March 5th 2009 3:00 pm PT

Sweet! “Finally” on several of these games.

That surprise XBLA title better be PEGGLE!!

Looking forward to Lode Runner though…

I think they were saying it’s running 6 weeks but there’s seven games listed so there will be 2 one one week. There is no Secret game. I would have liked to see Peggle in that list though.

Great annoucement, but it needs Peggle Fever. We need it and I need it.

But Outrun and Dishwasher are straight up must buys. Not sure about the rest, I’ll check out the trials first.

murph17…. I think you misunderstood. there are 7 titles mentioned above but in a 6 week period… so one week you going to get 2 titles…. no surprise there, except for which week it will be.

I’m holding out for Darwinia+, and later Battlefield 1943.

Murph..theres no surprise title. The surprise is what week they give us two titles to choose from.

Lode Runner!

Definitely looking forward to FLOCK.

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai

WooHoo!!!!! :):)

Prepare your 7 x 1600msp guys.

Larry put The Dishwasher first but Hasbro Family Game Night is first out of the gate. That’s just mean! :p

Looks like that list is in alphabetical order and since HGN is coming first, I’d guess that list has nothing to do with what order everything is released.

I’m really looking forward to Outrun and The Dishwasher.

OH HELL YEAH!!! The Dishwasher FINALLY!!! *Bought! Outrun Arcade *BOUGHT! Puzzle Quest: Galactix *Bought! Uno Rush *BOUGHT!

So stoked about Dishwasher and Lode Runner. One question: Where’s Peggle?

$%#^!. my bad. when the heck are we getting some Peggle action? Joystiq thought it would be in March since Popcap Arcade Vol. 2 comes out on disc at the end of the month.

finally! UNO RUSH WITHIN 8 WEEKS! *BLISS AND JOY*

Does that mean Peggle is next week’s game? PopCap has stated that the game would be on XBLA in “mid-March”. Since it’s not on this list that starts on 3/18, are we to assume it will be next week’s release?

Puzzle Quest!!

What about Peggle?… If this game does not appear this wednesday… maybe we will never see it… -_-

Dishwasher and UNO RUSH!! Yess!

Family Game night has the potential to be a classic casual live arcade game if it plays well and is fairly priced . Most of the other titles look great also – the worst part is going to be the waiting !!

So Peggle’s either next Wednesday, or not for another month and a half.

I think Peggle is a safe bet for next week’s game. The Popcap Compilation #2 with it on it comes out 3/31. It would be very strange for them to have an XBLA game on-disc, but not up for download. Since its not listed under this promotion…I’m thinking it’ll be next week (doesn’t matter to me, though, I’m getting the compilation).

Outrun Online, Puzzle Quest Galactrix and Dishwasher are all day1 buys for me. Dunno about Uno Rush, may give it a shot.

Lode Runner is awesome. Where are Jumpman and Miner 2049er?

Just like Castle Crashers, the best arcade game (The Dishwasher) is probably going to come out last.

nice one Alvinium. put me down as +1 for Miner 2049′er

YES!!! Puzzle Quest!!! Dishwasher looks good too!

Hmmmm…where’s Banjo-Tooie. It’s supposed to be an April release.

I just found out that PopCap Volume 2 is going to have Feeding Frenzy 2, Heavy Weapon, and Peggle – surprisingly I own none of those so gonna save some cash and get the disc.

Uno Rush! THANK YOU!

sounds like awesome fun!

Glad to see Dishwasher FINALLY make it to XBL

Battlefield and Quake waiting until “Summer of Arcade”?

Since when is a crap title such as “Hasbro family game night” considered a blockbuster title? This promo probably just includes games that paid to get advertisement. Microsoft becomes more of a joke.

I will be buying Hasbro Family Game Night, UNO Rush, and maybe Outrun Online Arcade.

Peggle comes out next week, March 11th.

This 6 week thing starts the 18th

Yeah, finally PQ: Galactrix! Hopefully its in the top part of the release cycle.

you know … I’ll never understand why you can’t just put things up on the marketplace as they are ready. why does it have to be on a schedule that MS dictates? Once cert is done put it up

Uno Rush! Just need to justify the points now… :\

The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai – “DOUBLE CHECK!”

Flock – “Hmmmm… possible Check”

Outrun Online Arcade – “CHECK!”

UNO Rush – “CHECK!” (plus a few friends, check, check, check, check…)

Status: Online Party Mode: Now Enabled! Finally some arcade games that have been long awaited and about to be delivered. Hasbro Family, I’ll look and see.

Thanks for the post Major Nelson… Tell ‘Jeannie’ “Great a good job!”

I’m all about Lode Runner. Will probably get Outrun as well. The rest I’m not sure about. Glad to see I’ll be playing Lode Runner finally in the next month.

