January 5th 2009 3:00 pm PT

Sounds like the old Carmen San Diego games… isn´t it?

Hmm. Three straight weeks of absolute garbage on Live Arcade. Excellent.

Well that’s a shame.

I Spy with my little eye….. a over priced game…

Just watched the trailer on Xbox.com. Looks a bit interesting. Have to try the trial first at least.

FU**EN Silverlight!!! I can’t view the pics or watch the movie here at work….It does look like a pass though. M$ you continue to let me down.

ghey

Red Dragon: why is it a shame? This is what XBLA is for.

DarkBlades25: it isn’t overpriced.

Not a good start for the year.

Where’s R-Type?

Is this like, “Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?”

Man it’s been a while since there was a new XBLA title I wanted to play. So many good titles announced too…

At least my wife and 3 year old daughters likes these types of games. Guess that’s what they’ve been going for lately.

ok,ok,ok where on Earth is R-type, arkanoid live and space invaders extreme?

3 weeks in a row with this crap. give us a gamers game. not this casual BS. where is Arkanoid? R-types? DoDonpachi? Outrun? KOF98? Gridrunner?

Good band, looks like a bad game.

wow. nearly every post negative with only one blind buttkiss. guys need to take the hint. we dont want this crap on arcade. stop it.

Really? The Live team really needs to rethink some of these arcade decisions. Crosswords then this? Why not a casual game one week then a hardcore the next? I’m dying for another arcade game to play. I don’t care what it costs, just give me something decent to play.

Aw. It sounded a whole lot like the old, good Carmen Sandiego games from the description, but the video looks much different. Guess I’ll give it a try but not getting my hopes up just yet.

@Madeira Steve88

Yeah, let’s get those out as well as the new Gridrunner and OutRun.

I’m also still waiting for a new decent racer. All the racing games on Live have … well, left something to be desired. Like, say, a racing game! Something like Ivan Ironman Stewart’s Super Off-Road or Supersprint would not go amiss.

Two straight dissapointing weeks. Puzzle Arcade was a quality title.

Jet Set Radio Future on XBox Live Originals = when?

Comenzamos mal el año, que horror :S

This is nice, actually, but I want PEGGLE!

I picked up R-Types (R-Type and R-Type II) for PS3 from US store
and we’ve got Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands coming to the Wii
this year. Xbox arcade is dying from lack of content and all
this shovel-ware

What a pile of crap,even if it was free i wouldn’t download it.
Come on MS we have had enough of the crap how about a good game for a change

I agree… bring on Peggle! (I will try this though, I think my son will like it a lot)

Look at you all crying and whining like a bunch of babies. Get a life and realise that the world does not revolve around what you want and there will be some people interested in this game

Some quality titles at great prices, Microsoft.

Can’t wait for Virtua Knitting for 1200 Microsoft Points with the Xtreme Crocheting Pack for a reasonable 800 Microsoft Points.

skate 2 demo…..that is all…

YUCK! I will not be downloading this!

You really gotta tell somebody over at Microsoft that having to install Silverlight to view screenshots on Xbox.com is patently ridiculous.

The same goes for viewing screenshots in Flash, too.

RDeal said:
“What a pile of crap,even if it was free i wouldn’t download it.”

Says the guy who bought Brain Challenge

I don’t know what all the negative comments were about. This is probably the only arcade game I’ve been interested in since Braid. Compared to similar stuff on PC or DS, 800 points is a great price. I for one can’t wait to buy it.

Stop calling popular casual games “garbage”. Interpol is one of the best hidden object games – the PC sequel has been out.

Sometimes, I hate kiddies who think anything that doesn’t have Master Chief or Marcus Fenix in it is lame.

“This is nice, actually, but I want PEGGLE!”

It’s coming soon – supposed to be sometime January 2009.

I hate to say it, but my wife LOVES these types of games (as does her mother) and may even buy herself some MS Points just to download it… The availability of this type of game may do well to bring in more of the casual/non-traditional gamers.

As for me, I’d rather have R-Type!

Is this a Worldwide Release because on the Austrian Xbox Site they say that we get Zombie Wranglers this Wednesday.

Lol I’ve been sitting on 5550 points for awhile now. Hmm so It’s one of those old school point and click games. Meh *continues to horde MS Points*

Interesting title, I am intrigued.

Huh. The thing that made me lose faith in PopCap now comes to XBLA.

