Classic Game Room | |
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Genre | Video game review, sketch comedy |
Created by | Mark Bussler David Crosson |
Directed by | Mark Bussler |
Starring |
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Theme music composer | Tom Myers |
Opening theme | "Flock of Cowboys" |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 16 |
No. of episodes | 2,796 |
Production | |
Producer | Mark Bussler |
Production location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Editor | Mark Bussler |
Running time | Varies, usually 2–9 minutes per episode |
Production companies | Inecom, LLC |
Original release | |
Network | FromUSAlive |
Release | November 7, 1999 October 23, 2000 | –
Network | YouTube |
Release | February 28, 2008 January 19, 2018 | –
Network | Amazon Prime |
Release | March 2, 2018 present | –
Network | YouTube |
Release | December 31, 2018 April 24, 2019 | –
Network | YouTube |
Release | June 28, 2023 present | –
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Classic Game Room (commonly abbreviated CGR) is a video game review web series produced, directed, edited and hosted by Mark Bussler[1] of Inecom, LLC. The show reviewed both retro and modern video games along with gaming accessories, pinball machines, and minutiae such as gaming mousepads and food products.
The show broadcast its reviews via video-sharing website YouTube under the screen name 'Lord Karnage' until late 2013, when they moved to Dailymotion, citing issues with YouTube. In May 2014, via the Classic Game Room's Facebook Page and YouTube channel, it was announced that the show would again be posting episodes on YouTube. It also moved onto Patreon and Amazon Prime, before being cancelled in April 2019. After a four-year hiatus, the series returned to YouTube as Classic Game Room 2085 but was short lived due to declining viewer numbers not justifying the cost of making episodes. The series currently continues as Classic Game Room: The Podcast, where Mark talks about various aspects of games, music and general pop culture using his own signature flair of humor, insights and sometimes fantastical "real life" space stories.