Atari 2600, arcade games coming to Xbox Live "Game room"

[phreakindee]

This was just announced officially at CES. Microsoft has a new "Game Room" deal on Xbox Live which is supposed to bring back the spirit of arcades of the 80's! It looks quite awesome I'll say. Anything with virtual Adventure dragons roaming around my customized character sounds great to me. You can see the trailer below:

Xbox Live Game Room - Return of the Arcade in 2010! (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/06/xbox-game-room-bringing-arcades-back-to-xbox-360-and-games-for-w/)

[Oobgarm]

Interesting. I could go for this.

[guitargary75]

Hmmm...

[Queen Of The Felines]

Please have achievements for Adventure, please have achievements for Adventure...

[Gapporin]

Please have achievements for Adventure, please have achievements for Adventure...

20G - Get This Freakin' Duck Away From Me

[MrRoboto19XX]

If executed well, I'll be all over this, this could be great.

I'm just curious if it'll be possible to import our current arcade-era live games into the arcade setting, that would be pretty awesome.

[BetaWolf47]

That's... really awesome! One of the 3 should do that for consoles though, kind of like how RetroCopy does it.

[Gentlegamer]

http://achievements.schrankmonster.de/Achievement.aspx?text=Flipped%20the%20Score%20in%2 0Asteroids

[Shadow Kisuragi]

http://achievements.schrankmonster.de/Achievement.aspx?text=Flipped%20the%20Score%20in%2 0Asteroids

Asteroids DeLuxe has this achievement already :)

[Kiddo]

Honestly, I don't see much the appeal of "Atari games with achievements". Perhaps if this does something more grand, like pave the way for things that were once arcade-exclusive like 6-player X-Men or Daytona USA 2 or somesuch... but currently it just sounds gimmicky to me.

[phreakindee]

Here's the first set of games coming this May, out of what they hope to be "over 1,000" in the next 3 years.

1. Centipede (arcade)
2. Asteroids Deluxe (arcade)
3. Tempest (arcade)
4. Crystal Castles (arcade)
5. Lunar Lander (arcade)
6. Jungler (arcade)
7. Road Fighter (arcade)
8. Scramble (arcade)
9. Finalizer (arcade)
10. Tutankham (arcade)
11. Shao-Lin's Road (arcade)
12. Super Cobra (arcade)
13. Red Baron (arcade)
14. Gravitar (arcade)
15. Battlantlis
16. Astrosmash (Intellivision)
17. Mountain Madness Super Pro Skiing (Intellivision)
18. Armor Battle (Intellivision)
19. Space Hawk (Intellivision)
20. Sub Hunt (Intellivision)
21. Sea Battle (Intellivision)
22. Space Armada (Intellivision)
23. Astrosmash (Intellivision)
24. Star Raiders (Atari 2600)
25. Outlaw (Atari 2600)
26. Yar's Revenge (Atari 2600)
27. Millipede (Atari 2600)
28. Football (Atari 2600)
29. RealSports Tennis (Atari 2600)
30. Combat (Atari 2600)

[phreakindee]

Please have achievements for Adventure, please have achievements for Adventure...

They just announced that each game has medals and achievements! Sounds like PSN's game "stamps" which add up to single trophies, or achievements.

Video of Game Room gameplay and achievement talk (http://kotaku.com/5443015/hands+on-with-xbox-360s-acrade+crazy-game-room)

[Famidrive-16]

4. Crystal Castles (arcade)


okay i'm sold

[PapaStu]

Only 90 bucks for single licenses on the first 30 games. I'm in! Screw those 1 buck Atari commons! Those are the inferieror versions.

[FxMercenary]

doesnt playstation home have a Namco arcade you can actually walk around in?

[Bojay1997]

Here's the first set of games coming this May, out of what they hope to be "over 1,000" in the next 3 years.

1. Centipede (arcade)
2. Asteroids Deluxe (arcade)
3. Tempest (arcade)
4. Crystal Castles (arcade)
5. Lunar Lander (arcade)
6. Jungler (arcade)
7. Road Fighter (arcade)
8. Scramble (arcade)
9. Finalizer (arcade)
10. Tutankham (arcade)
11. Shao-Lin's Road (arcade)
12. Super Cobra (arcade)
13. Red Baron (arcade)
14. Gravitar (arcade)
15. Battlantlis
16. Astrosmash (Intellivision)
17. Mountain Madness Super Pro Skiing (Intellivision)
18. Armor Battle (Intellivision)
19. Space Hawk (Intellivision)
20. Sub Hunt (Intellivision)
21. Sea Battle (Intellivision)
22. Space Armada (Intellivision)
23. Astrosmash (Intellivision)
24. Star Raiders (Atari 2600)
25. Outlaw (Atari 2600)
26. Yar's Revenge (Atari 2600)
27. Millipede (Atari 2600)
28. Football (Atari 2600)
29. RealSports Tennis (Atari 2600)
30. Combat (Atari 2600)


I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. There isn't a single game on this list that they should be charging $3 for. I was assuming this was some kind of free addition to Xbox Live Gold or that these would be sold in large packs, but charging this much for games all of us own or could own in their actual original format for less is insane.

[c0ldb33r]

Sounds neat, but too expensive.