Hmmm. Four guaranteed sales at 800. Perhaps one more if the demo is good. One sale at 1200. Zero at 1600.

400? Grabbing them all for the hell of it.

we require peggle updates…

Hey Major, you know we’re in a recession, right? That means that these games should be no more than 800 Points each.

@Fufz

I’m afraid so…

Damn I was hoping Battlefield 1943 would be in this list. Oh well.

and where is Banjo Tooie…
I was so hoping for early april, it seems we will get it later than sooner…

i don’t get it? blockbuster titles? but beeing me reading everything about everything it seems like blockbuster is a pretty loosely used term by microsoft….

Wheres Radiant Slivergun, Space Invaders Extreme, Marvel VS. Capcom 2 and Arkanoid Live. Now if that was the games being released i would have purchased every week. but alas i will try those games out at least.

W00t! Thanks Major!

some great titles really looking forward to Outrun, hope its 4000msp

WHERE IS PEGGLE DELUXE??! HOW COULD IT NOT BE PART OF DAYS OF ARCADE!! THIS IS MADNESS!!

Peggle next week then? I sure hope so!

Lots of people hyped for Peggle? I hope for next week too. :3

Oh my god, finally! I’ve been wanting The Dishwasher for so long!

Yay, whoo, sweet, finally, great, hell yeah, woot, until all you whining little b@tches complain about the prices.

Surely Peggle is the surprise. The Popcap site said that Peggle would be released on XBLA in March. I just hope they are right.

I can’t wait to play Outrun Online Arcade :] Look awesome!

Time to start taking bets on how many of these are gonna end up being 1200 points or even 1600! I’d say at the very least Outrun OA and Puzzle Quest, but I’m sure it will end up being more.

Dishwasher – Awesome – I can see it being 1200 but it would sell so much better for 800.
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Flock – I know nothing about it, can’t comment on price.
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Hasbro Family Shovelware Wii Game – Get stuffed. Probably gonna be 800 though 400 is more suitable. You can polish a turd…
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Lode Runner – I’ve only heard about stuff getting removed from this. – Remake so should be 400 but will be 800.
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OutRun Online Arcade – Great racer – Third console release, only has half the courses, should be 800.
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Puzzle Quest In Space – Already seen this game, it’s called Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the blah blah blah. – Original game with expansion is 1500…
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UNO Rush – UNO on crack sounds alright to me – In the NXE preview this was listed as 400, that had better stick.
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@Carnage, just stop it. You’re the new Warren for crying out loud. If the games weren’t overpriced then the majority of posters wouldn’t be complaining week after week and making the topic one out of five stars!
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By the way Microsoft, care to release some Braid sales figures? And a comparison to launch week’s?

Banjo-Tooie?

So maybe Peggle is next week?

Lode Runner was my favorite game growing up. Will likely buy Hasbro Scrabble too. And Puzzle Quest of course.

Better save up for some points! I’m buying a $2100 Mac this month so I dunno where I’m gonna get the cash! (But I’ll find it!)

Uno Rush, Outrun, and The Dishwasher! Yes!!

maybe we’ll get Banjo Tooie next week?
that would be amazing!
Rareware said game would come out in april but with this 6-week schedule, that fills entire april and no sign of it!

@Fufz: Will you stop complaining about the 1600 MSP?? Microsoft did not decide the price, Warner Brothers did. It is the same price on PSN and PC.

Anyways, finally we are getting quality games.

For anybody that was hoping for Battlefield 1943, I’m pretty sure that’s a summer release.

As for UNO Rush, the trial is available on this month’s OXM disc & although it may be because it was only a Single Player trial (and Single Player UNO is dull) but I was not a fan.

The emphasis on speed took away the fun casual feel of the original & being able play multiple cards in one turn took away the enjoyment of being able to mess up other players when they were down to almost no cards.

Isn’t Flock a web browser?

I’m still a tad confused. According to link below from x360a.com (full credit goes to x360a) there will be 7 Hasbro games at 800 a pop. So will all 7 Hasbro games be released the 18th or will they trickle out each week. It just seems like 7 800 point games in 1 week is a quite a bit. Not complaining just trying to budget points. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Forgot the link sorry – http://www.x360a.com/news/news-2322-Family-Game-Night-Achievements-Explained.html

I’m totally stoked for OutRun. Puzzle Quest Galactrix is mad fun, although much, much harder than the original. Just got my copy off Impulse a couple days back and I’m still not sure if I love it or hate it.

I just hope the prices return to the 800MSP range. 1600 is showing up way too often for my taste.

