XBLA When's Days Catch-All (much): The Simpsons Arcade on Feb 3
Going to have to slow down the updating on this one with Max 2.0 approaching the home stretch (Late July-early August.) I'll try to get it in here to update what's up on the XBLA. Budgeting time can be difficult!
Catch-All Threads:
1 vs 100
Battlefield 1943
Monday Night Combat
Section 8
Shadow Complex
Snoopy Flying Ace
XBLA High Scores
Greed Corp
Currently Available XBox Live Arcade & Retail Arcade Titles: January 2012
Symbols, #s, A, B
0-D Beat Drop, 0 Day Attack on Earth, 1942: Joint Strike, 1 vs 100, 3D Minigolf 1&2, 3-on-3 NHL
Aces of the Galaxy, Aegis Wing, After Burner Climax, Age of Booty, Alien Breed Evolution, Alien Breed 2: Assault, Alien Breed 3: Descent, Alien Hominid, Altered Beast, Aqua, Ancients of Ooga, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?, Arkadian Warriors, Arkanoid, Assault Heroes / Assault Heroes 2, Asteroids / Asteroids Deluxe, Astropop, A World of Keflings & A Kingdom of Keflings, Axel & Pixel, Backbreaker Vengeance, Band of Bugs, Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury, Banjo-Kazooie & Tooie, Bankshot Billiards 2, Basement Pool, Battlefield 1943, Battle: LA, Battlestar Galactica, Battle: Los Angeles, Beat'n Groovy, Bejeweled 2, Bejeweled Blitz Live, Ben 10 Alien Force, Beyond Good & Evil, Bionic Commando 1&2, *Black, Blade Kitten, Blacklight: Tango Down, Blazing Birds, Bliss Island, Blood Bowl, Bloody Good Time, *Blowout, Bomberman Live, Bomberman Live: Battlefest, Boogie Bunnies, Boom Boom Rocket, Braid, Brain Challenge, Breach, Bubble Bobble Neo, Breach, Bugs of War, Buku Sudoku, Burgertime, *Burnout 3, Bust-A-Move Live
C, D
Call of Duty, Carcassonne, Castle Crashers, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair,
Catan, Cellfactor, Chessmaster, Chime, Cloning Clyde, Coffeetime Crosswords, Comic Jumper, Commanders: Attack of the Genos
Commando 3, Command & Conquer, Comic Jumper, Comix Zone, Contra/Super Contra, Costume Quest, *Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, Crash Course, Crazy Taxi, *Crimson Skies, Coffeetime Crosswords, Cyberball, Crazy Mouse, Crystal Defender, Crystal Quest, Cyber Troopers Virtual On, Darwinia, Dash of Destruction, Days of Thunder Arcade, Dead Block, Deadliest Warrior & Deadliest Warrior Legends, Dead Rising: Case Zero, Dead Rising: Case West, Dead Space Ignition, Death by Cube, Deathspank & Thongs of Virtue, Death Tank, Defender, Defense Grid, *Destroy All Humans, Dig Dug, Diner Dash, Domino Master, DOOM 1&2, Double D Dodgeball, Double Dragon, Draft Tracker, *Dreamfall: Longest Journey, Droplitz, Duke Nukem 3D, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale
E, F, G
Earthworm Jim HD, Ecco the Dolphin, Eets: Chowdown, Elements of Destruction, Encleverment Experiment, Every Extra Extend Extreme, Exit 1 & 2
Fable 2 Pub Games, Faery, Fatal Fury Special, Feeding Frenzy 1&2, Final Fight: Double Impact, Flock, Football Genius, Fret Nice,
Frogger 1&2, Full House Poker, Fusion Genesis, *Fuzion Frenzy, FunTown Mahjong, Galactrix, Galaga, Galaga Legions, Galaga Legions XD, Gatling Gears, Gauntlet, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, *Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, Gel, Geometry Wars, Geometry Wars 2, Geon Emotions, Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime, Gin Rummy, Go! Go! Break Steady, Golden Axe, Golf: Tee It Up!, *Grabbed By Ghoulies, *Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Greed Corp, Gripshift, Gunstar Heroes, *Guilty Gear X2, Guwange, Gyruss, Gyromancer
H, I, J, K
Half Minute Hero Super Mega Neo Climax, *Halo
