Game Room for the 360 - Pack 12 Released

[Barry the Nomad]

In an episode of "The Brak Show", they had new neighbors and the wife was named "Rhonda, from the seventh level of Yar". She lived in a metal box and had yellow eyes.



The more you (didn't need to) know!

[Emmett The Crab]

I just checked into game room and Barry beat my high score on Centipede!  I also picked up breakout and Pitfall.  I used to spend hours on Pitfall when I was a kid.

[Barry the Nomad]

HA! Yeah, I was having a good run on centipede some weeks ago. I was just burning through each level, and luckily hitting all the spiders. Good times.

sort of related: my grandparents have a Centipede cocktail table that I'm trying to secure for myself.

looks like this:

[Centrale]

I used to play Pitfall as a kid, but it wasn't until years later that I read about it and learned that traveling underground moves you three screens at a time, as opposed to traveling above ground.  Really a groundbreaking (pardon the pun) game.  And its sequel introduced checkpoints.

[Barry the Nomad]

I never knew one could travel to the left, until I played it last night.

[Emmett The Crab]

I never knew one could travel to the left, until I played it last night.

Shoot, that was my secret weapon!

[Barry the Nomad]

Here's the supposed loophole I mentioned earlier with the Pitfall challenge:

You're able to issue a challenge to friends that asks them to survive as long as possible in a game, but in Pitfall the first screen has no obstacles. So technically, wouldn't you be able to simply leave the game on until the clock runs out and then win the challenge? I don't think score is displayed, only time survived.

[Emmett The Crab]

I thought about that when I got your challenge, but decided it would be pretty lame to win your challenge that way.

You could also swing on a vine for 20 minutes.

[MadeManG74]

Hmm, this is sounding like fun. I might have to set up Gameroom sometime soon for myself.

[Barry the Nomad]

Next weeks games: Asteroids, Time Pilot and five more!

I noticed that there is now an Activision arcade room theme as well as a Pitfall theme. Unsure if that came free with downloading pack 003 or if it came with buying Pitfall. Either way, though, the Pitfall room is very cool.

[Barry the Nomad]

For those checking for Game Pack 004 and not seeing it in the marketplace, I have good news and bad news:

The bad news:
It looks like Game Pack 4 was not released to the marketplace

The good news:
Because the Game Pack 4 data was sneakily already in Game Pack 3! So if you have 3, you now have 4.

I bought 'OINK!' and 'Keystone Kapers' both because they're a lot of fun and because their mascots are free today and are extremely funny. I now have a cop chasing a pig in my arcade, or a pig chasing a pig.

'Mega Zone' is actually pretty cool, I might pick that one up the next time I add points to my account.

[crackdude]

This is CONFUSING.

[Barry the Nomad]

If by confusing you mean my above post, simplified version:

Pack 004 was secretly bundled with Pack 003 and the Pack 004 games "unlocked" today so they are now in the in-game shop.

[crackdude]

Ah, that's better :D

[Barry the Nomad]

Yeah, I booted up this morning and didn't see the pack so I browsed a friend's arcade and noticed that they had Keystone Kapers. So I "ran" over to the shop and found all the games already there.

Bit odd that they wouldn't advertise that there is no need to DL pack 004. At first glance it looks like they dropped the ball on releasing the pack.