Now I am confused about the Hasbro one…from what I had read in OXM, I thought the “Family Game Night” was ONE XBLA title that had the 4 games that released on the Wii (Battleship, Sorry Sliders, Connect Four, and Scrabble (I think)), then other games were going to come out, supposedly one a month, including titles that were NOT on the Wii version (hinted at Life, Risk, Boggle, and some other classics). After reading that linked article, I am very confused about this, as I can see spending some points on a classic like Battleship, and maybe Scrabble, but there is no amount of work/ enhancement you could convince me was done to justify $10 for CONNECT FOUR by itself! In other news…if Peggle doesn’t make it next week, it looks like I will be playing in on my DSi before XBLA!

Yeah Killer Scuzzy J, unfortunately it’s true. The initial game loader is free, but you can only play trial versions on it until you pay $10 for EACH INDIVIDUAL GAME as expansion packs. So in order to play the full versions of all the games for it, you have to spend $70 on it!!! Wow… just wow.

From IGN:

Hasbro Family Game Night is an a-la-carte release — gamers can download the main Hasbro Family Game Night application and then pick which one of the many Hasbro games they wish to download and play. The initial download is free, and users can play trial versions of the digital board games to help find the ones they want to buy.
Genre: Board Compilation
Local Play: 4 Versus
Online Play: 4 Versus
Also Available On: PlayStation 2, Wii
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Expansion Packs:
Hasbro Family Game Night: Battleship
Hasbro Family Game Night: Boggle
Hasbro Family Game Night: Connect Four
Hasbro Family Game Night: Scrabble
Hasbro Family Game Night: Sorry!
Hasbro Family Game Night: Sorry! Sliders
Hasbro Family Game Night: Yahtzee

so…the only difference is that we know whats coming for the next 6 weeks?
is Out Run Online Arcade ..online ONLY?..if so,i’m out

wheres my south park arcade game??

Don’t worry Microsoft, I’ll buy them all.

And what’s even worse is that the PS2 and Wii retail disc versions of this have all the same games and extra modes on one disc… for only $40. While they might not have the online multiplayer and achievements that the 360 version has, is it really worth $30 extra for that? It would have made a little more sense if they had charged somewhere around 550-600 points for each individual game.

Wow a 7 game release on the 18th then. Thanks for the info Macph1st0!!

http://www.capcom-unity.com/robbyz/blog/2009/03/05/flock_featured_in_xbox_live_arcades_days_of_arcade_promotion_release_dates_announced

^Flock is confirmed for April 8th.

So theres one game you don’t have to guess which week it’ll be showing up.

Scrabble may be a blast. Was really hoping for space invaders extreme and arkanoid.

great sounds good, but they are all going to be at the rip off price of 1200points………………………………….

AUTRALIA DONT GET EXCITED HASBRO IS US ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

No scrabble outside the US apparently…….

I definitely plan on picking up Hasbro Game Night and Loderunner.I’m 35+ and going through a nostalgic stage..what do you want.

@Exu
Market Pricing Genius at work. Heh heh. Also, Flock is about aliens that herd sheep (that is just the basics). Think Lemmings + Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, kinda, but not quite. You use your ship to navigate (herd) the sheep to a destination. I have not played it, but saw a clip (very short one) and read a little about it in Game Informer back when E3 was going on. It looks cool as a puzzle type game. I’m going to give it a look when the trial comes out. I know which ones I want and listed them. But as old games go where’s: The Simpson’s Arcade (with 4 player online play) X-Men Arcade (with 4 player online play – yeh-yeh, I played the 6 player version all the time, but because of the special screen, yadda yadda yadda, jargon, jargon it can’t be 6 player simultaneous. The Dishwasher and UNO Rush are 100% buys on my end. I’m a fan of OutRunners Twin in the arcade and I remember when OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast came out on Xbox and it hardly got a peep – that was not a good sign and caused me to postponed my Xbox360 purchase. Ridge Racer 6 made up for it though.

Good to see the Dishwasher is finally making it’s way to the arcade. Fans have been screaming for it (not to mention bugging the games lone developer about a release date) for several months now. Good to see we can finally knock it off and start enjoying the game.

On a different note, Major. Surely you (and hopefully the voices of the gamers and woeful economic times) have enough pull with the powers that be to make sure the games on this list stay affordable. I don’t have a problem paying 1200 points for the games that deserve it. A prime example on this list being the Dishwasher, due mainly to the fact that it was painstakingly developed by just one man over a very, very long period of time. But also because of it’s amazing visual style, frenetic gameplay, and the experience that I’m thinking will be a first ever for the Xbox Live Arcade. Likewise, games such as Braid, Castle Crashers, SSF2THDR, and maybe even Portal: Still Alive have had similar values to offer casual gamers.

That said, I do have a problem paying too much for games that don’t come with that kind of “street cred,” to put it crudely. Prime examples being games are Death Tank, 5th grader, Banjo-Kazooie, and R-Type Dimensions. I’m not saying these games aren’t decent in their own right. But they’re not the first of their kind. They’ve all been done before, in one form or another. And they definitely don’t carry with them anything unique or revolutionary for their respective genres. They’re money makers. Granted that some of them are also fan service. But that’s no excuse to up the price.

