XBLA When's Days: May 14th, Assault Heroes 2; May 21st, Penny Arcade
Release for May 14th: Assault Heroes 2
Current Titles:
titles in blue= Backwards Compatible
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3D Minigolf
Aegis Wing
Alien Hominid
Arkadian Warriors
Assault Heroes (soon: Assault Heroes 2)
Asteroids / Asteroids Deluxe
Astropop
Band of Bugs
Bankshot Billiards 2
Battlestar Galactica
Bejeweled 2
Black
Bliss Island
Bomberman Live
Boogie Bunnies
Boom Boom Rocket
Brain Challenge
Bugs of War
Burnout 3
Carcassonne
Castlevania- Symphony of the Night
Catan
Chessmaster
Cloning Clyde
Commanders: Attack of the Genos
Contra, Super Contra
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex
Crimson Skies
Cyberball
Crystal Quest
D, E, F
Defender
Dig Dug
DOOM
Double Dragon
Dreamfall: Longest Journey
Eets: Chowdown
Every Extra Extend Extreme
Exit
Fable 2
Fatal Fury Special
Feeding Frenzy
Frogger
Fuzion Frenzy
G, H, I, J
Galaga
Gauntlet
Geometry Wars
Golden Axe
Gripshift
Gyruss
Halo
Hardwood Backgammon
Hardwood Hearts
Hardwood Spades
Heavy Weapon
Hexic HD
Hexic 2
Ikaruga
Indigo Prophecy
Jewel Quest
Jetpac
Joust
L, M, N, O
Lost Cities
Lumines Live!
Luxor 2
Mad Tracks
Marathon: Durandal
Marble Blast Ultra
Metal Slug 3
Metal Arms
Millipede & Centipede
Missile Command
Mr Driller Online Offline
Mutant Storm Reloaded
Mutant Storm Empire
New Rally X
Ninja Gaiden Black
Novadrome
Omega Five
Outpost Kaloki X
P, R, S
Pac-Man, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Ms Pac Man
Paperboy
Pinball FX
Poker Smash
Prince of Persia
Psychonauts
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Rez HD
RoboBlitz -- if they released free multiplayer, would anybody remember this title?
Robotron: 2084
** Rocketman: Axis of Evil
Root Beer Tapper
Rush'n Attack
Scramble
Screwjumper
Sensible World of Soccer
Shrek n Roll
Sid Myer's Pirates
Small Arms
Smash TV
Soltrio Solitaire
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic 2
Space Giraffe
Speedball
SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam
Spyglass
Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting
Street Trace NYC
Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix
Switchball
T, U, W
Tapper
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tempest
Tetris Splash
Texas Hold 'Em
Time Pilot
TiQal
TotemBall
Track and Field
Triggerheart Exelica
Tron / Discs of Tron
Undertow
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
UNO
Wik: Fable of Souls
Wing Commander Arena
Word Puzzle
Worms
X, Y, Z
XBox 360 Arcade Controller
Xevious
Yaris
Zuma
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XNA Developers Beta Games
* Culture
* JellyCar
* Little Gamers
* ProximityHD
* RocketBall
* The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
* TriLinea
Not Out as of April 16th, 2008:
1942: Joint Strike
Aces of the Galaxy
Airburst
Alhambra
Asteroid Cowboys
Axiom Overdrive
Battlezone
** Bionic Commando Re-armed
Blood Bowl
Braid
Buku Sudoku
Butterfly Garden
Castle Crashers
Commando 3
Cosmic Osmo's Hex Island
Crack Down
Crash Dummy Vs the Evil D-Troit
Crash Course
Darwinia
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Dishwasher: Dead Samurai
Doom 2
Doritos Dash of Destruction
Duke Nukem
Elements of Destruction
ESWAT
Eternity's Child
Fable 2
Feeding Frenzy 2
Fractal Jigsaw
Frogger 2
Galactrix
Go! Go! Break Steady
Golf: Tee It Up
Gridrunner
Happy Tree Friends
HoopWorld
Incredible Machine
Jetpack Junkies
Kart Attack
Live Free or Die Hard
Lode Runner
Lost Cities
Marathon Infinity
Megaforce
Peggle
Penny Arcade: Ors Pod
Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball
Plunder
Quake III Team Arena
Radiant Silvergun
Raiden IV
Red Baron
Rocket Bowl (2 games)
RooGoo
Samurai Showdown 2
Sonic the Hedgehog High Speed
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD
Super Ghouls & Ghosts
Talisman
Things On Wheels (formerly known as ToW)
Ultra Bust-A-Move
Vigilante 8
War World
Warlords
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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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It's more work intensive than you might guess.
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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
My days of not taking you seriously have certainly come to a middle.
Nicholas Cage is my hero
My Gamercard
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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400.m$ Tonight, sometime late!
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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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