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.

[6] Crosson moved onto a career in pharmaceuticals,[7] while Bussler would spend the next 8 years producing and directing documentaries on American history, such as Expo: Magic of the White City, and working with actors such as Gene Wilder and Richard Dreyfuss.

Crosson appeared at the end of the show's first episodes, Captain America and The Avengers,[11] where Mark asked him what he thought of the game.

On August 29, 2009, Bussler announced the launch of the Classic Game Room website ClassicGameRoom.net (now ClassicGameRoom.com) on the show's YouTube channel.

Changes would include the shutting down of the show store and its secondary channel CGR Undertow entirely ending production.

During mid-2016, due to declining YouTube ad revenue, Bussler experimented with a premium content delivery system.

On January 19, Bussler announced another new move off on YouTube and supposedly permanently onto Amazon Prime, under the new title of Classic Game Room 2085, for March.

From December 2018, Bussler returned to YouTube (as well as to Instagram and TikTok) with a new show titled Classic Game Room Infinity, which focused on shorter, snappier content.

[20] On April 24, 2019, Bussler announced on Instagram that he had decided to end all video production, and to continue the Classic Game Room brand as a book publisher.

After a year of inactivity, the channel was rebranded as CGR Publishing in 2022 and began posting new commercials for books, as well as episodes of Bussler's podcast.

In June 2023, without making an official announcement, Bussler began uploading new game reviews to YouTube under the moniker.

[4] In 2015, a second film, The Best of Classic Game Room: 15th Anniversary Collection, also directed by Bussler, was released on Blu-ray and DVD.

[26] It has a runtime of 280 minutes and features a collection of videos previously available on YouTube but also includes plenty of exclusive material including exclusive game reviews, an interview with Dave Crosson, a commentary track and more all wrapped in a comedic story arc involving time travel, robots, and clones.

The 90-minute reviews, funded by Kickstarter crowdfunding, would be in-depth analysis of games, covering everything from presentation to controllers, with comical elements.