As many of you know, I am a huge fan of the arcade. That being the case Microsoft's recent announcement of game room for the PC and Xbox 360 had gotten me very excited. Now I could recreate the feeling of playing against a bunch of friends on ****c games in a virtual environment.

It seemed to tick all the right boxes cross format support for my PC friends, I could play my games on the pc when I wasn't in the house ,1000 retro games to play and customisable rooms.

And then today we get the pricing $3(240 ms points) for each game, but if you want to play it on PC as well its $5(400 ms points) but that's ok because you don't have to buy the game right? Wrong if you want a single play its 50 cents (40 MS points and not the rapper) that's twice as much as it would cost to play it in an actual arcade.

With the 1000 games that would come in at a grand price of $5000 dollars for you to play all these retro games at home. The worst part is when you bring over a friend to play games in your room the friend will actually only be able to play it if they also own the game.

This for me is a huge problem because you can buy an actual arcade machine with many of these retro titles available to play in real life for around half of this price and your friends can come over and play it without having to buy their own.

Oh and for Microsoft I designed you a mascot.

nice huh?

To bring you back to my original question, have you ever been mugged by a rich man? if you buy game$room you will have been.