August 3rd 2009 10:34 am PT

Hmmm….tempting, but TBH, it should never have been 1200pts in the first place.

I wish it was 400 points, like the Ikaruga deal of the week. Then I would have bought it for sure.

Agree with the others. Price tag for this one was too high.
Same price as Ikaruga were for the deal of the week should be great BTW.

800 points for a year old port of a 20 year old game? What a bargin!

2 arcade classics with redone 3D graphics switchable on-the-fly with classic 2D graphics along with other features for 800 MS? Even the 77 people who rated it with the new ratings system doesn’t think it’s bad…

Very, very tempting, but again, it shouldn’t have been 1200 in the first place (same can be said with tozai’s other xbla title, lode runner)…
Just might pick it up this week…

ditto the above
this deal should be 400 seeing as this was way overpriced, but hey goes with the common trend on the arcade. The crap is overpriced while the good stuff is way overpriced. aka PASS

I would have pulled the trigger for 400 points, but for 800 points I think I’ll pass this time. Glad to see a arcade game this week though.
This game should have been 800 pts from the start. Terrible pricing on these games, and only b/c they are over 250 MB in size. To me the large size of arcade gamees is getting to be a NEGATIVE off b/c my 20 GB HDD has less than 1GB of room left after IL-2 and Madden demos.

please no more DLC, only aracde deals of the week!

Ouch had to buy this the first day it came out due to me loving it too much, wish it was this cheap when I bought it.

I’m with you XRH – I had to have it, but it sure did sting at 1200. Oh well – Love the games anyway.

Not really a deal. It should have been 800MSP to start with. And what’s the point of reducing prices on old DLC for only a limited period of time???. If it’s an old title with falling sales then surely a permanent reduction is better for business?. I think the Marketplace marketing staff live in some alternate reality fantasy world. Reduce an old game like this to 400MSP and just about everyone will buy it. Look at how well Ikaruga did at 400MSP a couple of weeks back.

Tempting, loved the original but this should have been the launch price.

Why not add more games to the “Arcade hits” list of 400 MSP arcade games, its a bit stale at the moment!

“And what’s the point of reducing prices on old DLC for only a limited period of time???. If it’s an old title with falling sales then surely a permanent reduction is better for business?”

I’ve been stressing this for the longest time. A majority of DLC found on XBL is a waste of server space and permanent markdowns would benefit all parties. For example, most of these 2+ year old games now retail for less than $20, so you’re going to tell me that people are likely to pay a minimum of 1/4-1/2 the cost of what they payed for the entire game for one item/level? The same logic can be applied to some of these XBLA games, where you can find them in retail compilations and such. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

I’m considering getting this at 800pts because not only is it an opportunity to show MS that we’re more willing to buy games when they’re sensibly priced, but because I’m a huge shump fan as well.

Original price was too high, I would have purchased day one at 800 pts. I’m tempted now, but there’s a ton of quality titles coming out that I’m playing at the moment, I’m tapped. I may buy it and wait until the other “must buys” of the summer have slowed before I give it a play, just to take advantage of the lower price.

Wow, I can´t believe there´s so many shmup haters. Come on, I can agree 1200 points was an high price (although you get two games with both remade graphics and classic ones), but for 800 points you should get it IMO. If you don´t like this kind of games, then don´t complaint.

Developers should have put first R-Type for 800 points and then R-Type II for another 800 points. Most people wouldn´t have noticed the move and wouldn´t say “it´s overpriced”. Same goes with Sam & Max, even at 400 points per chapter, they would have made 2400 points, and nobody would have started saying that 1600 points was an high price.

It´s a pitty I already have this, I would have bought it again, being the only really good horizontal shmup on XBLA. I wish Gradius was here too.

Or just download Aegis Wing for the already-discounted price of “free”. Waiting for the budget-priced Perfect Dark Zero DLC to come next week, just to insult us even more.

This should have been 800 in the first place, as should Lode Runner, and so this deal should be 400.
When I saw this was on offer I was tempted to get it, especially considering I like shumps, so I gave it another trial but it just isn’t very good! Tozai’s a crap developer.

i would get it for sure for 400-600 points, 800 is too much for this one.

Yeah I saw that too FunkyCD. Good to see they did the same price drop for TMNT this week… before it’s even been released! lol

I would buy it at max 600 points.. There is better 800 point games out there. This game should’nt have costed 1200 points in the first place.