Game Room bringing its A-game.

As huge fans of retro, PEOWW was eagerly awaiting the Xbox Live Game Room.  The idea of playing our fave coin-op ROMs over Xbox Live with online challenges, highscore tracking and achievements had us harder than Super Contra.

Unfortunately after their first week of releases (a mix of terrible arcade games, Intellivision filth and pointless fucking Atari 2600 roms) we knew that Game Room was doomed.  The occasional pathologically argumentative retro forum shut-in idiot might have claimed differently, but anyone with any nous knew we weren’t going to be getting anything good on there for a long, long time.  If ever.  Our dreams of challenging other Peowwsters to high score challenges on Bomb Jack were in ashes.

Well, the team that brought us this traversty – Krome Studios – are finding that their careers are also in ashes with the closure of their Adelaide office and several layoffs.  They still had time to give us Atari 2600 versions (read: abortions) of Checkers and Pinball this week though.  So that’s something.