Before the official announcement happened there was a leaked interview with Back explaining what Game Room is all about, and the transcript is below:

Back video interview

Well, Game Room in some ways is sort of a retro approach. And it’s interesting, there’s a generation of people — sort of my advanced, mature age [laughs] — who grew up with a set of games like Centipede. They look almost like casual, fun games today — at the time they were high-end, edgy games — and so Game Room is the idea of bringing that back to the market. And bringing that to a very broad audience. And I think what we’re gonna find is that when people can get 30 or more of these games, they’re gonna love it for the experience. And it’s not just you and I who are gonna love it, even the people who would call themselves “hardcore gamers” are gonna say “Oh wow this is fun!” In a retro way. It’s sort of like my daughter going to watch Journey. I’m like, this is a band that was playing when I was growing up. And she thinks it’s a cool band and I like the music. And I think you’re gonna have the same phenomenon with Game Room. We’re gonna enjoy the games and they’re gonna think it’s cool. I think that’s very powerful.

Game Room is a virtual arcade which is apparently customizable in which you play very old but classic games, over 1000 of them in the next 3 years to be exact. Paying for the Game Room you will have two options, you buy the game for 240-400 Microsoft points, or you can pay 40 MSpoints to play the game once you know to get that old arcade feeling.. I don’t understand why they just don’t release all those games on XBLA instead of releasing the weird thing but that’s just me. It almost looks like a cartoon version of Sony’s Home that hopefully is without lines to play the games. The Game Room video is below what do you guys think?

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