Mark Bussler is the kind of guy that can review anything and make it entertaining, whether that's video games, the occasional food review or some gaming peripheral. And that's why I've been a "Classic Game Room" subscriber for years. He's got a knack for always finding the good in any given game, and it makes for a refreshingly unique show. CGR is occasionally billed as, "The Cure for the Corporate Review", and that's exactly right; it's very positive. You look at the YouTube landscape these days, and it's one "personality" after another, each one jockeying for attention. These sort of things can get obnoxious quickly. But Mark's got a natural likability, a sense of humor that's a little goofy, partially sarcastic, and pretty much always oddball. He's a lot of fun.
And as a review show, it's wholly effective. He's turned me onto a lot of games that I would never have given a second or even a first glance. And I've reaped considerable rewards from being a regular viewer. And he works across the board, too; he'll do games for systems I've never seen available, and some I've never heard of. Maybe the best thing I can say to someone who's never seen this show is that, you find yourself watching reviews for games you have no intention of playing just to be entertained.
Put simply, this is a guy who has taken his love for video games and turned it into a career (indeed, he's carved the Intergalactic Space Arcade out of some warehouse space in Pittsburgh; he's living the dream!), and he's been promoting the fun of video games for many years. Currently, "Classic Game Room" is in a state of flux as Mark transitions the show from YouTube to somewhere else on the web. Maybe a completely different format. Part of it makes me sad, but change has a habit of doing that. If I'm a fanboy of anything in this life, it's this show, and I'll be a there for whatever he does next.
10/10
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