Classic Game Room - Retrospective (1999 - 2019)
534https://www.facebook.com/xenonxyanide
Intro/Outro music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_6hQy4elsyHhCOskZo0U5g
Classic Game Room/Lord Karnage/Tome of Infinity/Turbo Volcano/80s Comics/CGR Publishing:
https://www.youtube.com/c/classicgameroom
CGR Undertow:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGRundertow
CGR Comics/CGR Infinity:
https://www.youtube.com/c/CGRInfinity/featured
CGR Overboard:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGRoverboard
CGR Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGRgameplay/featured
CGR Trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGRtrailers/featured
CGR Pinball:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGRpinball
CGR Garage/Seatropica Webcomic:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SeatropicaWebcomic
CGR Toys:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CGRtoys
Pat Contri & Mark Bussler Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDaIn9218t0
SuperGainsBros & Derek Buck Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wWBkuVLEPs
Banjo Kazooie - Nuts & Bolts Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDk8w9M3mlQ
gonewithmd83 (Original Video & Channel Now Deleted):
https://www.youtube.com/gonewithmd83
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Music Tracks Used in This Video
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Lotus II Turbo Challenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CQF7e_SCA
Fear Effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgwPgXj1GEc
Destruction Derby OST:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdN3yHGZR-hIuiiDSnNBXss0kuM2C4XGM
Chemical Plant Zone (Foxhunt and VGR Remix):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaCKZgc1WDU
Romulus 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziX_f7rdFD4
Cygnus Rift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiiPXuW5jOY
Classic Game Room was an online video game review show made by Mark Bussler which started in 1999, making it the first web game review show.
The first incarnation was known as The Game Room was a subscriber feature on the website "From US Alive". Presented by Mark Bussler and David Crosson, it was mostly a straight review show of then-current games and a few retro titles.
Though it gained something of a cult fan base, it was a bit too ahead of its time (most internet connections were still on dial-up) and folded in 2000.
Fast-forward to 2007: Mark Bussler uploads a few episodes on a little site known as YouTube to promote a DVD documentary about the show.
The videos became much more popular than he expected, and in 2008, he decides to revive it as Classic Game Room HD with backing from the Inecom Company.
Classic Game Room is a standard review show without much in the way of bells and whistles, with most of the humour coming from Mark musing about the inherent Fridge Logic of the medium, or just letting loose about nothing in particular.
The series is hosted on YouTube here, though due to controversial changes made to YouTube's content ID system in late 2013, CGR only released new episodes on the former official site, until a return to YouTube a few months later when some of the worst Content ID snags were worked out.
Due to declining revenues brought about by Content ID claims and changes to YouTube's revenue system, Mark announced in November 2015 that he would be closing the series regular run by the end of the year and continue it as a hobby.
However, Mark reconsidered this after a large fan outcry and started a Patreon campaign in January 2016 to continue the show under the name Classic Game Room Mk3.
In 2018, Mark announced that Classic Game Room was moving exclusively to Amazon Prime under the name Classic Game Room 2085 beginning in March of the same year, with Patreon donors having access to the show if they don't have Amazon Prime subscriptions. Instead of just being another name change like Mk3, 2085 is stated to be a straight-up reboot with higher production values.
On April 24, 2019, Bussler announced on Instagram that he had decided to end all video production, and to continue the Classic Game Room brand as a book publishing company. It has distributed books on video games, video production and American history.