just a single sitting? If it were a sitting then that would be worthwhile, because yeah, you could just grind through it until you get the medals you want. Otherwise though, it's buy all the way. I've got three now, Adventure, Yars and the aforementioned Battlantis.
    It's just like playing in the arcade. You get one play, until you lose all your lives or reach some kind of "Game Over."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nature Boy View Post
    Am I the only one who gets 'server unavaialble' when I boot it up? I can play and stuff, but I can't see anyone else's arcade or progress.
    I got that message once but it still let me enter the arcade. As for not seeing anyone else's arcade, it may just be that no one on your friends list has downloaded it yet. The first time I tried to view my friends arcade not one person had downloaded it yet. But the next day I finally found one person(who is still the only person on my friends list to have downloaded it) who had and I was able to visit her arcade to get that achievement.
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    I haven't played it yet, but thanks for letting me know it's out!

    I am put off by the price, but only because I feel I've paid many times over already, either in the arcade or on consoles to play a lot of the games. Yet, at the same time, it would be cool to have them all in the same interface and playable from my couch... though I'm sure I could probably do the same thing on my Dreamcast or my modified original Xbox.
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    For those that could not see/read all the games...
    Here is the current list:

    Adventure
    Armor Battle
    Asteroids Deluxe
    Astrosmash
    Centipede
    Battlantis
    Crystal Castles
    Gravitar
    Lunar Lander
    Red Baron
    Combat
    Finalizer
    Football
    Tempest
    Jungler
    Millipede
    Outlaw
    Road Fighter
    Realsports Tennis
    Sea Battle
    Scramble
    Skiing, Mountain Madness/Super Pro
    Space Armada
    Space Hawk
    Shao-lin's Road (Kicker)
    Star Raiders
    Super Cobra
    Sub Hunt
    Tutankham
    Yar's Revenge

    And the old Activision games are coming next.
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    Spreadsheet detailing the medals for each game:
    http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...xdmlodUE&hl=en



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    I have 625/1000 in the game, level 7 and 31 medals. Not sure what other games that are out now I want.
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    Does anybody know how often new games are being added?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nature Boy View Post
    Does anybody know how often new games are being added?
    I've heard it's every Thursday there are 7 new games or something like that. This is from back when it was announced, where Activision games are supposedly coming rather soon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nature Boy View Post
    Does anybody know how often new games are being added?
    I read that the first batch is coming in April, then it will be a weekly deal.
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