Happy Tree Friends, Hard Corp: Uprising, Hardwood Backgammon, Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades, Harm's Way,
Hasbro Games, Haunted House, Heavy Weapon, Hexic HD, Hexic 2, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Hydrophobia, Ikaruga
ilomilo, *Indigo Prophecy, Inferno Pool, *Intellivision Lives!, Interpol: Chaos, Invinsible Tiger, Ion Assault, Islands of Wakfu, *Jade Empire
Jewel Quest, Jetpac, Joust, King of Fighters 98 & 2002, King of Fighters Sky Stage, KrissX
L,M,N,O
Lara Croft & The Kingdom of Light, Lazy Raiders, Limbo, Lost Cities, Lucha Fury, Lucidity, Lumines Live!, Luxor 2, Madballs, Mad Tracks, Madden Arcade, Magic the Gathering & Magic the Gathering 2012, Marathon: Durandal, Marble Blast Ultra, *Max Payne 1&2, Mega Man 9&10, Merv Griffin's Crosswords, *Metal Arms, Metal Slug 3,7,XX, Meteos Wars, Microbot, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, Military Madness, Millipede/Centipede, Minesweeper Flags, Missile Command, MLB Stickball, MLB Bobblehead Pros, Monday Night Combat, Monkey Island 2, Moon Diver, Mr Driller Offline, Ms Pac Man, Ms 'Splosion Man, Mutant Storm Reloaded, Mutant Storm Empire, N+
Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade, NBA Jam, NBA Unrivaled, NBA 2K10 Combine, Neo*Geo Battle Coliseum, New Rally X, Nin2 Jump, *Ninja Gaiden Black, Novadrome, Omega Five, Otomedius Excellent, Outland, Outpost Kaloki X, OutRun Online Arcade (Outrun de-listing in 2011)
P,Q,R
PacMan, PacMan Championship Edition, PacMan CE:DX, Paperboy, Panzer General, Path of Go, Peggle & Peggle Nights,
Penny Arcade Episode 1&2, Perfect Dark, Phantasy Star II, Pinball FX & Pinball FX2, Pinball FX2: The Marvel Collection + DLC (Captain America, The Fantastic Four) Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball, Plants vs Zombies, Poker Smash, Polar Panic, Portal: Still Alive, Power Up Forever, Prince of Persia, *Psychonauts
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords/Galactrix, Puzzle Arcade, Puzzle Chronicles, Puzzle Quest 2, Puzzlegeddon, QIX++, Quake Arena Arcade (offline), Quake Arena Arcade (online), Raiden Fighters Aces, Raiden IV, Rainbow Island, Raskulls, Raystorm HD, Red Faction: Battlegrounds, Rez HD, Risk: Factions, RoboBlitz, Robotron: 2084, Rocket Bowl, Rocket Knight, Rocketmen: Axis of Evil, Rocket Riot
Rocky & Bullwinkle, Roogoo, Root Beer Tapper, R-Type Dimensions, Rush'n Attack, Rush'n Attack Ex Patriot
S
Sam & Max, Samurai Shodown 2, Schizoid, Score Tracker, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Scramble, Scrapmetal, Screwjumper, Sea Life Safari, Secret of Monkey Island, Section 8: Prejudice, Sega Rally Online Arcade, Sensible World of Soccer, Serious Sam First & Second Encounter, Shadow Complex, Shadow Assault: Tenchu, Shank, Shinobi, Shotist Shogi, Shred Nebula, Shrek n Roll, Shuggy, *Sid Myer's Pirates, Small Arms, Smash TV, Snoopy Flying Aces, Soltrio Solitaire, Sonic the Hedgehog 1,2,3 & Knuckles, Sonic 4 Ep:1, Sonic Adventure, Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection, Soul Calibur, South Park: Let's Go Tower Defense Play, Space Giraffe, Space Invaders Extreme, Space Invaders Infinity Gene, Spare Parts, Speedball, 'Splosion Man,
SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam, Spyglass, *Spyro: New Beginning, Stacking, Star Raiders, Star Trek DAC,
Strania: Stella Machina + DLC, Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, Street Fighter II Turbo HD, Streets of Rage, Street Trace NYC, *Stubbs the Zombie
Sudoku, Super Meat Boy, Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix, Swarm, Switchball
T,U,V,W