Seriously. Is there really that much interest in Eye Spy that they feel the need to crank out 80 different versions of it?

I’m all for “casual” games, but not if there this cruddy.

Mr major nelson can you talk to microsoft and ask them to put out a good game or a studio out there i cant wait for march when magic the gathering comes to xbla though!! cant wait.. but still want a good game to make up for time.. -.-;; i have 700 points and more to come if you put up a good one on the marketplace.

I dont think i have spent any ms points for about 4 months now
looks like this week isnt going to change that

its either been crud games for 800 ms
or overpriced 1200 ms games that i wont buy

@r3dreck

That is exactly where my mind when. I saw the headline and thought it was some sort of rhythm game featuring music by Interpol which would have been an instant purchase for me. Now I’ll just play the demo and likely delete.

I don’t know what everybody’s complaining about, this looks like it has potential. Just have to wait for the demo…

LOOK AT THOSE STILL IMAGES! WOW!

I’ll buy it, the wife will enjoy this one. Thanks for letting us know. I haven’t really checked for new stuff on live, since NXE. Just takes too long to load, on the system itself. I just check this site.

This looks interesting. I’ll definitely grab the demo but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have reservations about point-and-click with a controller.

PEGGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at the top 20 selling XBLA games of 2008. How many casual shovelware games do you see in there? One, A Kingdom for Keflings.

Apparently Microsoft must hate putting out XBLA games that people actually buy.

Can we get Peggle already??????

In Europe comes tomorrow this Game: ZOMBIE WRANGLERS
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Ask773SU8

my wife will love this game I hope it has some easy achievements for her to get

Zombie Wranglers looks terrible too. Like Fur Fighters mixed with Luigi’s Mansion only rubbish.

It looks like a good casual game. Sometimes I need a little something that isn’t too challenging…

Can we have more Pop Cap games for like 400 pts? I’d buy a tonne of those if they were packaged together…something like that? Please?

In all seriousness 800 pts should be for xbox games… I have games that I’ve bought because of the backwards functionality, but now M$ has quit doing that because they are slowly trickling them out for you to clog your HD with and have to buy a newer larger drive.

I’m not trying to be angry or sarcastic…but really what is going on here? These titles are 5 dollar titles. 10 dollar titles should be like Full Throttle and Dig and System Shock 2 and things like that… and for the love of god update the backwards compatibility list as Xbox software and hardware is essentially dying come February…

Anyone remember when Arcade use to release…you know… fun games, good games, games that were worth paying for. Oh and at times reasonably priced. Any chance of seeing that arcade again?
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And whats with this Community Games? Is this like a test run? When do we get the real version? With the fun and good games?
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So far the whole NXE WILL BE AMAZING thing has flopped for me. Sure the new dash is nice now that I got use to it but everything else still is same old useless, unfun, overpriced crap. And all MS seems to do is come up with more features that cost more money and then they say how its all for us…how is it all for us when it cost us money? As it is I am paying for Live when I don’t want 99% of these useless features anyways! Stop giving me MORE crap when I don’t want the original crap to begin with!
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And lastly lower your prices! I swear if this country goes into a depression Live will still stay the same because MS is to dang cheap. The only have price breaks on stuff that no one really wants or stuff that teeny boppers care about. Lame. Does anything from MS ever work right or not rip you off…ZUNE ANYONE? lol.
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BTW this is in no way meant to be towards Major Nelson who is the only guy I like from MS.

So you look at things trough a magnifying glass and then you win… sounds like hours of fun…. I’ll pay 60 MP.

eh its 800 i think ill pass

@jonah falcon: Do shut up. We aren’t all kids. I can play crap like this on the touchscreen at the bar. It’s pretty apparent that most folks on these boards aren’t too happy with the arcade releases as of late.

Pass.

rastansaga: Xbox arcade is dying from lack of content and all this shovel-ware

Uhm, no. I don’t think so.
It took man-years of work across three continents to give us the Summer of Arcade, and that’s *5* phenomenal games. Don’t tell me you’re done with Street Fighter already?

If you can do more, and better, buy an XNA kit and get cracking. Otherwise, good day sir.

This game looks good, just not my type.

@ all the people complaining: YOU DONT HAVE TO BUY IT. believe it or not, some people enjoy these games.

And lol @ people thinking MajorNelson’s blog comments represent XBL as a whole.

