Classic Game Room HD – FINAL APPROACH for Atari 2600 review

Classic Game Room HD reviews FINAL APPROACH for Atari 2600 from 1982 by Apollo games. Play as an air traffic controller and safely (chuckle..) guide planes in for a landing. You take control of an airplane using the curser and then send it off in a direction of your choosing as you manually guide other [...]

Classic Game Room HD – LEFT 4 DEAD for Xbox 360 review

Classic Game Room HD reviews LEFT 4 DEAD for Xbox 360, also available for PC. From Valve, the brilliant group of humans who brought us Portal and Half Life 2, comes Left for Dead! Zombies, zombies, rah rah rah! It’s 28 Days Later meets a video game made to feel like 28 Days Later with [...]

CGR: ROCK BAND 3 Demo preview from E3 2010

Classic Game Room talks about the Rock Band 3 demo from E3 2010 and talks about what experienced musicians can expect with the new game from Harmoix. This is a look back at the MTV Games booth where 7 people played Rock Band 3 for a demonstration. They used a keyboard (keytaur!), two backup singers, [...]

Classic Game Room E3 Report: Nintendo 3DS and Flying Camera Overhead

Classic Game Room reports from the Nintendo Conference where the Nintendo 3DS was announced. CGR was able to briefly play with a 3DS and it’s the real deal. True 3D without the glasses, it’s like you’re peering down into the screen because it has depth. It looks surprisingly cool and will blow away many skeptical [...]

Classic Game Room HD – 100 CLASSIC BOOKS for Nintendo DS review

Classic Game Room HD reviews 100 CLASSIC BOOKS for Nintendo DS from Nintendo and Harper Collins. The portable bookshelf for your Nintendo DS filled with 100 classic novels like Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, Wuthering Heights (in semaphore?), A Tale of Two Cities, Frankenstein, The Time Machine, Black Beauty, [...]

Classic Game Room HD – TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED Xbox 360 part 2

Part 2 of 3. Classic Game Room was the FIRST classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999. Returning in 2008 with new episodes, Classic Game Room breaks out a review of TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED for the Xbox 360 video game console. The 360 comes alive with this amazing sleeper hit from 2007, [...]

Classic Game Room HD – NEO-GEO CD console review

Classic Game Room HD reviews the SNK NEO-GEO CD from 1994. This CD version of the amazing Neo-Geo AES plays many of the same games in CD form. Plagued by awful loading times thanks to the 1x speed CD drive in the game system, the NeoGeo CD is the least popular Neo Geo out there [...]

Classic Game Room HD – ATARI 5200 Controller review part 2

Part 2 of 2. Watch in high definition! Classic Game Room HD reviews the infamous ATARI 5200 controller for the Atari 5200 video game system from 1982. This analog controller with keypad is notorious for having problems nearly 30 years after its release. The innards fall to pieces, buttons stop working and the [...]

Classic Game Room HD – TIME SPLITTERS 2 on Nintendo Gamecube

Classic Game Room HD reviews TIME SPLITTERS 2 for the Nintendo Gamecube video game console. Thie Time Splitters 2 review shows gameplay from the game and explains why the Timesplitters series is one of the best video game series ever created. Cortez is back and badder than ever in the sequel to the [...]

Classic Game Room HD – VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 for Sega Genesis review

Classic Game Room HD reviews VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 for the Sega Genesis from 1996. This 2D version of the popular Virtua Fighter 2 is very different yet very similar to the polygon-laden Sega Saturn version. The moves are similar, as is gameplay. A few characters are missing and the visuals are dramatically different but the [...]