Tecmo Bowl Throwback, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Turtles in Time, Tempest, Tetris Splash, Texas Hold'Em
Texas Cheat'Em, The Fancy Pants Adventure, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, The Undergarden, Things on Wheels, Ticket To Ride, Time Pilot, TiQal, TNT Racers, Torchlight, TotemBall, Tour de France, Tower Bloxx, Toy Soldiers, Track and Field, Trenched, Trials HD, Triggerheart Exelica, Tron & Discs of Tron, Trouble Witches Neo
Undertow, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Unbound Saga, Undergarden, UNO, UNO Rush, Vandal Hearts, Vigilante 8, Voodoo Dice, Wallace & Gromit Episodes 1-4, Warlords, The Warriors, War of the Worlds, War World, Watchmen: Chapter 1&2, Wik: Fable of Souls
Wing Commander Arena, Wits & Wagers, Wolfenstein 3D, Word Puzzle, Worms & Worms 2, Worms Armageddon
X,Y,Z
XBox 360 Arcade Controller, Xevious, X-Men, Yars Revenge, Yaris, Yie Air Kung Fu, Yo-Ho Kablammo, Yosumin, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Decade Duels
*Zapper, Zeit 2, Zeno Clash, Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Apocalypse 2, Zombie Wranglers, Zuma
*denotes Xbox Original title
Unreleased & *Rumors*
A
Aero Cross, Airburst, Aleph, Alhambra, Asteroid Cowboys, Auditorium, Axiom Overdrive
B
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja, Bastion, Bean, Blobbies Wars, Bloodrayne: Betrayal, Bonk: Brink of Extinction, Boulder Dash, Buccaneer, Burgertime HD
C
Capsized, Captain America & The Avengers, Charlie Murder, Chocolatier, ChuChu Rocket, Cletus Clay, CodaChain, Cosmic Osmo's Hex Island, Crack Down, Crash Dummy Vs the Evil D-Troit , Crash Course, Cribbage, Crimson Alliance
D
Days of Wrath, Defenders of Ardania, Dragon's Horde, Dream Chronicles
E, F
Eclosion, *Einhander, Emergency Hospital, Ender's Game, ESWAT, Etch A Sketch, Eternity's Child, Fez, Firepro Wrestling, Fractal Jigsaw, From Dust, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Fuzzee Fever
G,H,I,J
Gas: Fuel for Fun, Go! Go! Rescue Squad, Gridrunner, GTA: Chinatown, Gridrunner Revolution, Guardian Heroes, Incredible Machine, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, JetSet Radio 2, Jetpack Junkies, Jimmie Johnson's Anything With An Engine, Joe Danger, Joe & Mac- Cave Ninja
K, L
Karate Champ, Kart Attack, Keystone, King of Fighters 2002: Ultimate Match, Kodu, Lead & Gold, Lost Cities, Louisiana: Mystery Cases, Luxor 3
M, N
Mage Dice, Mahjong Tales, Marathon Infinity, Megaforce, Metalacolypse, Miners Wars, Monster World IV, Mortal Kombat Collection (MK 1-3,) Mystery of Whiterock Castle, NBA Jam, Necromachina, Nexuiz
O,P,Q
Oasis, The Office, Orcs Must Die, Path of Go, Phantasy Star II, Phineas & Ferb, Pinball Hall of Fame: the Gottlieb Collection, Pipe Mania, Project Draco, Puzzle Chronicles, Quarrel
R
Radiant Silvergun, Raycrisis, RBI Baseball, Renegade Ops, Resident Evil 4 & Code Veronica, Retro City Rampage, *Ridge Racer, Rock of Ages
S
Saints Row Drive-by (cancelled), Samurai Shodown, Sandscript, Sentient, Shank, Sine Mora, Skulls of the Shogun, Sonic the Hedgehog High Speed, Sonic 4: Ep2, Spelunky, Spongebob Gravjet Racing, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, *Super Ghouls & Ghosts
T,U
The Path of Go, Tide of Iron, Tinker, Toe Jam & Earl, Toki, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, Trine 2, Tumble Pop, Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon
V,W,X,Y,Z
Vandal Hearts, Vertigo, War Angels, Warlords, Warp, Wings of War, Wizard's Tower, X-Men, Zeit 2, Zombie Apocalypse 2, *Zombie Revenge, Zone of Enders HD
De-listed, Cancelled, Other:
XNA Racer was previously to be an XBLA title, but is now a Kinect title to be available at full retail.
