Arcade games

Razing Storm came out in 2008 and our local Dave and Busters got it a few months ago. The game is pretty much Gears of War meets Crisis Zone

Classic Game Room HD reviews MINE STORM for Vectrex from 1982. Mine Storm is a built in game for the Vectrex (at least for my unit) and is similar to Asteroids with elements of Geometry Wars. It plays on the Vectrex with vector based graphics and uses a screen overlay to give some style and show the button layout for the Vectrex controller

Classic Game Room HD reviews EARTH DAY for iPod from publisher Chillingo. This arcade style game has elements of Robotron 2084 mixed with Asteroids, if you never moved around the screen at all. Enemies (asteroids and space ship thingies) converge on you from all sides trying to invade earth and it’s your job to fend them off and save our beloved home world

Classic Game Room HD reviews VIRTUA COP 2 for the Sega Saturn! Released in the arcades in 1995 and on the Sega Saturn in 1996, Virtua Cop 2 is one of Sega’s most entertaining and fun arcade games. This awesome light gun game works with the Sega Saturn light gun (I’m using the Sega Stunner light gun) and plays exactly like the arcade game where you point and shoot at bad guys

Classic Game Room HD reviews DEFENDER (again!), this time for the Playstation 1 video game console, or PSX, PSone, PS1, etc…. This is from the Williams Greatest Arcade Hits collection which also includes arcade emulated copies of Robotron 2084, Joust, Sinistar, Bubbles and Defender 1 and 2!! Digital Eclipse was involved with this version (you should know them from the Xbox Live Arcade games on XBLA). Defender was released in 1980 in the arcades and is regarded as one of the best horizontal …

Donkey Kong game is semi-playable–allowing Mario to carry on smashing and jumping barrels for a time for he spontaneously dies. For more see the documentary The King of Kong A Fistful of Quarters, the story of Billy Mitchell, the man who set out to beat the world record high score for Donkey Kong held by game legend Steve Wiebe at the famous Funspot arcade

Watch in High Definition! Classic Game Room HD reviews POPCAP ARCADE VOLUME 2 for Xbox 360.

Classic Game Room HD reviews XENOPHOBE for the Nintendo Entertainment System NES video game console from 1988! This unique mulitplayer side scroller saw many versions on home consoles after the arcade 3-player machine became popular. This 2 player game from Sunsoft (the arcade machine was Bally Midway) loses much in its translation to the NES. Is it still an enjoyable game to collect and play today?

Classic Game Room HD reviews the original GOLDEN AXE for the Sega Genesis video game system. This is one of the most iconic games from the 16-bit era and this Megadrive review of Golden Axe shows gameplay footage from this amazing 2D side scrolling beat em up hack and slash from 1989. Originally created as a brilliant Sega arcade game, Golden Axe saw popularity with its Sega Genesis release in ‘89.

Classic Game Room HD reviews GORF for the Colecovision video game console. Gorf was released to the arcades in 1981 by Midway and this amazing port of the game found its way to the Colecovision in 1983