I’d like to think that the general gaming population shares this opinion. But I think that’d be foolhearty, to say the least. That still doesn’t justify the no-longer-so-recent trend of overpriced arcade games.

I have to apologize to the other gamers for the wall of text. But this is something that I do feel needs to be discussed in an open forum. This site, thus far, has been the most prominent forum for such a discussion. And it’s also probably the best place for gamers to have their voices heard. Perhaps, Major, you’d consider adding message boards to your site. So the members of your site can discuss not only this issue, but anything gaming related. Just a suggestion.

Is RBI baseball ever coming out? Definetely a couple of the 7 listed I have my eye on, but really holding out for RBI baseball!!!

@ TommyMcShamrock: Hello Mr. Party Game Extreme. Damn, you even have Rock Revolution.

I can hardley wait for the Hasbro, Puzzel quest and uno rush. Ohhhhh Yeahhhhhhh

Uno rush and hasbro and a few others cant wait!! Yay for us..

So no scrabble for the UK then ? Why ?

I think I am the only one NOT excited for Peggle

Can’t wait for UNO Rush!!

Peggle and Quake 3 please

Where’s Space Invaders Extreme???

=(

Hey Murph, there are no surprise titles. They are releasing 2 games in that list on the same week.

I don’t see why these game can’t be free cause they should have had these games available when the nxe update hit they are really getting everybody ready for the new spring update for the xbox live primetime feature hopefully it will still come out in sometime in the spring and also what’s the point of buying a new uno just update the old one to uno rush.

I want outrun and KOF.

So the Scrabble part of game night is US only !
I won’t be parting with points for this unless the price is discounted for other regions – Why the hell should we pay the full price yet get half the game – can’t see this being a good world wide seller now – most good gaming folks won’t swallow that for a second .

Just cos you llive in the UK like I do, you can still have US arcade games, you can still download them, noones stopping you.

Great now all i need to do is stock up on Microsoft points

well now im worried, I have a strange feeling we wont get dishwasher as Australia still doesnt have community games, cmon MS how hard is it to setup community games, we have been promised since september last year that its coming, and every other major country has it (UK, US) but not us…..I want to give you money and buy community games, any ideas on when OZ will be getting community games…

Kind of looking forward to ‘Lode Runner’ but the one I really want to get is ‘Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers’.

http://www.stainlessgames.com/games/go/52/

once again, Banjo-Tooie was confirmed by Rareware to come out in april, can you contact your sources major nelson?
it would be nice to get an update, this is my most anticipated title for arcade.

Can’t wait for Uno Rush and a few of the Hasbro titles like Yahtzee, Boggle, and Battleship. I heard 800 pts each game on Hasbro, is that right Major? Even if they are 10 dollars each I’ll buy them cause I’ve been waiting a long time for these to come to the arcade. Thanks for the good news Major and not sure if you keep an eye on your old school but the Orange beat Marquette today

UNO Rushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!yeaaaaaaaaaaa

What would be interesting to know is whether. during the six weeks of “Days of Arcade”, we will get no other (i.e. unannounced) Arcade games. I would think so, but it would be good to get it confirmed from an official source. In this case, once the “Days of Arcade” have begun, we know that we can not expect any other games during this period.

still no 1 Vs 100 then?

UNO RUSH!
So excited it’s finally coming out.

I was hoping to see 1 vs 100 soon, but this list is good also.

Not going to bother if its like the last one

Any games over 800 wont be getting my cash

Awesome!

Peggle Deluxe for PC recently had a massive price cut, down to £2.55 for those in the UK and $5.00 for our American cousins.
But that’s not all, enter the code ‘blitz1′ at the checkout to halve the price to £1.28/$2,50!
http://www.popcap.com/games/peggle/
(Not sure what it is in €s but I’m sure a European friend can log in and check…)
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So, Microsoft, about that XBLA version…

“Like the Summer of Arcade, but bigger…”

Um really? I actually think that the Summer of Arcade’s lineup was leaps and bounds beyond this. But hopefully there are many fans who have been awaiting these games. I just wish that anything on this list jumped out at me as something even worth demoing. That’s kinda disappointing considering I just bought 1600 points that I’d love to use to buy something worthwhile.

To each their own.

Loderunner – awesome. That takes me back…

While we are on the topic of games worth a re-make in glorious HD (and the Miner 2049′er suggestion was a good one). I’d like too see:

Bubble Bobble.
New Zealand Story.
Crystal Castles.
Rainbow Islands.

I’d also love to see WipeOut but I guess there are complications with that one.

Outrun next please! Been waiting so long for it!

Uno Rush is most welcome