Saints Row Drive-By cancelled on all platforms, no reason given. Metalocalpyse cancelled, no reason given. Yaris was de-listed, the reason given was that it was a "limited release" game, but the cynic in me points to that fact that it was the worst title available on the service (even though it was free.)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Re-shelled is being de-listed in the US due to expiring license, probably the same situation that Double Dragon hit, although the Double Dragon on XBLA was mired by suck. The Expiring License Situation also has claimed several Midway & Atari titles: Tapper, Robotron, Defender, Smash TV, Tron, Discs of Tron, Cyberball 2072, Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
The Mortal Kombat license has been picked up by Warner Bros, and they are releasing Mortal Kombat 1, 2, and 3 as a bundle XBLA title in the Summer of 2011.
OutRun Online Arcade being de-listed due to Ferrari license not being renewed. Live Free or Die Hard has to have been cancelled by now. Pinball FX has also been de-listed, but Pinball FX2 has brought the tables available for PBFX1 to PBFX2, so they are still available.
Other de-listed titles include: Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Lost Cities, Totemball, EA Sports Football Ticker
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About time we get some new Arcade games. Frogger is cool, but where is Lumines and Small Arms? Those are the XBLA games I want.
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Looks like my girlfriend is going to take over my Xbox 360 on August 9th... Pac-Man!
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Has anyone ever heard of Cloning Clyde? I never have.
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According to Joystiq, it is from the developer of Outpost Kaloki X. Other than that, I know nothing about it.
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Cloning Clyde
Looks pretty fun actually.
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It'd be better if it was Stem-Cell Sally. Or Aborted Fetus Alan.
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I like the idea of XBLA Wednesdays. I'm still amazed how slowly games trickle on to XBLA - how hard is it to port Paperboy? Or any of the classic arcade games under discussion? Yeah, Street Fighter 2 has issues with net play that have to be resolved, but a lot of the games under development do not.
I've listened to Major Nelson's shows on this issue, but c'mon. XBLA should be overflowing with goodness by now.
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Okay, but let me say this - there are emulators all over the net for old arcade games/consoles. My understanding is that the way back compat is handled, they basically use the same emulation code for multiple/all games (not clear on whether there's one or many Xbox 1 emulators under the hood). Why isn't there just, at least for ported arcade games, one or two master emulator programs that they use for many games? Maybe Paperboy is a one-off, and for some reason is so unique that it doesn't work on MAME or the like, but with all those emulators on the net having been made for free by people working on it in their spare time, it seems strange to me that there should be any hold-up on non net multiplayer ports. New games, I can understand. Don't ship the the Smash Brothers clone until it's ready, I'll wait.
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I have MAME as well, with the 43 1/2 versions of Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat betas and ROMsets, etc..
