Welcome to XBLA Game Room

Remember pumping quarters into your favorite video games at the classic Arcade? Nothing would beat the colorfully-decorated cabinets, the smell of popcorn and candy and best of all, the endless hours of competition with friends, trumping the top score, and mastering the machine. Game Room on Xbox LIVE lets you relive the glory days of the classic arcade. Play as your Avatar and enjoy the original sights, sounds, and gameplay that make these retro games come alive on Xbox 360 and Games for Windows LIVE.

March 26 2010

Game Room achievements explained

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Game Room for Xbox LIVE on the Xbox 360 or Games for Windows Live on Windows PC There are a lot of new arcade rooms out there right now! All of them virtual; but still charging credits/tokens. Some users even say that their new High Scores and bragging rights defeat the previous old school records; and that has lead up to some new rivalries on the Xbox 360 and Windows PC! A rivalry that will probably be re-written in the next few days as an hour of shame for one group or another in the retro arcade that is Game Room.

Seemingly it doesn’t matter as much as it did back in the 80’s, as we all own a console now and it just seems right. In fact, it seems that the Intellivision (who are celebrating their 30th Anniversary) and even Atari 2600 are making a comeback thanks to Microsoft and their LIVE service for both the Xbox 360 and Windows PC.

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