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Classic Game Room Videos 2023

Classic Game Room Videos 2023

Mark tested the waters for a another season of Classic Game Room on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. These 2023 videos combine traditional CGR elements like gameplay and direct-CRT recording combined with 4K video, enhanced audio mixes, and some cool game re-reviews like Zaxxon. Even though some viewers loved this return to the classic format, in the end, the show proved too expensive and time-consuming to produce for a market overrun with live-streaming and TikToks. 2023 would be the final full season. "At some point, I tired of giving videos away for free, losing money, and hearing endless complaints from YouTube viewers. I think the 24th year was solid. Perhaps, in another universe, it would have done really well. The show absolutely had to move to Blu-Ray or pay-per-view, which is what we tried to do as a last gasp in 2024, but it wasn't meant to be. You can't charge for something that viewers expect for free, but you also can't give it away for free. So it's kind of an impossible situation..."

"Technically, I really enjoyed filming the CRT monitor with a 4K camera. That's something I tried to do back in the 2010-era, but it never looked as good. The modern gear made the production look incredible, and I think the addition of the Omega Ronin music added a lot of style to the videos as well."

Classic Game Room Year 24 (2023)

Experimental Shorts and TikToks (2023)

Mark enjoys producing art, music, and experimental videos. Before (and during) the 2023 run of Classic Game Room, he tinkered with short-form videos for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The CGR format never fit well into the short-form videos, and the music stuff was time-consuming to make, but some neat stuff came out of the CGR studio in 2023.