Maybe they're just cleaning up the code for the XBLA?
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There's also licensing rights and making it worth paying for. Why buy Street Fighter 2 on Live when its free on emulation? Because you can beat up your friends. Why buy Frogger? (Good question, Im not planning on it)
Who can tell me who has the Paperboy license? (Thats a rhetorical question, don't answer, Lobster)
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Emulating is NOT what Xbox Live Arcade is about.
Gauntlet isn't emulated. It's a new client that hooks into everything Xbox Live is about - friends, multiplay, scoreboards, support for HD resolutions, etc.
It's the same thing with any old game brought to Marketplace. It's not emulation. It's writing a new version of the old software. And that includes a sh*t-ton of seemingly little things (like, say, changing all assets that refer to the arcade buttons and making them reflect the Xbox 360 controller) that seem minor enough by themselves, but add up into a large amount of work that non-developers never think about.
And it's about QA and passing rigorous certification processes that many MAME emulated games would fail, even though they're "good enough" (for free, at least).
Efforts like MAME get things 95% there, but it's the last 5% that's as hard as everything else before it.
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I stand corrected, then. Still, I think the release rate has been slow.
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THAT, I will not argue over. I am surprised that there aren't more games hitting Live Arcade - not by way of speeding up output from those contributing, but by way of getting MORE contributors. We keep hearing how there are 100+ studios/publishers developing for Live Arcade, but they must have mostly gotten started pretty late, because what we've seen so far has been from a small group of publishers.
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I do know it's keeping Digital Eclipse busy.
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Cloning Clyde vids
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I forgot how difficult Frogger was/is.. The online mode is extraordinarily laggy for a game this old (see: graphically simple.) I guess it really does take a substantial amount of time to get on-line components to work with old games. Probably also points to why Street Fighter is not out yet.
Cloning Clyde looks OK, but I fear the Peter Pack Rat (atari) look, and the control looks fairly floaty. Hopefully it's a fun romp.
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Has anybody stumbled upon Cloning Clyde in the Marketplace yet?
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I'm downloading the trial version now.
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Am I the only one that is struggling to wait for Galaga? They better have done it up right.
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Not struggling, but really looking forward to Galaga, Defender, PacMan, Contra.
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I'm really hoping that Galga on Live includes a version of Galaga '94. Both are great in their own respects.
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I bought Cloning Clyde. It's pretty entertaining. The sense of humor and general just silly ideas involved in the game overcome the fact that I normally don't play platformers.
I needed something different from all my other games which all involve shooting things or driving things, or sometimes both, but not really anything else. This one seems to have at least temporarily filled that void in some small way.
I still can't wait for August 2nd.
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I needs to put down the MAME Galaga-Galaxian-Galaxian PacMan hack-Galaga Hack- etc... get me some achievements ftw..
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400pts tonight, sometime late.. tomorrow maybe?
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I really wish they'd also include Galaga 88 in the Live Arcade package. The original is great, but Galaga 88 was the pinnacle achievement for those games in my opinion. Mostly because your ship didn't move so damn slow in 88.
I'm sure it's just going to be the original, but hopefully they haven't created another disgusting half-emulation, half-crappily-updated version like they did with Frogger. It'd also be nice if you could switch on options in the main menu to add some of the hacks to the game that are available in MAME (for unranked games of course.) Here's hoping...
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Anyone pick up Galaga? How is it?
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It's pretty good, the emulation is near-perfect. The ommission of Two-Player mode is a shame though.
25 minutes into playing it, however, most of the achievements were unlocked. But, is Galaga!
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I dont have the burden of nostalgia on me with this game. I tried the demo and it was probably the first time I'd played this game specifically. I actually thought it was going to be one of the side scrolling space shooters.
The demo was a yawn for me. Saw no reason to drop a fiver.
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Are a lot of people here looking forward to the Street Fighter 2 Release? It was a little before my time, but it would be nice to have a decent fighter.
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