Wow this is really bad. This is an old game as well. Some click and find game horrible! There are tons of those on website like reflexivearcade.com. Once youve played one of them youve seen them all…

Hope this isnt a trend because there is lots more shit games where this one comes from.

@Anon 5 & Helvedeshunden

I want OutRunners Twin!! Its like the ‘FUNNEST’, non-realistic driving game I’ve ever played. http://www.weinerd.com/images/Used%20Sales%20Page%20revised/dec%2019%20part%202/Outrunners%20main.JPG – THIS (version) is the ONLY racing game I’d EVER purchase a steering wheel and vibrating video game chair for! Daytona USA comes in a close 8th, but it is only fun in multiplayer to me.

@rastansaga
Since you are a shooter fan (and I have not completed much digging) have you ever played Life Force on NES? Hmmm, just checked the wiki and it is actually on the PS1 as Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus. I never knew until now, but that is awesome, a ‘possibility’ of it coming to XBLA. Though I do not know how well it would stand up in current times.

I have no problem with these kinds of games being released, I just wish (once again) that they would get to releasing multiple titles a week so that we all have a choice. I would love to see them release one classic arcade, one casual arcade, and one unique release a week. It would satisfy all and make for much happier sounding boards.

Wow, Point’n'Click is considered a non-gamer genre now? Really, this is something only kids or people who only pretend to be seasoned gamers would say. This does not mean the game couldn’t be bad, but the comments on it here are just so full of prejudice and non-gamers calling one of the most classic genres of gaming non-game.

Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos, interesting. Myst-like but ‘easier’? (Now that I can actually see the screenshots – only high quality video works, low quality does not). My sis will love this for it is more her puzzle solving speed.

Though I do feel ‘[insert feeling]‘ (not sure of the word I feel ‘slapped in the face’?), but THAT magnifying glass would have been SO USEFUL in Puzzle Arcade’s 1000 Piece Classic Puzzle on EXPERT.

We need games like Worms or bomberman

More 800 point titles – whatever.

Really, raise your hand if 800 points for EVERYTHING now makes you SICK…

/raises hand

Nice to see Gears finally “fixing” itself – right, like they “fixed” the first GOW MP shotgun circlejerk. This is what I am tired of now. Half finished Multiplayer (BUT PLENTY OF OVERPRICED DLC!), “puzzle games”, “indie games”, “community games”, and “casual games”.

Let me guess – next week will be a puzzle game, or something with cute characters in it, or some magic indie game that the creator will complain about being not priced high enough…

…So then they price it at 1200 points and claim that their game “matters” at that price. Which is why I DO NOT OWN ANY PA GAMES and Geoff HAD TO GIVE ME BRAID FOR FREE IN ORDER FOR ME TO PLAY IT. Oh, and HOW LONG did it take to patch Castle Crashers? MONTHS? HALF A YEAR?

Games For Windows Live is more thrilling than the 360 right now. I honestly want achievements for the PC Street Fighter IV just so I do not have to play it on my 360. Thank the maker Capcom is going to save Spring for us with GOOD GAMES.

XBox 360 – But wait, do not forget the nearly 300 point Street Fighter pinball table, the 100 point level packs, and overpriced themes to replace the ones that WORKED FINE before this NXE rubbish.

See Darwinia+. That will be something.

Warrengonline: Life Force is known as Salamander in the EU. I’ve not played the NES conversion, but I own the arcade PCB [I own Gradius PCB as well]
Both superb shooters. Konami released a remixed Gradius for the Wii download service. It is stunning if you’re into that sort of thing. It’s games like this that Xbox arcade needs IMHO.

looks like a carmen sandiego clone, I love it. This will be my first XBLA purchase in over a year

@rastansaga
I agree, Galaga Legions and AstroPop were a good start, but yes, they do need more good shooters. I’ve been hoping for Tyrian by Epic MegaGames back in the day. (http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/525/Tyrian.html) I’m not sure how I had stumbled upon it, I think while looking for Jazz Jack Rabbit another game needed on XBLA.

why couldnt raiden fighters come to xbla and why did ms disapprove of dodonapachi coming to xbla? no arcade ports they are so insane, look cant u see we want those type of games stop putting opinion that u say are from us when it isnt.

This game is actually kind of fun and entertaining. I like to play multi-player with my girlfriend.